Sorry GNHQ I don't like the Oldie Borum

Just checked all the Active threads to see if there has been a response from GNHQ and I'm a little bit surprised to find that, as yet, they have not responded.

I think it's just another way for GN to get more members through the extra exposure. When you go to it from the Oldie web page it says Gransnet Forums in large letters at the top,

I will give my brain fingers a rest now and try thinking about something else, like cleaning the bathroom. and let someone else get a word in edgeways

I think we should avoid posting on that topic and see whether they can manage a forum without our input. [doubtful]

Charlotta

Of course, they wouldn't be able to see our 'what are you reading' thread on their oldie borum in the mag.

I don't think.

Thanks jingle! Nor you either in spite of having your 5th? name.

She obviously hadn't checked our threads out Annobel.

Cock-up all round wasn't it?!

No one would get mistaken for you Charlotta.

I suppose she is the mag's equivalent to Geraldine.

Why did they start a 'what are you reading?' thread when we already have one that they could quite easily either join in or observe?

Who is this Charlotte? If it appears that she gets mixed up with me then I shall have to change my name!
I think The Oldie is an awful mag. It is one of those rags that I woudn't want to be seen reading in the dentist's waiting room.

Btw I can't see any reason why any of us would want to post on there as we already have our Topics which fit our needs. We would probably join in a thread if someone started an interesting thread on there, from the magazine side.

Which I don't think is very likely, given that it appears they already tried a forum and it fizzled out.

I'll stick to Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan.

They didn't mean it to be like they were "interrogating us" Carol*. They just wanted some threads started up on the oldie borum in their mag. (which I would NEVER buy btw)

I'm trying to get my head round how it works. When you go to the oldie borum from the mag, it says it is "powered by Gransnet" and it shows up over there just the same as the oldie borum thread topic here, but feinter. I think Gransnet must somehow do the technical side of it and, sort of, beam it across to them. And their readers' contributions will somehow bounce back to our topic thred.

I'm fine with it btw.

Can't see what all the fuss is about. (and it was funny the way it happened yesterday (well, I enjoyed it))

Suggestion - why not delete the Oldie Borum Forum threads and just join in like everyone else? And stop interrogating us all? I thought Gransnet was inclusive and welcoming, and joined when I experienced that myself, so it feels very odd to be protesting like this.

If the Borum wants to be separate and find out some information from Gransnetters, then follow the usual protocol and pose the questions under 'media/research.'

I'm not at all happy. I feel that the way Oldie Borum dropped into GN was disrespectful to us all. No explanation was given prior to this, and for GNHQ to 'apologise' after the event and agreeing that they were a little remiss in not informing us first....well, we may be Grandmas but we're not in our dotage!

Quite. They seem bluntly interrogative and nothing more. Humph!

....and another thing. It is usual for the poster of a thread to join in, in some measure, to the ebb and flow of comments, thoughts and ideas. If not then suspicions can be aroused as to the purpose of the thread. I have not seen any participation from T.O.B or CharlotteOldie.

That's true, Carol. It reminds me of my GD when she was in primary school, asking me, 'What did you do in the war, Granny?' Answer: 'I wasn't even at school!'
One of the things that surprised me about Gransnet is the age span. We have grans in their 40s and some in their 80s. Any 90s? I found that I was one of the older ones (71) but don't regard myself as having an 'elderly' attitude whatever that might be.

....just another thought - why wasn't the introduction of a tranche of new potential members just raised as an opportunity, and the threads allowed to continue in a way that would have allowed integration, rather than be presented as 'here's something to be superimposed?'

Yes, I was a bit taken aback about the assumption that I would have memories that belong to my mother and grandmother. It's just another indication that they have misjudged Gransnet's demographic somewhat. If avoiding the Forum Borum is to be called a boycott, then boycott it is for me.

Do NOT like it at all!

Have I got this wrong might (have got a hold of the wrong end of the stick), do they have their own forum and were their members going to post over here?

If that is the case I dont think I have seen anyone other than the administrators, has anyone else?

Not that the 1960s isn't a bygone era, of course. Just not as bygone as the OB threads seems to expect.

Have to say I am not comfortable with it either. I am probably being a bit hypersensitive, but some of the threads seem to assume we are from a bygone era. For example, the one about treatment before penicillin or the question about if you met on a bus or a park bench seem to assume we date from sometime between the wars.
Er no actually, we met at university in 1968; mini skirts, the pill, the student revolution, that sort of thing.
I am up for a boycott of the OB as well.