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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 12:58:52 GMT -5
I have Facebook, but I can't stand it. Most of the people I know locally don't use Twitter, but use Facebook - it is so peculiar to me how this seems to be a "Facebook town" - so I keep it around, but I don't like interacting on it and I hate the site's design and attitude.
I have Twitter, which I actually like a lot now, because I have a good list of people who I like to interact with regularly (mainly fellow BioWare nerds, photographers, and urban planning thinkers). I avoid the awful.
I used to be big on Instagram, but ever since Facebook bought it and decided what it needed was to have a bunch of bolted-on Snapchat knock-off features, I've completely stopped using it. I hate the "stories" feature and how I can't get rid of it.
I have Tumblr, which I used to be a frequent user of, but not as much these days. I technically have Snapchat but absolutely nobody I know uses it.
I also still have a Flickr account, and I still LOVE Flickr and wish more people used it. It's still my preferred photo-posting thing.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 7, 2017 17:28:03 GMT -5
Until recently, I did not have a tumblr, although I do visit several tumblrs frequently. A few weeks ago, a tumblr which tends to host NSFW pictures decided that I couldn't visit unless I had a tumblr account. So, reluctantly, I signed up. Avatar-comment synergy off the charts The thing about having an Instagram is that it's a great way to be reminded that most people have absolutely grotesque taste and will upvote the shit out of gaudy, awful, HDR images. I am seriously considering starting an instagram account where I document all the patina’d and not-perfectly-clean stuff I have/use/encounter every day. |
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Post by emmelemm on Sept 7, 2017 17:29:06 GMT -5
I know that having a social media footprint is a desirable thing for self-promotion, networking, and general job-getting purposes but I just can't bring myself to do it. I'm on Linkedin, but my account is woefully incomplete. That's it for me though. Same here. I've just never had a Facebook account (or any of that other stuff) and can't imagine having to know anything about what random acquaintances are thinking at all times. I understand that I'm clearly at a disadvantage in this modern world, especially since I may be job-looking soon, but my god, the horror! |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 7, 2017 17:55:20 GMT -5
Until recently, I did not have a tumblr, although I do visit several tumblrs frequently. A few weeks ago, a tumblr which tends to host NSFW pictures decided that I couldn't visit unless I had a tumblr account. So, reluctantly, I signed up. Avatar-comment synergy off the charts The thing about having an Instagram is that it's a great way to be reminded that most people have absolutely grotesque taste and will upvote the shit out of gaudy, awful, HDR images. I am seriously considering starting an instagram account where I document all the patina’d and not-perfectly-clean stuff I have/use/encounter every day. When I used to travel for work I kept planning to start a "Where the fuck did I park?" Instagram that would just be the pictures I took of the section signs in various parking ramps. You better believe I would apply shitty filters too.  |
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Post by louiebb on Sept 7, 2017 18:36:42 GMT -5
I avoided Facebook for a while until a former coworker convinced me to join around 2006. Since then it has become my primary means of keeping in touch with most of my computer-savvy family members and a lot of friends. It has also been responsible for me cutting off contact for good with several former friends over major political arguments, and unfriending my father a few weeks ago for the same thing. I don't miss most of the friends (except one), but the thing with my Dad makes me sad. I still talk to him on the phone anyway, and will probably see him every month or two as usual. (He's become increasingly insufferable, as I have mentioned in the irrational/rational anger threads, ever since Trump ran for president and Dad decided he and Bernie were kindred spirits...and then when Trump won he went full-on Breitbart and InfoWars reposter. The last straw was parroting the alt-right arguments about the Charlottesville protests. I am NOT putting up with that fucking shit!) And yeah, the attitude Facebook has of "We know what you want to look at better than you do, and we're not even going to give you a Settings option to override it, have fun remembering to choose Most Recent feed every time you look at your page!" infuriates me to no end. I have very nearly deleted my profile several times, but just can't if I want to keep in touch with my family. I have literally found out about special events at stores near me the day after they end because Facebook decided it was more important to fill my feed with my cousin's political posts because I liked a couple of them. Sorry about your dad. Could you... you know, turn him into a vampire? It'd probably be less evil in the end than an InfoWarser. |
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Sept 7, 2017 18:58:17 GMT -5
Facebook is how I keep in touch with people from grad school since we all live all around the world now. I have lots of people from elementary school and high school on there too but I don't really talk to them.
