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* Board Stats

  • stats Total Members: 286
  • stats Total Posts: 347180
  • stats Total Topics: 10778
  • stats Total Categories: 6
  • stats Total Boards: 80
  • stats Most Online: 39
Welcome to Fifty Plus Forum
Here at Fifty Plus Forum, the free forum for the over 50's, we aim to provide the Over Fifties community with a nice place to meet and chat together with help and advice. Our forum is completely FREE and secure, so you can join like minded people in a fun and safe environment, to share your thoughts, discuss any topic and enjoy good company. We have been in operation since 2009 and have a growing membership. We pride ourselves on our Freedom of Speech policy so you can post about anything you like so long as it's not offensive.

So come on in and meet the folks like you. We have a fluctuating but very stable membership and unlike other forums and social networks, if you decide to leave us, we don't hang on to your personal details. Unlike some other Social Media sites, all personal data is deleted. We take personal security very seriously.

Simple operation
The forum is very easy to navigate and use. We have 50+ topic categories to post in from Health and Well being through Fun, Chat, Debate and Computer problems including all manner of help topics such as DIY. We also have regular prize winning competitions and lots of members who are happy to help with all manner of problems in and around the home, you can post a question and it will usually be answered very quickly.

Here are some of our Members Only features:
  • Multiple discussion areas for Chatty, Serious and Debatable topics.
  • Personal Blog Area - Write about your experiences
  • Competitions - We have regular competitions with some super prizes on offer.
  • A completely private messaging system - unlike e-mail, you can send and receive safe and secure messages to/from fellow members - no spam - no viruses GUARANTEED!
  • Integrated Gallery - Show off your photos to fellow members
  • Fully integrated Tag System - Tag and find topics easily
  • No Advertising within the forum pages
  • No Dating or other matchmaking gimmicks
Membership Meetings and Outings
We have enjoyed a great start to our forum meets and have had loads of forum meets so far and several mini-meets. These are organised meetings where members can come together and enjoy a real life chat amongst friends over a drink and a meal. See a recent public blog entry below.

Privacy
Fifty Plus Forum is a private forum for the over Fifties. We value our members privacy more than many other Social Networking forums and as such no information about our membership is used for any advertising or product promotions. We do not sell e-mail addresses and no posts are visible to the general public. We do encourage forum sponsorship and our members have benefited from several major company sponsors over the years.

We welcome Guests to the forum but all you can see is this page, the articles and the topics some of our members have chosen to place on our public front page area, the rest of the forum is for members only.

Joining the Forum
To join the forum, click HERE or the REGISTER button above, fill in your details, include a valid e-mail and a note about how you found us. We'll then verify your details with you. It only takes a few moments. Once you've signed up, post a reply to the Welcome message and you'll then have full access to the forum.

NOTE: If you have recently applied to join us and have not yet received your welcome e-mail, please check your SPAM/JUNK mail folder, you'll need to click the link in that mail to validate your account.

* What's happening on the forum...

Well Easter came and went and we had a winner in our competition, well done Soo who guessed the number nearest the actual total. Soo wins a 2GB USB Memory drive.

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With Easter on the way, we've just launched our Easter Egg Basket competition. Simple to enter, just guess the eggs in and around the basket to win a prize.

So here we are with yet another overdue update. We had 35 new members join us in March taking us ever closer to the 300 mark. Great to have them

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Wow, has it been over a month since the last update? Well Christmas has come and gone, we had five lucky winners of a 2GB USB Pen drive stocking filler prize in out Advent Calendar draw. We've had new members join our little band, joining in the fun.

One member has just been voted Poster of the Year for all their input into the forum. Voted the winner by the members, well done to PA :)

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We've just produced our Advent Calendar for 2011 - Members only, sorry - and this year members can choose a door to put their name on. On Christmas Day a door will be selected at random and the member(s) who have selected that door will win a surprise stocking filler gift.

Our Short Story competition winner has been announced and has received his prize a 500GB USB Hard Disk drive. Well done Paul.

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We've started a Poll to see who you think will win "Strictly Come Dancing 2011". Check out the poll results so far (top right) and add your comments (Guests too).

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The Short story competition is now closed. Judging is taking place and the winners will be announced soon.

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Our third Short Story competition is well under way now with some wonderfully evocative stories about "My Favourite Place". A portable USB Hard Disk Drive as the first prize and the competition runs until the end of September. So for a chance to win, join us now.

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Our new "Members Map" facility has been a great hit. Members place a pin to mark their location on a Google based map and it's proved very useful to members finding their neighbours and arranging meets.

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Amazingly for such a small forum, we've had over 273,000 posts so far on nearly 9,000 topics. What's more we've had 79 new member this year, more than some other forums have total members.

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It's been said that people like to see what's in a forum before they join. Other forums that are open to the public (and search engines) offer this facility but we don't. What goes on in this forum stays in this forum, sorry, that's just the way it is.

* Article of the Day

Article of the Day

Saturday, 17 March 2012 - 06:10:39 PM by dinnerlaydee | Views: 201 | Comments: 0

The 6th meeting March 9th – 11th 2012

The planning of this meet followed much the similar pattern as the others had done in that we had polls for dates and locations. Even though there had already been a meet in Oxford, albeit a mini meet attended by only eight people, Oxford came out as the chosen location again. We chose to use the same Premier Inn as last time too. Members were coming in by car and train as before, from areas as far flung as Manchester, Portsmouth, Nottingha...
Friday, 12 March 2010 - 07:45:06 PM by Paul(ette) | Views: 808 | Comments: 0

One of the things we do in addition to providing a forum for social interaction is to try to help our members with any problems they may have. One of our members raised a question about recording from a TV with inbuilt DVD player to a DVD/VHS recorder and the topic got round to upgrading to digital. As part of the thread I posted the following which may help non-members too. If you wish to follow the entire thread and/or ask questions of your own, please do join us by registering as a  forum mem...
Sunday, 18 October 2009 - 08:36:17 AM by Hal | Views: 935 | Comments: 0

Before January 2009, many of the members of this forum belonged to SagaZone. During this time, SZ was closed to public view and was considered safe by many as a place where they could post freely without their posts being made public. SagaZone management then decided to make the forum, profiles and other areas PUBLIC, allegedly so they could boost membership numbers and consequently their customer base.

Lots of members rebelled against this and decided to remove much of their private ...
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