Talking about your plant sharing group reminded me of how long ago, most of the plants I had in my yards were plants that were shared from family members and friends. We hardly ever bought plants and flowers except a few annuals in the spring to add to the edges of the perennial beds. My mother has plants whose ancestors were in my Grandmother's and Great Grandmother's yards. They are like pieces of your family. I don't have as many flowers and fun plants in the yard now that I am older and lazier, I just haven't kept it going from house to house.
I have a facebook. When I moved back to my hometown from my midlife adventure, some of the folks I went to school with were wanting to have a reunion and encouraged folks from our class to signup and link together on facebook, so I did. After that I added my family and some friends from Texas and the such. I have mine set as private so that only the folks on my friends list can see what I post as I am not looking for strangers to make new friends of there. I don't post much and I don't spend much time there, but I do check it for a minute a time or two a day when I sit down to check emails and the such. Mostly I like seeing when my family post pictures of their children and beach trips and the such and they usually just do that for the rest of the family. Facebook keeps changing what I can see in my stream, just like always and I keep adjusting to try to see my family things. For some reason they keep making that more difficult. After the last big change that was just in the last few weeks, hardly anything I would like to see falls in my stream, so I have to make effort to go see. It is very annoying and I wouldn't mind if my family would all move there stuff somewhere different so I could let facebook go myself, but as long as family posts photos, I will probably keep checking it for a minute or two now and then.
I almost forgot that I am connected to one group there for folks that love vintage aluminum Christmas trees. :)
Oh, I do love your family. I want to add it as an extension of mine. My parents and I trade plants. They are an hour and a half inland from me, so we often have monthly trades of many plants at once. I so dislike the big box hardware store plant culture of let's go buy this expensive pretty plant in this pot and I know nothing about it and I'm not going to find out either, but let's just see if it will serve it's purpose of flowering for a month. It is a disposable world - even plants. I go to Lowe's specifically to hit their clearance rack, and it blows my mind. Usually there is a thousand dollars worth of plants that they just didn't water, or they decided it wasn't blooming anymore. Often times some sad African daisy, or something similar, on the verge of death will talk me into taking it home. I sigh and mutter something like fine, I will take you away from these terrible people. :)
Yes, Facebook has a very annoying set-up with their feed. It is pretty dysfunctional. I stopped posting pictures of anything a few years ago. Funny, but Facebook has inspired me to do the opposite of their philosophy. I now more embrace the idea of not staying in touch with everyone. I just don't really want my second cousin to see much in my life. I don't actually know her. The people that really matter get emails from me with pictures. I like it better that way. I guess that is the voice of an introvert.
I love that there is a group for aluminum Christmas trees.