Dear Member

You may very well be mad at us for not responding sooner to your membership of http://www.RetiredandActive.org, or you might just be relieved that to date you've received no spam.

I have no real excuse other than to say that we’ve been really busy separating and upgrading the three sites.

• www.retiredandactive.org – the site you joined up with which is a social networking site for the over 50s.
• www.lifes3rdphase.com – which serves those of us with no wish to retire and
• www.retiredbutactive.com – which is about enjoying retirement to the full.

Now we invite you

….to forgive us and please come to www.retiredandactive.org again so that you can

• Update your profile so that we know your interests and plans for retirement so that we can develop the site in line with your preferences
• Look through the sites and add your comments as appropriate
• Think about what roles, if any, you would like to adopt on the site.

Not everyone wants to take an active role, of course, but the sites are much more exciting if you do and they can become a hobby in themselves giving you contact with like minded people world wide.

Logging In

Forgotten your password?

No matter: you can use the ‘Request a New Password’ link below the login box.

Don’t like to let out my e-mail address.

Then use a temporary one – it’s easy.

Sign in to www.mail.live.com and setup a hotmail account just for RaA use. If you get spammed or anyone asks you for bank or address details shut the account and that’s that.

It’s free: it’s easy.

When you get there

Check down the left hand sidebar and somewhere neer the bottom you'll find a button, second from bottom as shown on the right.

Click on this then scroll down to your own entry and click on your username. Note, as you do so, that no confidential information is shown in anyone's profile.

The Identity Tab

Near the top of the screen you'll see the 'Identity' tag. Click on this.

Everything on this page, except the picture, is confidential and not shown to other users.

We'd like a picture

...ideally of you, but if you prefer you can send us something that tells us about who you are and what your interests are.

If you've got Microsoft Office you can easily get an icon by copying clipart into a document (->Insert->Clipart) then right clicking the picture and using 'save picture as' to copy it into you’re my Pictures folder.

Don't forget to click the icon before you leave.

The Interests Tab

These give you access to two fields and you can type quite normally into both. These will be seen on your profile.

Again, don't forget to click the icon before you leave.

A bit long-winded perhaps but we really do want to make the site that you, the users want and need, and we have every hope you will help us to make it.

And just a thought

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Roger

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