Facebook/Google Plus/Twitter—Does anyone here LIKE social media networks?

WT Sharpe · 10-04-2012, 06:33 PM

Having just read through the "Gah! Facebook!" thread and seeing that we appear to have a lot of people here who are somewhat less than enchanted by the big social media networks, I couldn't help but wonder—is there anyone here who actually likes any of these sites? While not a big poster on Facebook, for example, I do find it a convenient way to keep up with family members and things that are happening in their life. Not to mention it's a great way to find out about things our son won't tell us but has no compunction about sharing with the world.

Do you use any of them on a regular or semi-regular basis?

red_phoenix · 10-04-2012, 06:42 PM

I have a Twitter account I never use.

It seems really ironic to me that I am a member of MR but I toally boycott Facebook/Twitter/Google Plus.

If I had to give a reason it would be security, or lack thereof, that seems to be a major problem, or was a major problem, with these sites. That and I just do not think I am an interesting enough person to have people wanting to know what I am up to every minute of every day.

WT Sharpe · 10-04-2012, 06:48 PM

I used to be quite active on MySpace, but it got old after a while. Not that many of my relatives were active on it, though, and that makes a difference. Some of my relatives are almost daily posters on Facebook, especially the younger set, but I see posts from ones my age and older as well.

montsnmags · 10-04-2012, 06:51 PM

I use Twitter constantly. Much of my consumption of current event and issue discussion arises from Twitter, and its micro-contact/blogging form is highly compatible with my extremely limited social skills and needs - it is most of my social sphere (online and IRL). Also, I indulge myself in my penchant for absurdity with nary a smidge of feedback other than the occasional unfollow, so there's that. I also get more out of television by watching it in the company of Twitter, either with joint enthusiasm or injecting pleasure into stale reality TV via communal derision. It is all fun & games. I like it. It's the only social media that works for me. Oh, I also tweet the occasional photo for ego-feed, which is nice.

I dislike Facebook. I have a Google+ account which has been closed and opened a few times. I prefer its control and relative simplicity, but barely post.

I am @ozlangur on Twitter. You won't like me, and I'm frequently childish, ridiculous, melancholy, sweary, dull & NSFW. So don't follow me.

But I like Twitter. A lot.

Cheers,
Marc

John Carroll · 10-04-2012, 08:33 PM

I like facebook a lot. My emo bunnies and I keep up with all the insane people I know, especially my family.

I also like twitter because it allows me to jot down all the random, nonsensical thoughts that float through my head.

amward · 10-05-2012, 02:09 AM

Nope!

Piper_ · 10-05-2012, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

While not a big poster on Facebook, for example, I do find it a convenient way to keep up with family members and things that are happening in their life. Not to mention it's a great way to find out about things our son won't tell us but has no compunction about sharing with the world.

Exactly the same here. LOL What kills me is seeing how little discretion my kids use in posting/tweeting the most personal and trivial things, then hearing them call it "creeping my FB" when friends/family actually read them. :what:

Quote:

Do you use any of them on a regular or semi-regular basis?

Very, very rarely.
Guess I'm just a creeper.

melmac · 10-05-2012, 03:18 AM

I use both but prefer Twitter. Yay to a few positive replies now I have a few more fellow mobilreaders to follow

pholy · 10-05-2012, 04:36 PM

I might get on Twitter just so I can follow @ozlangur

oh, and @eproduction (or however it's spelled)

But don't hold your breath.

WT Sharpe · 10-05-2012, 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piper_

...LOL What kills me is seeing how little discretion my kids use in posting/tweeting the most personal and trivial things....

That's our experience; except our son is 38 years old.

Our daughter uses more discretion, thankfully.

Heck, even our teenage grandson uses more discretion (the granddaughters aren't old enough to be interested in social media).

WT Sharpe · 10-05-2012, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pholy

I might get on Twitter just so I can follow @ozlangur

oh, and @eproduction (or however it's spelled)

But don't hold your breath.

