Stirnet Limited FAQ

The Stirnet Portal is what we call our provision of links from this site to other sites. We intend to build-up this facility over the next few years.

TWITTER – Stirnet has had an account at Twitter since May 2011 in the name of StirnetCom. [Unfortunately somebody else beat us to using ‘Stirnet’ as an account name. It appears that that person derived the name from STI.R.Net so at least it wasn’t somebody pretending to be us.]  I started using the account to record what database pages I had just uploaded but that rather fell away a long time ago. It is very rare for me to access Twitter nowadays.

 

FACEBOOK – I opened an account with Facebook in June 2011 (name Peter Barns-Graham; email: peterbg@stirnet.com). Initially I held back to avoid images of my sons at University (and elsewhere) but I slowly came to realise that Facebook might be useful and even quite interesting. However, I have never really found a use (for Stirnet) for Facebook so I do not put much effort into it.

 

LINKEDIN – I have had an account since early December 2011 with LinkedIn (name Peter Barns-Graham; email: peterbg@stirnet.com) but have never learned how to use it properly and may never do so simply because I do not really have a need for it. That may change, but probably not.

 

Is there a common theme with the above? Yes, I am afraid there is. I am not good with the Social Media and see little need to become any good with any of them. I could be persuaded otherwise but do not expect to be. [This note was last updated 7th August 2018.]

No. On 1st February 2008, following a suggestion from a correspondent, I submitted the site to Cyndi’s List (www.cyndislist.com, I think Stirnet was registered sometime in 2012) and Stirnet also sponsored a Societies Fair and some brochures that I developed for another venture, but that is all I have done. It is unlikely that, apart from further support of that last-mentioned venture, I will spend much time, effort or money on marketing the site as it is reasonably-easily found by those who are likely to find this site particularly useful. Feel free to contact me/us should you think me wrong on that!

If you operate a commercial business, see Advertising with Stirnet. If you are thinking about drawing attention to a non-commercial web site, see The Stirnet Portal.

One of the reasons why I started using “I” &  “me” instead of “we” & “us” was because a number of people appear to think that Stirnet is a large organisation. It is not. For most of the time, Stirnet is just a one-man-band, me (Peter). It is appreciated when people make allowance for this!