I don't really use Twitter except for gimmick accounts, because I might as well be shouting into a hole. Twitter is horrifying and awful if you scratch the surface just a little bit.
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Post by fab on Sept 8, 2017 7:59:25 GMT -5
And yeah, the attitude Facebook has of "We know what you want to look at better than you do, and we're not even going to give you a Settings option to override it, have fun remembering to choose Most Recent feed every time you look at your page!" infuriates me to no end. I have very nearly deleted my profile several times, but just can't if I want to keep in touch with my family. I have literally found out about special events at stores near me the day after they end because Facebook decided it was more important to fill my feed with my cousin's political posts because I liked a couple of them. I didn't even realize you could do this... which is even more infuriating, really. stupid facebook. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 8, 2017 9:58:53 GMT -5
I look at my Facebook feed... maybe once a month? The Facebook bookmark on my browser goes to my profile, so I can see if anyone's invited me to anything or whatever without ever having to see what other people are bullshitting about. Sometimes I'll go look at a particular person's profile to see what they're up to. And I talk to my mom on Messenger. I feel like this is an ideal way of using Facebook. Also, I have a barebones profile from which Zuckerberg can glean the absolute minimum about me.
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Post by Invisible Goat on Sept 8, 2017 10:09:51 GMT -5
I signed up for Facebook when it was a college student thing in like 2005. I don't think I've looked at it more than 2 or 3 times since it was opened to the public. I should delete it but I don't even want to log in.
Twitter I am addicted to and it has made me an even more miserable person than I was before. I don't post much myself because I have few friends/followers so what's the point, it's just the stream of content and info that has me hooked. It is genuinely useful for following sports, music, etc.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 8, 2017 11:07:22 GMT -5
My daughter has an Instagram account and asked if she could get a snapchat account when she turns 16 next week. I'm not ready for that, so maybe at 17.
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Sept 8, 2017 11:11:49 GMT -5
I look at my Facebook feed... maybe once a month? The Facebook bookmark on my browser goes to my profile, so I can see if anyone's invited me to anything or whatever without ever having to see what other people are bullshitting about. Sometimes I'll go look at a particular person's profile to see what they're up to. And I talk to my mom on Messenger. I feel like this is an ideal way of using Facebook. Also, I have a barebones profile from which Zuckerberg can glean the absolute minimum about me. I use FB Messenger more than I use FB. I suspended my account last summer (still allows you to use messenger) as I was just sick of it. Fired it up after Charlottesville, but am already sick of it again and will probably shut it down again soon. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 8, 2017 11:57:06 GMT -5
I tend to only check facebook when facebook sends me an email says “Hey, person you actually know posted a photo!” or “People are trying to contact you please log in” or some stuff like that.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 9, 2017 9:07:27 GMT -5
I recognize that many people's lives do not allow them to evacuate Florida when we did. But most of the people I follow on FB who live in Cocoa Beach could have done so long ago. And the hubris of the guy who says that because its not going to be a direct hit on CB that it's just going to be a "mild breeze" and so there's no reason for him to leave makes me want to punch him (except because I work out with him at Crossfit, I know that he's way stronger than I am).
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 9, 2017 9:17:21 GMT -5
I have facebook, but mainly use it to click like on satirical news outlet headlines (our UK ones, not The Onion). And to keep an eye on one or two people, I suppose.
I started a facebook page for my private classes, wherein I would comment sardonically on how things had gone that night, or post pictures of the writers we looked at, or linked to competitions and opportunities. My main motivation for doing this was to attract new students to the classes. When it was plain, after about 18 months, that this wasn't going to happen, I stopped bothering with the fucking thing.
No twitter, instagram, tumblr, pinterest, anything like that.
