A cup of tea with Yanelis from PPFL
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Have you met some penpals in person? We have a album called “PPFL Meet & Greet” and so far there has been 10 pen pals who have met in person by meeting in PPFL. I have personally
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Pen Pals For Life C/O Yanelis Gourrie Po Box 27321 Tampa, Florida 33623 USA Email: Penpalsforlife@live.com www.facebook.com/penpalsforlife
Being Facebook friend with PPFL, I saw the members album. How often do you get emails from members with intros and photos to update that album? I love the way our PPFL Member Directory has grown so much. We have right now 166 members. We get an average of 1-3 requests per day to be added. Some want to
Do you think that a forum/community of penpals can exist smoothly only on Facebook or on other webpages? I think it can in the near future, that is one thing we are currently working on. Some of our members do not want a “group” or “forum/community” at all, they love the way the page is running. However, we are in the process of creating a website and when that project is completed, we love to have a forum/community for those who want to participate. I believe it can work on both Facebook and other pages.
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PPFL is very vivid and it updates quite often. How do you come up with all the interesting questions for discussions on your wall? This is one of the hardest tasks for me on PPFL. Thinking of new questions of discussion that will
add more information to their current ad, or some want to be added. This is a great way to get new pen pals. All you have to do is be a member of PPFL, send an email with your picture and photo to penpalsforlife@live.com and be included in our directory… Now pen pals will leave you comments under your photo and there you have new pals.
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What’s new in PenPals for Life Facebook Community? There are so many new things happening at PPFL community every day. From new giveaways, to new members, and brand new things coming up! Right now we have a Tattoo Contest, Vacation Photo Contest, Swaps. Just so many things happening! In the next
I noticed a lot of contests going on at the Facebook page - let us know more about them. Are there any new ones or some that are still going on? Yes, we have the Tattoo, Vacation Contest going on right now. The Tattoo contest will be for all month. We are thinking of new contest in the upcoming weeks!
keep our members busy is kind of hard, due to the fact that they cannot be the same. We have about 15 questions of Discussion a day. Some I get from personal experiences, some of issues that I have myself so I ask them in a way to help me come up with answers, also some are from our own members who need advice (and we ask this way too) or some are just petition by our members. Also my assistant (Lisa Marshall- Vice President of PPFL) does come up with them also. We do update our page quite often. Pen Pals For Life is based in Tampa, Florida USA- however Lisa is based in England, so with the time difference we are able to be on PPFL nearly 24/7, which is great. We feel PPFL is family!
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Hello Yanelis! How are you doing? Hello Raia. I am doing wonderful. Words cannot express how I feel, with the page growing so much every day. It is a wonderful feeling, which I know anyone that has a special dream project become a reality would feel.
few weeks we are having 3 new swaps (postcard, stickers, and candy swaps). We also have 166 members in our directory. This is one of the projects that we have grown so much on.
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Pen Pals for Life is a Facebook community for penpalling and swapping that we presented in our previous (April 2011) issue. We met with Yanelis from PPFL to further talk about penpalling and correspondence!
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