Okay, okay, I'll be your friend. But only if I can keep raging against the machine. LOL

Thank you for being the first to share a visitor message on my page, Kate. : )

Thanks for asking! I'm so bummed about my camera. I am going to be able to have it replaced, but I'm waiting for the new one to come in stock. If I get a chance between now and then I may put my pics on a CD and go that route in order to post them on my blog.

Thanks, Crissy. Things aren't going very well here, but life does march on nonetheless. ;-) Hope football season isn't wearing you down too much!

Thanks, Shannon!

That's interesting, Kate! I'm having the opposite reaction to the new features. We were able before to send messages like this to one another via the private inbox, so I'm not sure why this is really any different. Maybe this is one reason why Facebook is appealing to you and not to me? : )

I did read what Robin posted about the groups and I suppose many people agree with what she (and you) shared. I don't like having subgroups. I don't even like having multiple forums. I learned from and appreciated this board the most when everything was one big melting pot. It makes me sad that some conversations that previously would have been instructive to me will now be discussed elsewhere. I see this board being less and less useful to me in that regard. Oh, well.

Too funny! I like the way the "Visitor Messages" only shows my visitors' half of the conversations. So in this case, there's a post from you, outta the blue, affirming the fact that you don't have bad breath. LOL

Wait a minute. Conversations about CHILDREN'S LITERATURE would never have happened on any of these boards?! What...? It frustrates me that a social group would be created to discuss books, for crying out loud. The whole thing feels to me just as I shared in my posts: Like a lot of cliques. Like high school. Like division. The only up side, I suppose, is that it will ultimately lead me to spend less time here.

Well, hey, girlfriend! What a coinky-dinky, running into you here. I seldom stop by; you seldom stop by. Thanks for stopping by to say hello. Things here are....hmmm...the same. Be that as it may. ;-D xoxo

Yeah, I caught that ~ though sadly, I missed the basis (if indeed there was one) for your knuckle-rap. LOL

Yeah, it'd be nice to be able to put those pics on my blog! The camera is deader'n a doornail, though. (What is up with that phrase? What does it mean?!) I need to download the photos on to a CD and use that to transfer them on to my blog. Hopefully I can get to that soon. Not that there are tons of faboo pics, but it'd be nice to share a few.

Yes, I realize you weren't talking about the Children's Lit group. But I was/am using that group to underscore my point. : )