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Sept 9, 2017 9:38:41 GMT -5
I recognize that many people's lives do not allow them to evacuate Florida when we did. But most of the people I follow on FB who live in Cocoa Beach could have done so long ago. And the hubris of the guy who says that because its not going to be a direct hit on CB that it's just going to be a "mild breeze" and so there's no reason for him to leave makes me want to punch him (except because I work out with him at Crossfit, I know that he's way stronger than I am). My mom said she plans on "riding it out." But then again, she's always been kind of an asshole like that. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Sept 9, 2017 15:43:53 GMT -5
I had a Facebook account for exactly one week back in 2008, at the urging of friends and family. I did not know what to do with it. I never posted anything and just found the whole thing boring and awkward. To this day people still look at me like I have three heads when I tell them I don't have a Facebook. I somewhat enjoyed Twitter for about 8 months, but I followed too many accounts and it got really political to the point where it was bringing me down and started to feel like work to keep up with. For me, Instagram is where it's at. I like taking pictures and seeing pictures. The accounts I follow are mostly bands/musicians, photographers, breweries, beard models (shut up, it's a thing) and tattoo artists. It's a gallery of my favorite things without a lot of yap-yap going on. However, I rarely post a picture of myself and will quickly un-follow an account if it is a constant stream of selfies. I know what you look like, good grief. Not cool. Wait, BEARD MODELS?  ::runs to IG to check who Smacky follows:: ::starts following beard models:: The only social media thing I use is Instagram, and I hate hate hated it for a long time. Flickr was my jam for many years, and I had a wonderful little hopping community of friends and actually nice photos. Then they all moved to IG, which has none of the things I liked about Flickr other than, at a very basic level, a notion that it's about photos. I raged against the storm on that front for years, but finally relented when it became clear it was the only way I was willing to keep in touch with my wastrel brother. And goddammit, it eventually won me over. I never use my real camera anymore, and haven't taken a nice photo in probably two years, but since there's no one else using Flickr anymore I guess I have to be where the people are. (I like that, for the most part, IG is the gentler, mellower social media place.) (But I hate typing on my phone.) (And I hate my shitty phone camera, and the shitty photos it takes.) |
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Post by Judkins Moaner on Sept 10, 2017 9:13:31 GMT -5
I first signed up for MySpace to keep in touch with my friend/former crush in Ohio, and quickly learned that pretty much everyone in my then-social circle had profiles thereon. I and all of the latter made the mass exodus to Facebook around 2007-08, and it was great fun for a while. I may have avoided the fatigue everyone else seemed to take on earlier largely because I didn't have home Internet until 2009. Only then was I able to catch up with the world of memes and YouTube clips that had been second-nature for just about everyone else I knew.
Social life in our town's a little... atomized? and it was almost as valuable a way to keep in touch with friends in the same town as it was my farflung family. Between the election and the aftermath, though, I've been spending less and less time on FB. It isn't as inimical to nuance as Twitter (my friend got me to sign up for it and I think I've maybe Tweeted six or seven times in four years) but just as friendly to dipshit hot takes. There are weeks and weeks when I don't check it at all except to make sure I don't need to wish anyone a happy birthday. That's useful.
At one of the Drink and Draws my LCS put on over the past year, I learned that a number of fellow participants had Instagram accounts, partly to showcase their work, and so I signed up for one. Posted a few, followed a few, and got a few likes, but I'm still getting the hang of instinctively updating (doesn't help that my production's so erratic for various reasons).
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Sept 13, 2017 19:18:08 GMT -5
Let me see if I can recall all my social media thingies.
I've had a Hotmail account since the mid-90's, and a Yahoo account since 1999. Nowadays I mostly just use Hotmail to register for websites, and also to get emails from Dad, who blocked my Yahoo account years ago when it started sending spam. I just started using Gmail this year, because of my writing group.
I have a DeviantArt account, where I mostly just lurk, but also post art on the rare occasions I think it's good enough. Also I have lurker accounts, with no content, on… a couple of other art sites which I won't mention. I used to have an Elfwood account, but that site seems to be gone.
I got a FaceBook account about 4 years ago, I think, to keep in touch with people I met in comedy class. I kept up with everyone's posts for about a year (I've never had more than 50 friends) then gave up. Now I only pop in to check messages. The political memes annoyed me, and for I while I tried making some of my own funny ones, but they never caught on. (I keep wondering if I should post them here.)
I just joined Tumblr, but I probably will never post, just lurk. I also have a blogspot, where I rant about how much I hate religion. Nobody reads it, and I think that's for the best. It's mainly therapeutic.
ETA: oh, and of course AV Club, and then Disqus when AV Club switched to Disqus.
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Post by ganews on Sept 16, 2017 19:40:50 GMT -5
I got Facebook in 2005 before Wifemate was Wifemate, just to mark a relationship status. I have always had the same profile pic, the back of my head while looking at an alpaca on July 4th 2005. I use it to chat with somebody once every couple of years. Otherwise I use it for the group pages for my pickup games and nothing else.
