Do you know what a forum is?  Did you know this site has one?

The basic premise of this website is to stay up-to-date with each other. I personally find forums as a great way to chat, joke and find information. I also may take the power of a forum for granted. As such I wanted to take the time to introduce you to the forum part of this website.

First, let me tell you a little about Internet Forums:

From: www.wikipedia.org

An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums, which date from around 1995, perform a similar function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet newsgroups that were numerous in the 1980s and 1990s. A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, computer games, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, but there are forums for a huge number of different topics.

Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, discussion groups, bulletin boards (but see also dial-up bulletin boards) or simply forums.

One significant difference between forums and electronic mailing lists is that mailing lists automatically deliver new messages to the subscriber, while forums require the member to visit the website, and check for new posts. Due to the possibility of members missing replies to threads they are interested in, many modern forums offer an "email notification" feature, where an email is automatically sent to all users who have chosen to be notified of new replies, informing them that a new post has been made.

Once you've become a registered user of the site, you automatically have the ability to use the forums. If you have news, pictures or thoughts that you want to share, the forums are the place to do it. Don't worry, you're not going to break anything on the site and if you have problems with something, drop me a line and I'll help you out.

We don't have a lot of users, and I don't anticipate getting more then 20-30 registered users, but if you start to use the forums, you'll see it's an effective way to communicate and share information with friends and family you may not regularly talk to.

If you want to get to the forums, simply click on the FORUM link, and you're there. It's pretty simple, and don't worry about netiquette, I'll teach you all about it over time.

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