I bought a gift membership for my mom. What an experience. Apparently she entered the code wrong and kept calling me saying she did everything right, but still couldn't vote on Fantasy. Well, I walked her through the process via phone this afternoon and now she is happily voting (I apologize in advance to all of us - including myself).
Ok, since three this afternoon when I walked her through the process and the time I got home from work, she has called me three times leaving messages about her votes and how much fun she is having. Since I got home there have been two more calls - one to ask which was mine (I didn't tell her) and one to ask what I thought of a particular pic - told her it was her vote and her opinion (this leads me to believe she is actually thinking about the entries in relation to the challenge/technical stuff).
Outside of the fact that this is more communication with my mother than I have had in years, I am encouraged. Why you may ask? As people get older and their activities start to wane, their body and mind do to if they are not active. I got the computer for my parents two years ago and all they do is check email and order their prescriptions. This has got my mom and dad sitting at the computer, discussing photos, rating them, asking all kinds of questions - actually getting excited about the next challenge and now that she has a membership they get to vote twice as much.
So...maybe a gift membership would give some enjoyment to someone you know. Just a thought. I am not promoting the site in any way, just people doing something rather than nothing.
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