I have ResearchGate for professional purposes. And of course an ORCID id number. I used to apply for jobs on LinkedIn, now I cross-post to it and the website I manage for my regional professional discussion group.
I have a Twitter that I look at very sporadically, but I only follow people from here/ABC.
Targeted ads don't bother me, it's creepy but I'm not going to buy their shit anyway. Spend your money on advertising all you want, suckers.
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Post by Mars Defense Perimeter on Sept 16, 2017 21:43:37 GMT -5
After probably ten plus years on Facebook, I have 36 friends. This includes my wife and two year old daughter.
Facebook, like all social media, is a fantastic way to measure the effect you've had on the world. When I die, my few computer-proficient friends will turn it into a memorial page which will probably be visited by five people.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 16, 2017 22:02:07 GMT -5
After probably ten plus years on Facebook, I have 36 friends. This includes my wife and two year old daughter. Facebook, like all social media, is a fantastic way to measure the effect you've had on the world. When I die, my few computer-proficient friends will turn it into a memorial page which will probably be visited by five people. Why does your two-year-old daughter have a Facebook? |
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Post by Mars Defense Perimeter on Sept 16, 2017 23:29:14 GMT -5
After probably ten plus years on Facebook, I have 36 friends. This includes my wife and two year old daughter. Facebook, like all social media, is a fantastic way to measure the effect you've had on the world. When I die, my few computer-proficient friends will turn it into a memorial page which will probably be visited by five people. Why does your two-year-old daughter have a Facebook? Well, we're trying to work on her socialization skills. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 16, 2017 23:39:44 GMT -5
Why does your two-year-old daughter have a Facebook? Well, we're trying to work on her socialization skills. Seems legit. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 17, 2017 7:18:04 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and fuck the people on my feed who are posting that if I left Florida for hurricane Irma that I am not a real Floridian.
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Post by fab on Sept 18, 2017 7:07:28 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and fuck the people on my feed who are posting that if I left Florida for hurricane Irma that I am not a real Floridian. some folks need a crash course in how disaster planning works.  |
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Post by MissBeaHaven on Sept 27, 2017 11:01:17 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and fuck the people on my feed who are posting that if I left Florida for hurricane Irma that I am not a real Floridian. Who the fuck? I can't even fathom how deep the asshole gene has to go for someone to even think that, never mind saying it out loud on social media. "I've got a 3ft length of rusty rebar sticking out of my abdomen, and I can't currently see you 'cause of all the splinters that flew into my eyeballs at 120 MPH after the roof got torn off, but hey, I'M A REAL FLORIDIAN!!"
I understand why people choose to stay during evacs sometimes, especially when people are extremely low-income. I try not to judge because sometimes they see it as "Fuck it, if my house gets blown down, I won't have anything left to live for anyway, so I'll go down with it if I have to", among hundreds of other reasons. Same goes for anyone who chooses to leave, no matter what part of the state they live in and no matter where the 'Cone of Uncertainty' says the storm will likely hit. THEIR lives, THEIR family, THEIR homes, THEIR choice. "REAL Floridian". That kind of shit can be fun to joke about in jest, but during a real emergency? Yeah, I hope the people who said that had hurricane kits stocked full-up with big ol' cans of non-perishable "Go Fuck Yourself".
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 28, 2017 6:30:28 GMT -5
One of the Kardashians is pregnant. I keep being reminded of this by a number of Facebook posts telling me that they don't care about this.
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Post by fab on Sept 28, 2017 6:46:37 GMT -5
One of the Kardashians is pregnant. I keep being reminded of this by a number of Facebook posts telling me that they don't care about this. delicious lack of self awareness irony! a single social media post is all you really need for your monthly intake thereof. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Nov 6, 2017 18:35:10 GMT -5
My Aunt came to visit to see my daughter in her play. I posted a picture of her to Facebook and tagged my aunt so the rest of my family would see it. Now people I don't know are replying to the picture trying to start conversation with my aunt. Why would they think that is the place to do it?
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Dec 13, 2017 11:17:37 GMT -5
Was going to write more detail, but let's just say that I have no idea how to react when someone who I know has a very different political view than me likes a political post I made (in this case, the gerrymanding tweet that monodrone shared on the US Politics thread). I want to ask them if they actually understand what it was they just liked. |
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