There are a couple that I follow. Nate's tweets are of special interest to MobileReaders:

Nate the great ‏@thDigitalReader

Then there's this guy:

kindlekitten · 10-13-2012, 03:10 PM

I'm frustrated with both of them, we are encouraged to use them so people "like" us and will do business with us. I can't even remember my handles 90% of the time. maybe I'll look them up and post them here, maybe if I get "popular" I'll be the next big deal

Hamlet53 · 10-13-2012, 03:39 PM

The only social media site I have ever used is Facebook, and I actually find it useful. It let's me keep up with going on in the lives of close friends and family, we can exchange interesting or funny stuff we find on the web, and I also have “liked” a lot of sites and that keeps me up with new happenings, material, and in the case of public radio program Facebook pages alerts me before hand to broadcasts I might want to listen to. I do have a very small set of “friends” though, just people I really know well and like in real life.

Some of my family and friends on Facebook really seem to lose any sense of proper restraint in their posts though. These people also seem to have a huge lists of “friends” as well, often in the 100s. The deeply personal information that they essentially broadcast to 400, 500, 600 people, most of whom they only know on line, astounds me. In an extreme example I never saw anything before like all the back and forth of a very messy divorce put out there by a splitting couple. Add into that all the comments from many of both of their “friends,” often “friends” of both, and what a soap opera.

spindlegirl · 10-13-2012, 03:44 PM

I have facebook and twitter, but don't like them much. I do more reading than blabbing.
I went on facebook to shut people up, mostly. I go and I play a couple of the games and ignore my "friends".

I unfriended about 180 people after my mother died. They were the ones who were active, online, and who forwarded me silly jokes but couldn't be bothered to say something comforting to me, they had not even noticed I posted about it. (And others who had had me hidden.... i mean sheesh, why bother?)

Facebook is so fake at times. Only people I have kept on are those who are real life people who we have a mutual interest in each other, after all that is what it really SHOULD be for when I'm using it as a social media thing.

captkjaneway · 10-19-2012, 12:06 AM

I used Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends. As I travel so much for work, it allows me to post a very short message to say where I am and that I'm ok, so my old dear doesn't have to worry too much.

My sister sadly uses it to comment on anything and everything, and I recently had to switch off a friend as her pro-semetic rantings got a bit too much for this poor lapsed Catholic....

10-04-2012, 06:33 PM	#1
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,073 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Facebook/Google Plus/Twitter—Does anyone here LIKE social media networks? Having just read through the "Gah! Facebook!" thread and seeing that we appear to have a lot of people here who are somewhat less than enchanted by the big social media networks, I couldn't help but wonder—is there anyone here who actually likes any of these sites? While not a big poster on Facebook, for example, I do find it a convenient way to keep up with family members and things that are happening in their life. Not to mention it's a great way to find out about things our son won't tell us but has no compunction about sharing with the world. Do you use any of them on a regular or semi-regular basis?

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10-04-2012, 06:42 PM	#2
red_phoenix Grand Sorcerer Posts: 18,417 Karma: 445850508 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Sony PRS-T1	I have a Twitter account I never use. It seems really ironic to me that I am a member of MR but I toally boycott Facebook/Twitter/Google Plus. If I had to give a reason it would be security, or lack thereof, that seems to be a major problem, or was a major problem, with these sites. That and I just do not think I am an interesting enough person to have people wanting to know what I am up to every minute of every day.

10-04-2012, 06:48 PM	#3
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,073 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	I used to be quite active on MySpace, but it got old after a while. Not that many of my relatives were active on it, though, and that makes a difference. Some of my relatives are almost daily posters on Facebook, especially the younger set, but I see posts from ones my age and older as well.

