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Hi everybody,
This is the last day of the KIDS photo competition i am in run by Oswaldtwistle Mills Shopping Village. I am currently losing by 15 votes but still gaining about 5 a day but second place had 3 votes on Friday and is now on 94 votes! She is a Adult with 1200 competition friends (looking at her profile).
I really needs your help today, if you have voted already thank you, if you have not voted please follow link below to vote for my photo.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE VOTE AND SHARE
END TIME: 5pm SUNDAY 1st September 2013.
THANK YOU.
PS-You need facebook and don't forget to hit the share button.
Thanks David. :dancedog:
https://apps.facebook.com/easypromos...0809/621043216

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Facebook! ah well, that rules me out.

Sorry. I might have voted for the pic, but just what is it about facebook?

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Having looked at the pic...yes..I would have voted for it!

Join our photo comp instead....OK, you won't win any flash prize, but it is still fun.

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would do but they aint having access to my private details like they ask for, Sorry

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Well. Too late.

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I keep well away from Facebook also so no chance of me voting for some one I don't even know.

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facebook.... spawn of the devil...##

John Gibbs: Phone sex Facebook boaster is fired before first day | Metro News

haunt of the numb and numpties

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Facebook is good for some things. Gaming... Groups is pretty good. A mailing list I am subbed to moved to facebook so I haven't much choice but to use it.

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Rob, I wouldn't use it if you paid me....and it gets my goat to find that companies promote competitions but only if you are a FB fanatic.
This means that those of us who can't abide FB are excluded.

I have e-mailed some firms with this observation and so far have recieved an electric toothbrush(ok, it takes batteries) a supply of skin cream(unsuitable for me - but someone will get it in their christmas stocking) some dog treats and a silky scarf.

I think I would take myself off the mailing list and let the company know why!

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I find Facebook useful for keeping in touch with my family - exchanging messages and seeing where they are and what they are 'up to'.

I don't play Facebook games or supply info about myself.
Only yesterday I viewed photos my eldest grandson took on his arrival in Liberia (for work) - so it is useful to me, because I don't use it for 'frivolity'.

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I use facebook for close friends, wouldn't vote for you because I don't know you, post a few things on the site, let us get to know you before you ask for favours from us.

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I admit to joining Facebook a few weeks ago.
I had taken photographs for the Accrington and District Welfare for the blind society when they went on a trip to Rivington Barn and later to Galloways ar Penwortham.
I usually print them off and they are pinned up in the Bank Street rooms but some were sent to the President and he put them on Facebook without asking me.
I joined as "Robin Hood" to have a look at them and see what he had written and within an hour of seeing them "Robin Hood " no longer existed.
That was my one and only forage into the site. I am put of by what others tell me they get up to on Facebook, including broken marriage's and clandestine meetings with the other sex.
Bah humbug, am I getting old and past it?

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I suppose if it works for you then, well and good.

I think I would prefer to find other ways to keep in touch.
I have family in Australia and a brother who regularly works in far flung places.......India, China and Mongolia(both inner and outer)......we keep in touch by e-mail.....he sends me pictures of the interesting places, and the even more interesting, but unrecognisable food.
None of us have considered using facebook to do this.....because we can do it by e-mail.

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I'm kinda with this-you aren't a regular poster , if you were it would be more appropriate to ask for votes on here.

I like facebook for general contact-most people I know are on it, people I don't see often-it is an easy way to keep in touch.

I like it as a place to store photographs as well, and groups,public areas of it are pretty good, especially for help with some of the animal rescues I do.

I don't use my real name or location on it though, or details of past and present employers/schools etc.

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My niece is OBSESSED. Margaret, its obscene. Its all about how many stupid likes they can get. They do "hot or not" videos. She will get people to like her status and then her and her friends will make a video and say if a boy is hot or ugly. I have been joking with her calling her shallow.... here is some quotes

like for a rate and sentance!:* (selective)

ive seriously been sat on my bed for 5 hours waiting for someone to come on facebook, ahha:D

mail me a number and a question and i will answer it!:*

like for a small paragraph:* , bored....

like for a rate of me and **** through mail!:

Like and I will like back

Man. This 5 times a day maybe even more. Sneaks Ipod touch and is on sometimes at 2am.... I am worried this crap is poisoning kids these days

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there are many reasons to join facebook other than what its supposed to be used for(or why they want you to use it)
This is one of them. As far as I know they don't have a data limit for photos like flickr do(of which you reach and then you have to pay) and so makes for a good way to host stuff.

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I use Flickr for photo's and I don't pay for it......this is because I am on BT......which allows me a Pro account with no limits.

I think that facebook has an insidious detrimental effect to many(not all) of the people who use it...and some of them are old enough to know better.

My daughter used to use it for a professional group that she was part of...but no longer uses it at all.(she has been too sick to be interested in anything much)

I don't 'get' the updating of status and such things...and the friends thing...people seem to collect them like some kind of trophy......they aren't real friends and many of them you could fall over them in the street and not know hwo they were.

