Rules and Guidelines
Want to participate in the discussions? Please read our Community Rules and Guidelines. Need some help? Visit Support and Answers.

  • State Not Answered
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 14 replies
  • Subscribers 17 subscribers
  • Views 1495 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
You may also be interested in
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Not JUST a Virtual Club

Andy Millar
Just to say that since the new forums started with photos (if we want) and real names I for one have found this club has gone beyond the virtual - and all the better for it. I've just had my third IET event this year where at least one person has come up to me and said "Hello, you're Andy aren't you? We've never met in real life" - particularly impressive this time as it was someone (hello Garethsmiley) who lives 3,000 miles away from me! I cannot recommend this highly enough as a way of meeting other engineers. 


Of course, I quite understand that some or many members won't want their photos up for all sorts of reasons, but even then it's still possible to spot names on conference / seminar lists. Definitely another really good reason to join in to these discussions. yes


Cheers,


Andy
Parents
  • 0
    Hi Jack,


    Still, once you find out how to use the forums (and indeed find them in the first place) at least there's a sense of achievement - a bit like setting up a colony on Mars or finding Atlantis smiley


    Yes that point about the photos baffled me for a year or two - not so much getting it on my profile (I don't actually remember doing that) but adding photos to posts has the same odd feature, it feels more as if you're saving them to the cloud than just plonking them into a message a la Facebook (other social media forums are available).


    As you know, I've been pootling around in these forums for over 12 years now, so I've sort of got immune to the oddities of them...it would be fascinating to ask some short and long term members who've never come here to have a go, and video them doing it!


    See you down the physical pub soon smiley


    Cheers,


    Andy
Reply
  • 0
    Hi Jack,


    Still, once you find out how to use the forums (and indeed find them in the first place) at least there's a sense of achievement - a bit like setting up a colony on Mars or finding Atlantis smiley


    Yes that point about the photos baffled me for a year or two - not so much getting it on my profile (I don't actually remember doing that) but adding photos to posts has the same odd feature, it feels more as if you're saving them to the cloud than just plonking them into a message a la Facebook (other social media forums are available).


    As you know, I've been pootling around in these forums for over 12 years now, so I've sort of got immune to the oddities of them...it would be fascinating to ask some short and long term members who've never come here to have a go, and video them doing it!


    See you down the physical pub soon smiley


    Cheers,


    Andy
Children
No Data

Community Rules & Guidelines