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[Claude]

...carpenter.

I'm after someone in/near Newbury to do a bit of work, nothing major, just a kitchen cupboard around the boiler and something to tidy up the space under the stairs.

Can you suggest anyone?

Merci beaucoup

[Strafin]

I don't anyone who fits the bill, but have you enquired in the Newbury & Thatcham Facebook page? It is an excellent interactive page where you can get honest opinions from all sorts of local people. Just message them your question and they will post it up, anonymously if you like, and people respond.

[Strafin]

https://www.facebook.com/newburyberks

Link to the page, it's worth a look for any forum members who haven't seen it before, especially when something local is happening and you need information.

[Biker1]

Facebook??
Is that the site where once you register all and sundry are able to gather your personal details.
Or is it the one where you get the sack from slagging off your employer?
Or just the one where you tell the world what you had for breakfast?

[Simon Kirby]

Facebook??
Is that the site where once you register all and sundry are able to gather your personal details.
Or is it the one where you get the sack from slagging off your employer?
Or just the one where you tell the world what you had for breakfast?

It's the one where you post requests for the recommendation of a carpenter around Newbury and people who live around Newbury respond with recommendations.

[user23]

Facebook??
Is that the site where once you register all and sundry are able to gather your personal details.
Or is it the one where you get the sack from slagging off your employer?
Or just the one where you tell the world what you had for breakfast?

That particular page has almost 14k "likes", or readers.

They'll come a time in the not too distant future that this number is greater than the readership of the NWN and it becomes the most viewed source of news for the area.

[NWNREADER]

Facebook??
Is that the site where once you register all and sundry are able to gather your personal details.
Or is it the one where you get the sack from slagging off your employer?
Or just the one where you tell the world what you had for breakfast?

As with any social media (including this forum) it is the users that create the problems, not the platform. If you choose to make all your personal and private info available to all and sundry, say things that are best left unsaid, tell people you have never met (and never will) the colour of the fluff in your navel (grey), then your description is correct.

[newres]

That particular page has almost 14k "likes", or readers.

They'll come a time in the not too distant future that this number is greater than the readership of the NWN and it becomes the most viewed source of news for the area.

It is unbearably low brow and full of posts by people looking for cheap labour. I don't doubt that you are right, but I don't think it will be the same audience.

[Andy Capp]

Facebook??
Is that the site where once you register all and sundry are able to gather your personal details.
Or is it the one where you get the sack from slagging off your employer?
Or just the one where you tell the world what you had for breakfast?

It can be if you want, but it doesn't have to be like that.

[Andy Capp]

It is unbearably low brow and full of posts by people looking for cheap labour. I don't doubt that you are right, but I don't think it will be the same audience.

That's right, but what user23 says is true, except of course, it isn't really news, it it's more a glorified gossip column.

[Simon Kirby]

It is unbearably low brow ...

Yes, we get a much better class of troll here. Pappardelle with braised goat ragù anyone?

[user23]

It is unbearably low brow and full of posts by people looking for cheap labour. I don't doubt that you are right, but I don't think it will be the same audience.

Aren't local papers "full" of people selling cheap labour?

That's right, but what user23 says is true, except of course, it isn't really news, it it's more a glorified gossip column.

Isn't most of local news really just glorified gossip?

The one thing that's different about Newbury is that citizen journalism hasn't really taken off as it has in many other places. so perhaps this means our local press are doing a better job than their counterparts elsewhere.

[Claude]

So no recommendations so far then...

[Simon Kirby]

So no recommendations so far then...

I do all my own Claude, sorry.

[Andy Capp]

Aren't local papers "full" of people selling cheap labour?
Isn't most of local news really just glorified gossip?

The one thing that's different about Newbury is that citizen journalism hasn't really taken off as it has in many other places. so perhaps this means our local press are doing a better job than their counterparts elsewhere.

That would be assuming your assertion is true.

[user23]

That would be assuming your assertion is true.

Is it not?

[Andy Capp]

Is it not?

You're telling the story!

[Biker1]

Wow!
Hit a nerve there with the avid followers of the great god Facebook!
Just seems that many negative stories seem to tie in to this social media site.
Especially among young girls and naive people who should know better.
I will choose to remain a non-subscriber.

[Simon Kirby]

Wow!
Hit a nerve there with the avid followers of the great god Facebook!
Just seems that many negative stories seem to tie in to this social media site.
Especially among young girls and naive people who should know better.
I will choose to remain a non-subscriber.

I don't understand what you're complaining about, and I suspect you don't understand either. As a subscriber your Facebook experience is almost entirely down to the friends you subscribe to, and personal information that you expose about yourself is also entirely under your control. If you have friends who post inane or indiscreet pap then you can ignore or un-friend them, and your friends can do the same to you.

I imagine there was a similar moral panic when the telephone was invented.

[Biker1]

I don't understand what you're complaining about, and I suspect you don't understand either.

I understand perfectly and not complaining. It is up to the individual what they choose to do online and of no consequence to me. However, do not complain when it goes tits up such as losing ones job or worse!
Unfortunately it would seem that some, usually of the younger generation, are not able to ignore or un-friend "friends" If they post inane or indiscreet pap.
(Or perhaps I read it in the Daily Mail! )

I imagine there was a similar moral panic when the telephone was invented.

Moral panic?