Social Media

[silver gurl]

How has it changed you? Good, bad, ugly?

For awhile it was just an easy way to share information with friends and family.
Then I began to follow a few pages and folks.
This week someone I spoke with on occasion and followed their journey, passed suddenly.
His sudden passing was posted on their FB page. It kind of shook me up. Years ago, this type of communication did not exist.
RIP Captain Luis.

 

[Ms_Ann]

It should really be called antisocial media.

 

[nerfhearder]

I'm on FB and Twitter but don't use them. Sometimes I'll scroll through FB just to see but it's rarely anything interesting. Twitter was fun for about 5 minutes then people thought it made them important and everyone started tweeting stupid shit and I got annoyed. Be funny or shut up, I say. Only others tho. Never apply that to myself.

I honestly have no idea what Instagram is for. I can post pics on the others so I never saw much need for it and certainly wouldn't use it now after learning the others suck ass.

Somebody needs to tell me something they got my number.

 

[silver gurl]

I guess I am more of a Facebook person. Due to family and friends. But I always feel odd when a friend passes on my friend list. I don't delete them.
I don't tweet or do Instagram. I don't think anyone would care for what I said, on those platforms.

 

[ifrtbttrflys]

Childhood used to be the general time when kids could ease into reality, directed by many caring parents who knew the difference between real life and the word, "Action!" Today, there's no such thing as reality to all the little special snowflakes who know and crave nothing but showtime.

Spoiled snowflakedom as plastic life: I can only imagine the unavoidable meltdown trauma ahead for so many, many of these kids.

Their Tube: When every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/st...ecorded-and-shared-what-happens-to-childhood/

 

[nerfhearder]

It's a necessary evil.

What's necessary about it? We'd still have phones, the internet, etc. If all forms of social media disappeared overnight nothing would change much.

 

[Libsam]

I enjoy looking at pictures of my family and friends, and for shopping stuff- products, reviews, promotions.

My page is blank.

 

[silver gurl]

What's necessary about it? We'd still have phones, the internet, etc. If all forms of social media disappeared overnight nothing would change much.

Actually I think it would change. Do you realize how many people left boards like these, because they could connect FB, Twitter etc

 

[nerfhearder]

Actually I think it would change. Do you realize how many people left boards like these, because they could connect FB, Twitter etc

So what? What's so necessary about this place?

 

[nerfhearder]

I live 7,000 miles away from one half of my family and 3400 miles away from the other half. Staying in touch was very different than before we all had Facebook. Most of them didn't have long-distance calling plans, so I had to make all the calls. Just remembering now how horrible the connections were. The echoing and hearing your own voice on their end of the line. They were not fun times.

How does any of that make social media necessary? If you have FB you got email. If you've got a phone you have text.
International rates may make texting difficult but email is always free and easy.
Not to mention skype and all that bullshit.
There is absolutely nothing necessary about social media. Not now or ever. People have it because it's fun.

 

[OldJourno]

I shun social media. Before I retired I was pressured to Tweet and have a Facebook whatever to put in shit about the newspaper.
I never got around to it.

 

[nerfhearder]

I shun social media. Before I retired I was pressured to Tweet and have a Facebook whatever to put in shit about the newspaper.
I never got around to it.

My job made me get linkdin but I never used it. Have long forgotten my username and password. Not even sure what email I used for it. Silly thing anyway. It's FB for people with jobs.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Twitter and Instagram on the daily. Don't have much time for any other social media apps and the ones I see with similar functions aren't a need for me when these two do the do perfectly. Periscope is great, too. It's a shame Vine is shutting down, it was good at what it did, but Instagram is usurping its function.

Facebook is better for families, Snapchat doesn't really draw me in. I have a LinkedIn, but don't really use it. I do find people who are making those platforms work for them in both business and the personal. It's best to know the kind of person you are in terms of how you socialize and find comfortability in communicating with others. You find your fit within the various forms of social media better.

For those who say social media platforms aren't "necessary," and think subjective viewpoints over communication technologies in the negative are absolutes, well...you just aren't made for it and you don't need them. Hey, no biggie, life goes on.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Rarely do I check FB. No interest or clue in any other.

Lots of ways to stay connected to long distance friends and family via computers and WWW.

Was a time when mobile phones were not a necessity. Now landlines are becoming obsolete or at least redundant.

For many its a generational thing. I got friends 10-15 years older than me who don't even have computers or mobile phones.

My fishing club nixed getting a FB account due to fears of online predators. A bit old fashioned and conservative decision I thought. Most organizations even child orientated ones have FB.

Way way back in the far away time (20 years) many of us had high hopes for the freedom, just shy of anarchy, of the WWW. The first ad banners and group registration requirements put an end to that. But the myriad ways of connecting and what you can do over the WWW has surpassed many expectations.

 

[warrior queen]

Got to love the folks that deride social media, but haven't really used any sites.
I can't imagine not having fb - it keeps me up-to-date with all my family spread around the world and they with me.
We all still use email, phone calls and snail-mail, but closed social media circles mean we also get little snippets of daily life (as well as up to the minute info when someone is ill, etc.)
It has trully connected us across the planet and I, for one, am gratefull for it

 

[NOIRTRASH]

40 years ago I did CB radio (KAIW4742) then Ham radio (KC4LJ), then Army Mars (AAT4WS)._

 

[Not Normal]

I like the immediacy of Twitter. I've met a bunch of other cool audio pros there, learned about cool things, and I use it a bit like skimming the headlines back in the day. I can find world events and then read linked articles, or not. Plus, Neko Case responded to me a couple times.

 

[OldJourno]

Embarrassing confession

Years ago I received an email from one of those social sites. It may have been LinkedIn. Maybe not.
Anyway, the email said a good friend of mine really, really wanted me to join.
I deleted it. A few days later I received a second email about my friend so, without thinking, I went ahead and started the signup process.
Let me repeat, without thinking.
Next thing I know, I've given the questionnaire permission to raid my email contacts account and send them all emails, from me, telling them I really, really wanted them to join me at LinkedIn. Or whoever it was.
As soon as I pushed the button I knew I'd effed up big time.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I like FB and I have a LinkedIn account that I rarely mess with. I've tried most of the other things, but they never took. It's easy to get overwhelmed with all that nonsense and I try to live a simple life.