I cannot think of a single reason why I would use this social networking site.

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Going back to the first post, I see the poster hasn't bothered to come back on site since. Just here to cadge for votes, I guess. We probably won't see him again until the next time he is after something.

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A bit sad that! He professed to be interested in taking photo's...and entering competitions...ah, but then ours isn't offering an Ipad as a prize.

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You have friends on your AccyWeb profile, are they all really friends or just people you know from chatting on here?

Your write your blog on here that anyone can read, how is that different than me changing my facebook status to say what I have done?

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I am on Facebook for keeping in contact with family across the globe -its a good way of sharing things with those you love and are connected to. I regularly chat to my mother and father, sister, son, nephews, neices and old friends.

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The difference is very subtle Neil........and most of the friends on here I would recognise in the street(apart from Westender who has passed on)...and I don't have that many friends on here. I do not accept friend requests lightly (as many will know)
As for my blog.......well, that has lapsed quite a bit recently and is in no way like what goes on on facebook. As far as I am aware, it is available for members to read, but unavailable for non-members(or that was how it was set up)....to my knowledge, Accyweb has nowhere near the same amount of members....and many of those who profess to be members come her relatively infrequently.

Accyweb is also local, rather than global(even though we have some international members)....I think if you went out and about in the world and stopped someone and asked if they were a member of facebook then you would get many more 'yesses' to that question than if you asked 'are you a member of Accyweb'........and if you have to ask these questions, then, I humbly suggest that, perhaps you do not understand the forum that well.

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And that can't be done any other way ?

I accept that if it works for you then all well and good...but it has been badly misused by people for other reasons, and has a poor reputation.
I can do without it in my already busy life.

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The so called misuse you talk about isn't compulsory, I'm sure that if you were to try it you would soon see some advantages and lets face it you would use your account sensibly just as, (a quick stab in the dark and I'll make up a statistic as I'm passing through,) 95% of Facebook users do.
(:thumbsup: )

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or you could just use Skype to keep in touch with the family

oh and by the way if the thread starter does not come back on in the next few days this thread will be deleted as it will be deemed as spam.

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Less.......I like your use of the 95%.

I know the misuse(I didn't call it abuse...and there are subtle differences) isn't compulsory, but it does degrade what many people use as a 'tool'.

I cannot think of one single reason I would use FB, as I can do the things I wish to do, using other means....which I am far more comfortable with.

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As a general rule of thumb, :thumbsup: I think you will find that 95% of the time that I introduce percentages purely as guesswork of course, never with anything factual to back up the statement, 95% will be my favourite estimate of choice, after all if 95% is good enough for 95% of our politicians, then it should be somewhere around 95% close enough for 95% of the general public. (just to clarify one point though), I consider myself to be a member of the 6% that isn't swayed by statistics, I often find them inaccurate!
;)

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I think I would put myself in that percentage too :D

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Youngster or not the simple fact hes made just 1 post,asking fer a favour, speaks volumes to me.:rolleyes:

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I just had another look at this thread and was not very please by post 16 from Restless.

The small part of my text he quoted could be read in many different ways, depending on the mind of the reader.

I will repeat my full post to clarify the matter. I don't want anybody who just reads the small part of the quote to think I am taking photos for immoral reasons.

I admit to joining Facebook a few weeks ago.
I had taken photographs for the Accrington and District Welfare for the blind society when they went on a trip to Rivington Barn and later to Galloways ar Penwortham.
I usually print them off and they are pinned up in the Bank Street rooms but some were sent to the President and he put them on Facebook without asking me.
I joined as "Robin Hood" to have a look at them and see what he had written and within an hour of seeing them "Robin Hood " no longer existed.
That was my one and only forage into the site. I am put of by what others tell me they get up to on Facebook, including broken marriage's and clandestine meetings with the other sex.
Bah humbug, am I getting old and past it?
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Without wanting to sound rude Margaret I think that maybe you don't understand the difference between Facebook and AccyWeb. AccyWeb is an open forum and anyone in the world can read what you write. On Facebook you decide who can read what you write by setting your privacy settings the way you want them.

I will write more personal things on Facebook than I will on here because I know who can read what I write.

One thing Facebook is rubbish at is being a forum. Group discussions on facebook can be a pain in the neck, posts get lost and they cannot be searched for. Selling pages are rubbish for the same reason. Historic discussions are useless on facebook as well compared to a forum.

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Neil, you don't sound rude at all........I am aware that Accyweb is an open forum, but I think that its draw...the number of people who want to read what is posted, are much more limited than that of facebook.....and it is(I would think) much less well known.

I just do not like facebook. There is nothing about it that draws me to it.

I write a blog, but if I look at the hits that many of these ramblings of mine have accrued, it is(in many cases) in low numbers....I obviously do not have much of interest to the cosmopolitan masses....and I don't need any FB friends.

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If I visit the site as a guest, my blog cannot be viewed.

Unless you know of some way to circumvent this....I know you are far mor computer literate than I am...so you may know of ways to do this...but why would you?