All of a sudden, I have like six buttons coming down the left side of the site that obscure the first few words of each line of a question. Facebook, Google, Inst! A printing icon and a few more. I see no way to get rid of them. Anybody know what's going on?
Some black symbols and characters all in a jumbled mess on the bottom right side of the screen. Also today when I clicked on my inbox to get into this site it kept taking me somewhere else.
This may be totally unrelated but I've noticed a few really irritating people who have started posting on here lately. I won't name names but I don't enjoy this site as much anymore because of them.
I certainly hope that no one is unwise enough to link any of these posts to any social media site - there are just too many personal revelations and angst for anything here to be made so public.
I was also seeing the same thing that Gershun saw but I don't see it tonight.
Does anyone know of someone who's been unable to post? I do know that's happened to one person specifically.
However, I did see something that warms my heart - the little padlock on the right hand side of the address bar. I had been concerned before because the log-in wasn't secure. Now I'm seeing that apparently (?) the whole site is secure, or at least more so.
I think the higher level of security is for posting; I did notice a very high number of new posters over the last several days. And just before there was another repeat of the poster who appeared sometime ago and created very, very peculiar posts - I can't remember specifically but I think it was something about contacting deceased people..???
Thank you,
The AgingCare.com Team
Great move - just as one user, I really appreciate this change.
So I uninstalled part of the security software... I have no clue what I am doing since this isn't my area of expertise.... I was tapping on keys blind. Anyway, whatever I did opened the way back into Aging Care. The "tracker" is running so I how how many trackers [being followed] are in use on a website.
Then I found out from a friend that the Aging Care website was making some changes at the same time. Whew. But I didn't re-install that security system. Money down the drain as that software wasn't free. Not worth the risk.
At work I notice the Facebook, etc. colorful display on the left side of my screen. It doesn't show up here at home except for a text written Facebook-Twitter-Google+Linedin-Email-Print at the top of the page. It will cover up what is written when that line lands. Kinda like those ads on TV that cover up stuff on a TV show.
Are we having fun yet with new technology?
There may also be a problem with your browser - which one are you using?
I also had trouble with other sites until the cable rep discovered water in the outside cable connection. Since then there will be periodic freezes in accessing sites, and IE 11 still crashes, but I think those are software problems specific to MS software.
I just accessed the site through Firefox - FF, like you, no links on the left side.
Others have told me Firefox is a superior browser, and in many ways it is.
I guess it depends on whether or you a poster would want to use the links. I might use the Google one, but that's all.
Before I found this, or had been using IE, the box was so small it made it difficult to proof read. Or if I was typing a short novel, scrolling back and forth to make sure I wasn't repeating myself.
I used to go to my e-mail, click on "see my hug", or just click on "newsfeed" then I would get to the site to read, however, I had to "Log In" to post an answer.
Not being computer literate, I asked my husband why the left-sided [ f ] [tweeter]
[g] [in] etc. is often covering the posts I am trying to read. He said it has to do with cross-browser compatibility. People on mobiles, I-phones, and regular computers will all have different issues. To see everything, people have told me
that they cannot see some things (instant messaging) until they are on their computers.
Maggie, to get rid of that issue, I make the page larger, move it around, etc. Using a Kindle here. Alternatively, I have gone off the site and returned. Caregiving is just too frustrating to be dealing with technical issues when trying to contact the only lifeline to others who can help us.
If we are patient with the tech-persons on AC, they will shake it all out, in the meantime, I am putting up more twinkle lights. (Shopgirl in movie: You've Got Mail).
AC, really appreciate the web site security.
It used to be much easier to navigate around the site.
I will be patient, however.
For me, a quicker way to find a thread I like due to pertinent information, I copy and paste the link on top to my NOTE APP with a short note on it - like "sundowning tips"
"Nothing is private.. You could always just google any question from this site and it will come up.. They are now making it easier to post to other social networks..."
I'm uncomfortable with this and reluctant to post. Especially since we can't edit or delete posts. I'm on other forums and they have a "preview post" feature. I wish this site had that.
Unfortunately, participating online puts us in a situation of having to take as many precautions as possible, but I doubt that few do beyond just getting anti-virus, firewalls and similar protection.
One of the real issues are the terms and conditions (TOS) of site participation. People jump on the social media bandwagon without reading those TOS provisions. If you're on Facebook, read their's, carefully. And don't for a moment think that what your might post there isn't being catalogued for sale.
From what I can tell, there's been a lot of accommodation to the social media phenomena. At least 3 of my favorite, well respected, forums closed last year with the advice to continue interacting with people on social media. No way.
How Google catalogues and indexes posts isn't clearly understood by me. I just googled "Aging Care, Garden Artist" and didn't get any hits for my own posts, but did find one in which someone posted and responded to a post of mine. So of over 2400 answers I wrote, I wasn't able to find any through a general Google search. Go figure....I guess my answers aren't worthy enough to be catalogued, which is fine with me!
But specific posts can be googled and hits returned.
As to posting here, I agree that editing and deletion is desirable. It's not unusual for someone to post and later want to edit, or even delete it, especially if it was done in the heat of the moment and regretted later.
But even editing doesn't guarantee that what was written initially doesn't remain on the host's servers.
Even outside of cyberspace, there's been a significant increase in people monitoring - look how many closed circuit cameras are in operation today, from banks, retail stores and more to 2 traffic cameras mounted in each of the 4 corners of intersections. That might not occur in very rural areas, but in my metropolitan area, it's the norm in one city. Others are gradually moving toward more intersection surveillance.
As for googling answers on the site, that is how I got here in the first place, googling all my questions and searching for answers, and I'm extremely glad I found Aging Care!
Suddenly I got one today, at an e-mail address I no longer use.
The address from which the notifications are coming is:
"AgingCare Daily Questions" notifications@agingcare.com"
Has this happened to anyone else?
I remember when cellphones first came out on the horizon decades ago, I could hear conversations bleeding across onto my police/fire scanner. That doesn't happen any more with the newer technology.
And now with people Tweeting, saying all sorts of rude and cruel things, don't people realize that can come back to haunt them?
I don't Facebook, don't Tweet, don't Intragram... recently I cancelled my account on LinkedIn. Information overload. I even have my credit frozen in all 3 of the credit bureaus. It's too easy to gather up information on someone and use their credit.
As for the email notification on this website here, I stopped that months ago. I spent more time trying to get those emails in order by date than I did in reading the posts. Then I would get zero email. The website said there was a problem with my email, so I gave them another to use, few days later problem with that email, so back to the original email. Back and forth. Was wasting too much time.
I just log on and start with the first post I see and keep scrolling down. If I had written an original Question or Discussion, and didn't see it scrolling, I would use the SEARCH SITE box and put in a key word plus 2015, to help narrow it down.
As for the emails, I have them sent to my secondary address. I only go there once a week, so I usually just delete them unread, but I sometimes will notice a thread or message that I had skipped over on my news feed.