As it's me that puts the photos on the Facebook page, it's high time I answered!
I sympathise strongly with all of you who don't like using Facebook. Nor do I, and I have no personal use for it. But a great many people do use Facebook as their main point of internet access, especially I think outside western Europe - apart particularly from Trevor, the great majority of the people who use our Forum regularly are based there, whereas at least half the people who look at the Facebook page (now often over 1,000 a week) come from elsewhere, particularly Australia, USA, Israel, Lebanon, but masses of other places too. This gives them a glimpse of the MGS, and has plenty of links to put them in touch with it and perhaps join, so I'm convinced that it's worthwhile. (It's interesting that the weekly photos of the MGS garden at Sparoza are particularly popular.)
Though I do have a few kind offers of photos from other people (especially John Joynes - and I'm always hoping for more offers - hint hint!), almost all the photos are my own. Getting ones that I can cut to the right shape, and then doing the cutting, and putting them on each day, does take time, so unless I was convinced that doing it was really helping the Society I could hardly justify spending the time on it, however much I enjoy it. Especially as since I've been made president of the Society doing that job too is a huge call on my time anyway.
Reprocessing the day's Facebook cover for the Forum would it's true let me show the full picture and not just the wide low strip (it is a true undistorted cut-out, incidentally, and not "squashed flat"). But that picture is really meant just for our Facebook page, for all the people who look at that. I think it would be wonderful if someone else could take on the job of putting a daily picture on the Forum. For me though, even the few extra minutes each day that would be involved in reprocessing the Facebook picture for the Forum would I'm afraid simply be too much.