Delias Croque Monsieur recipe. This is my version of the toasted cheese and ham sandwich of caf society fame, and just thinking about it and imagining atmospheric. Watch the Latest News. Videos including Featured News Videos and Sports Videos and News Highlights. View more News. com. Videos and Breaking News and Featured. Discover the latest fashion and trends in menswear and womenswear at ASOS. Shop this seasons collection of clothes, accessories, beauty and more. Facebooks grandparent effect How older Australians are going online to reconnect. May 0. 4, 2. 01. 7 1. Doctor Who The Complete Eighth Series. Facebook has dubbed it the grandparent effect when older people create profiles on the social networking site to look at pictures of their grandchildren. The company will not say exactly how many older Australians are on its site, but with 1. Australians using it every day, it is a fair bet the age range of its users is getting wider. Ray Jackson, 6. 9, is an example of the grandparent effect. He signed up to keep in touch with family. Every day first thing in the morning, you get up, turn the computer on, look at Facebook, he said. See what the kids have done, grandkids have done something at school or whatever. And like Facebooks younger users, Mr Jackson has also used the site to reconnect with school friends. He started secondary school in 1. Western Australias Eastern Goldfields Senior High School and had not seen many of his classmates in more than 5. But six months ago, after finding each other on Facebook, a group of them resolved to catch up in real life. Fellow classmate Geoff Higgs said he was a bit nervous before the get together. I didnt think Id recognise anyone, but fortunately because of Facebook I could study their photos and I could pick up a couple of faces, and then I was right, he said. We met at midday, and next time I looked at my watch it was about 4 3. We talk a load of rubbish mainly. On Wednesday the group met again and were joined by three more classmates. Mr Jackson agreed the catch ups had a bit of a mens shed feel about them. Ive donated stuff to our local mens shed, the sort of life I lead at the moment doesnt give me time to go there and do things, he said. But yeah, I imagine its exactly the same sort of thing, guys talking about guys issues. Last year one of the men, Ray Varley, lost his wife. Judy was in our class at school, so wed got married at 2. Watch The Lego Movie Online Forbes here. I miss her heaps. He said reconnecting with his school friends had helped and offered advice for seniors yet to take the social media plunge. Do it while you can, just get out there and find out where your friends are and search em up and reconnect, he said. Theres no harm done, you might enjoy it. The group said they now planned to catch up regularly. Weve decided its got to happen three or four times a year, just so we dont let it go for another 5. Mr Varley said. Topics internet technology. First posted. May 0. Contact Eliza Borrello. Western Australia. Watch Croc Online Facebook' title='Watch Croc Online Facebook' />Shop the official mulberry. British luxury. Discover our classic leather bags, accessories, womenswear and travel collections.