10-04-2012, 06:51 PM	#4
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	I use Twitter constantly. Much of my consumption of current event and issue discussion arises from Twitter, and its micro-contact/blogging form is highly compatible with my extremely limited social skills and needs - it is most of my social sphere (online and IRL). Also, I indulge myself in my penchant for absurdity with nary a smidge of feedback other than the occasional unfollow, so there's that. I also get more out of television by watching it in the company of Twitter, either with joint enthusiasm or injecting pleasure into stale reality TV via communal derision. It is all fun & games. I like it. It's the only social media that works for me. Oh, I also tweet the occasional photo for ego-feed, which is nice. I dislike Facebook. I have a Google+ account which has been closed and opened a few times. I prefer its control and relative simplicity, but barely post. I am @ozlangur on Twitter. You won't like me, and I'm frequently childish, ridiculous, melancholy, sweary, dull & NSFW. So don't follow me. But I like Twitter. A lot. Cheers, Marc

10-04-2012, 08:33 PM	#5
John Carroll kookoo Posts: 1,461 Karma: 7772454 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Colorado Springs Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Nook, LG4	I like facebook a lot. My emo bunnies and I keep up with all the insane people I know, especially my family. I also like twitter because it allows me to jot down all the random, nonsensical thoughts that float through my head.

10-05-2012, 02:09 AM	#6
amward Wizard Posts: 1,299 Karma: 2081110 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: SW Australia Device: Eco Eclipse, Sony PRS 350 (pink), Ipod Touch, Kindle Touch	Nope!

10-05-2012, 03:18 AM	#8
melmac Wizard Posts: 1,399 Karma: 5573651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Perth AU Device: Sony PRS650, Sony T3	I use both but prefer Twitter. Yay to a few positive replies now I have a few more fellow mobilreaders to follow

10-05-2012, 04:36 PM	#9
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	I might get on Twitter just so I can follow @ozlangur oh, and @eproduction (or however it's spelled) But don't hold your breath.

10-13-2012, 03:10 PM	#12
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	I'm frustrated with both of them, we are encouraged to use them so people "like" us and will do business with us. I can't even remember my handles 90% of the time. maybe I'll look them up and post them here, maybe if I get "popular" I'll be the next big deal

10-13-2012, 03:39 PM	#13
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	The only social media site I have ever used is Facebook, and I actually find it useful. It let's me keep up with going on in the lives of close friends and family, we can exchange interesting or funny stuff we find on the web, and I also have “liked” a lot of sites and that keeps me up with new happenings, material, and in the case of public radio program Facebook pages alerts me before hand to broadcasts I might want to listen to. I do have a very small set of “friends” though, just people I really know well and like in real life. Some of my family and friends on Facebook really seem to lose any sense of proper restraint in their posts though. These people also seem to have a huge lists of “friends” as well, often in the 100s. The deeply personal information that they essentially broadcast to 400, 500, 600 people, most of whom they only know on line, astounds me. In an extreme example I never saw anything before like all the back and forth of a very messy divorce put out there by a splitting couple. Add into that all the comments from many of both of their “friends,” often “friends” of both, and what a soap opera.

10-13-2012, 03:44 PM	#14
spindlegirl Wizard Posts: 1,594 Karma: 21245891 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra h20, Paperwhite 2017, Phone & Tablet w Moonreader	I have facebook and twitter, but don't like them much. I do more reading than blabbing. I went on facebook to shut people up, mostly. I go and I play a couple of the games and ignore my "friends". I unfriended about 180 people after my mother died. They were the ones who were active, online, and who forwarded me silly jokes but couldn't be bothered to say something comforting to me, they had not even noticed I posted about it. (And others who had had me hidden.... i mean sheesh, why bother?) Facebook is so fake at times. Only people I have kept on are those who are real life people who we have a mutual interest in each other, after all that is what it really SHOULD be for when I'm using it as a social media thing.

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10-19-2012, 12:06 AM	#15
captkjaneway Cockney Sci-Fi Geek! Posts: 472 Karma: 1463094 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Samsung Tab S 8.4", Samsung S6 Edge	I used Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends. As I travel so much for work, it allows me to post a very short message to say where I am and that I'm ok, so my old dear doesn't have to worry too much. My sister sadly uses it to comment on anything and everything, and I recently had to switch off a friend as her pro-semetic rantings got a bit too much for this poor lapsed Catholic....