To Profile or not.

I have only filled in parts of my profile and agree, sadly have to, with the advice of not disclosing too much of yourself on the net. I have used the Breast Cancer Care forums for friendship, advice and support but some of us were, are targeted with personal messages there.
A number of us received a personal message asking us for our bank details as the person sending us the message wanted us to have some money, a legacy left to help cancer patients. Of course we all knew it was a scam and flagged the message up but it was still not very nice to be targeted. And a few times I have had the odd private message there from someone offering a cure for a sum of money! Breast Cancer Care were, are very quick to act on reported posts and block the user but by then you have been sent, seen the message.

I never realised blued names meant there was a Profile. You learn something every day. Thanks number please.

Rummikub, now that`s a name from the past. One of our daughters and her then husband bought it for us for a Christmas present back in the very early 90s, but I`m sorry to say that neither of us took to it very much. and it ended up at the back of a cupboard, where it no doubt still resides!
Going back to profiling, I`m another nosey beggar who likes to know about folk, so always look where the name is blued.

Thanks Ann I will check that out. I am only on ch 2.

Nan Kate I hope you read the 2 Robert Goddard thrillers which preceded Never Look Back. I do hope I have got this right but I think I am that the original 2 will make sense of the one you are reading.

I play regularly but although I am literate I am definitely not numerate, but don't worry Rose this is a game of luck and skill played with tiles.

It is based on the card game of Rummy where you have a run of numbers (of the same colour) or sets such as three of a kind (same number different colour).

There is something we call a smiley but it is more like a wild card/tile which can be used as any number.

The object of the game is to correctly put your tiles down on the table and to have none left. You interact with the other players moving their tiles and inserting or adding yours.

It has the same addictive quality as GN so be warned.

Oh, it's numbers ...

If I knew what it was I could stand a chance (or not).

What a shame that anyone should feel unsafe on a site like this.

I prefer to think of all the non-profiled as having very mysterious and intriguing backgrounds - retired Mata Haris or Heads of MI6.

I've just googled Rummikub myself - my bid for glory was in 1991, but they still hold the World Championship every 3 years in some very exotic locations. Perhaps we should all polish our tiles and enter a Gransnet champion in 2015. It won't be me - I still had the semblance of a brain back then!

Quite, rosequartz. I think the tr*ll in question (at least, the only one I know about) was actually using information from profiles and sending abusive PMs to some members, though.

Never Ana!!!"

Oh dear. Well I haven't got a profile and I am not lurking under a bridge.

However, everything we post is on the www. So someone somewhere could recognise us.

Goodness, I hadn't realised there had been so many tr*lls knocking about! They must have bypassed me as being too uninteresting!

I have to go Google rummikub

Same here. I always had a profile and photos until a few months ago, but the unremitting influx of unpleasant t***ls made Gransnet feel insecure. Shame.

I used to have a profile and then we seemed to be infiltrated by what I am not allowed to refer to by the "t" word and I took it down because I felt revulsion at the thought of these despicable individuals having any access to my family or private life. I would prefer it if we all had to have a profile as I am by nature a trusting person. This incident made me feel different though

Certainly are Kitty which is why Gransnet is so interesting. There is a safety factor involved for some of us though and I should probably leave it at that.

Of course not Gaga and I for one can respect that others may want/need to keep things anonymous. As I am really nosy, I like to be able to read about people if possible. We are a very diverse bunch, aren't we?

There are reasons for all those who enjoy being part of Gransnet, but for one reason or another, find it prudent not to disclose too much information. It's not necessarily sinister but there could be, and probably are, a number of factors why those of us who keep fairly anonymous on here prefer to do that. There is a story behind every poster! We do not have to disclose the reasons why!

I can understand Nonnie why some people need to keep their anonymity in fact I too have to do that on certain websites.

What I like here at Gransnet is that you can put as much or as little as you like and call yourself anything you want.

I am glad I have found another Rummikub fan - what I like is that every game is different.

I too am a rummikub fan.

Sometimes people need to keep their identity private for all sorts of reasons, I am one of those.

Hello Nanny Fran.

I agree it is nice to see all the different grans/nans and their male counterparts coming on this website.

I am an animal lover too, but sadly we have no animals now. I was just too upset when the last cat went that I couldn't face it again.

My son and family had two lovely cats which helped, but recently they had to be rehomed as my youngest grandson has major skins problems and allergies and cannot have animals in the house. The irony of it was that he loved the cats.

We love watching the rugby too.

I like your eclectic choice of Music from your profile from Elgar to Eric Clapton. I am from Elvis to Michael Buble and lots in between.

Hello Maggie.

Great to find another Rummikub fan. I am far from accomplished but I do love the game and play it with my WI and the U3A.

Well done to you for being 'on show' in W. H. Smith - I did laugh at that.

What a coincidence I have the other two beautiful golden boys - 3 and 1. Aren't we lucky ? I am totally besotted especially when the 3 year old says 'let's have a cuddle Nan'

I love your idea of a happy marriage, mine is quite similar, however I am the tippler and DH is the occasional. In fact in 15 minutes time I will pour myself a nice glass of chilled sherry and start preparing the supper.

Yes I like Crime thrillers too, just started a Robert Goddard book 'Never go back'.

I was like you, NanKate and didn't realise about profiles for ages, I do enjoy looking at them and learning more about people, what a diverse lot we are!
Not being very technical, my photos are in short supply at the moment, I can't work find the ones I wanted to post.

I'm proper nosy, NanKate, so click on a lot of names. Now that I've looked at your profile and know that you like Rummikub, I have to brag that I once entered a national Rummikub competition and found myself - to my family's embarrassment - playing in the regional finals sitting in the front window of a local WH Smith's. I came second (a huge surprise as I'd never actually played before and was winging it) and went on to come fifth in the first (and possibly last) national Rummikub championship in London, which featured in a half page spread in the Guardian. Perhaps you were there?!