Blogs. Yes. I forgot blogs. That's another favorite feature.
Sorry Mary, I didn't mean to be blunt in my earlier statement, nor did I mean to negate your words. To me ATP is primarily an excellent informative gardening website. The social aspect of it contributes to making it so. We all work well together to help make it excellent and informative. We've learned of each others strengths and we rely on each other for information. That's the social part as I see it.
We are all right in that we each take from a site exactly what we need from it. And as I've moved from site to site over the years, I've brought my friends right along with me. We tend to congregate where our like minded friends are and as I said earlier, while searching through forums for information, if we stop and chat awhile, that's good too.