Thread Drift

[ny biker]

The rest of the kids came. I actually had to see a client at the office on the way home, and when I got there, I had a note from the insurance lady that the kid who didn't come insurance expired on 4/15. So, I would not have been paid if I saw her. I texted her (she's 18) and she said, yeah, they got the letter to renew their MA Health, but there was some issue, and "it was only 5 days ago." I hate telling people this, but I did tell her that if she doesn't have the insurance ( no co pay), if I see her, it's 55.00. That is cheap for private pay, but I made the point and she got it.

Well, she's young and probably (hopefully) hasn't been forced to learn the realities of dealing with insurance problems yet. A waste of your time, but a chance to help her learn an important lesson.

[Crankin]

Yes, and it's a complicated family situation. She's actually a very responsible kid. Her grandmother was her guardian, but she lives with her mom/dad, under very trying circumstances. I guess mom responded to the letter Mass Health sent them and it was actually the grandmother who should have seen this. I had already had my final meeting with the grandmother, to tell her that I no longer legally could communicate with her, unless the kid signed a release, which was hard for her to understand. But, although the kid would probably sign a release, I think this is, indeed, alesson she needs to learn, as she said this is already messing up the stuff she needs to do for her college for next year. She's the first person her family to go to college, so there's a lot of stress, apart from the family situation. She's not going very far, but she will be living on campus.

[OakLeaf]

On the topic of waning forum activity ... I just noticed that there's no longer a link to the forum on TE's e-commerce homepage. Susan/Jeff, was that intentional? Have we become more hassle than we're worth?

[Crankin]

I, too, have noticed the decrease in forum activity, again. It makes me sad.
We might not have so many technical questions, after years of genius TE advice, but we have other cycling and related stuff to share, I think??? I, for one, have no desire to post on other cycling forums.

[rocknrollgirl]

I don't post often, but this is the only place I do post and I do check in every day. Do you think social media is killing this type of forum? Is everyone on FB and that is why they are not posting?

Heck I have long standing friendships that are on the brink of ending because I am not on FB. Is it really that much work to email or pick up the phone anymore? Sorry, different issue I guess.

[Catrin]

I don't post often, but this is the only place I do post and I do check in every day. Do you think social media is killing this type of forum? Is everyone on FB and that is why they are not posting?

Heck I have long standing friendships that are on the brink of ending because I am not on FB. Is it really that much work to email or pick up the phone anymore? Sorry, different issue I guess.

I do think this is related to social media. When I found TE in 2010 forums seemed to be more popular among most people I knew at the time. That has changed...

[shootingstar]

I post occasionally in 3 other places. 2 others are cycling oriented with 1 of them a local-city based cycling forum. But it is this forum I check most often. I actually find it easier to choose different topics to respond within 1 central interface in 1 site and see responses from regular as well as occasional visitors.

I do enough jumping around by visiting blogs.... So a forum feels more "stable", less fragmented from a reading perspective.

I don't use FB. Having a blog is good enough for me on sharing my favourite passions and photos. Thank God my closest friends are email oriented. They don't use FB nor Twitter either.

[Helene2013]

I noticed this also this week because of some reason, instead of getting directly to this forum, I went to look at stuff to purchase and could not get back to the forum. I had to google team oestrogen forum to get to the link. hummm

If I go to TE direct weblink, the "community" tab is not there. It will appear only once I click for instance on one of the tabs then it shows the Community button. But there is no way I'd know there was a community without clicking on the "sale" or whatever else button. Which opens another window, and then I see Community, etc.