Welcome to YogaGranny!

[Gemini]

Please welcome our newest member YogaGranny

[Oma]

Welcome Yoga granny 😁👍👏

[Nanto2girls]

Hello YogaGranny.

[Clover]

Lovely to have you with us.

[Plantaholic]

Welcome from me too, lovely to have you onboard, we are a very friendly group.

[Nannycuddles]

Welcome on board YogaGranny.

[Sum1Ls]

Big welcome - nice people here.

[Grauntie Mag]

Hello YogaGranny and welcome! 😁

[Plantaholic]

Why do people ask to join our group and then give no information about themselves. I do wonder if they are joining and not posting so they can read what we post without revealing their identity. Should they be asked to give details of themselves before being accepted as a member? Just a thought

[Gemini]

Plant, we do encourage new members to come to this section to introduce themselves and tell us a little about themselves and their grandchildren.

Remember they can read nothing on YEO until they become regular posting members.

Perhaps Yoga Granny will join in soon!

[Plantaholic]

I do understand that we should welcome new members but I feel we should ask them to tell us something about themselves before they can read our posts. I know they cannot access Yeo but we do post some personal things in the daily pop in. After all they do not use there real names. Perhaps I am being suspicious of people who join but do not tell us anything about themselves.

[Daisy]

Plant - the first time I joined a forum it took me ages (and I do mean ages) to pluck up the courage to make a first post. It seemed a very scary thing to do.

There are a lot of people who worry about their online presence and are frightened of being scammed. We hear in the news most days about people who have innocently walked into a horrible scam situation with something they believed to be 'safe'. Joining and not posting is very common on forums, and if a new member is popping in every so often and trying to get a 'feel' for this community she may start joining in the conversations in her own good time. And of course, we will all be delighted.

We are all naturally friendly and I think a little bit curious about each other, but I would hate anyone to feel under pressure to talk about themselves unless they wanted to.

[Clover]

Agree Daisy.

[Gemini]

I think it may seem especially hard on smallish forum like ours. New members can see that a lot of us seem to know each other well.
I remember feeling that way on a different forum years ago. It took me ages to 'break in'. Then they couldn't stop me

The thing for new members to realise is that none of us knew each other before we met here (apart from Lizzie48 and myself who met on a different forum!) And that we love having new members and will welcome their posts

[Daisy]

Gem - you're right. It often makes me think of the school gate situation. We moved a lot so I stood outside quite a few school gates over the years not knowing anyone, wondering if anyone would speak to me and having that "I'm an outsider" feeling because everyone else seemed to have friends and know each other.