Social Media

[Optimistic Paranoid]

My sentiments exactly . . .

 

[LeeRevell]

My sentiments exactly . . .

Haha! Personally I avoid "social media" like the plague. Tried farcebook once, had a very bad expetience. Will never do it again.
On the otherhand, farcebook, tweeter and the others are a boon to Law Enforcement. So many young idiots like to brag on their criminal misadventures. They provide their own proof to the courts.

 

[Gary68]

i'm so out of the loop i didnt get the joke but then again i am the last person in the country that doesnt own a cell phone,my sister gave me one last year,i drove to town into cell service to activate it then never touched it again

 

[Queen]

I don't care one way or the other about social media, I use it (facebook) to "like" my favorite businesses because very few update their websites as often as they do FB. But if it went away tomorrow I wouldn't care a bit, same with forums, online banking, and shopping sites. It's all convenient, but I've lived without it longer than it's been around, so I'd be fine.

 

[BobBski]

Hmmm, isn't this forum social media?

 

[poncho62]

Hmmm, isn't this forum social media?

Was just about to post that too.....I am on Facebook too.....It does get out of hand at times, but it has its uses for me....Keeps me up on friends, family etc

 

[OutdoorFT]

Hmmm, isn't this forum social media?

Yes but....the social media like fb, twitter, instagram whatever new ones came out recently are nothing more than platforms to show off/gain followers'. Heres my dinner from last night...

Since adults cant act like adults over an election, I scrapped my facebook. I dont talk to much family, so it wasnt much use to me. Was like quitting smoking...missed it for a few days, but Im better without it.

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

I'm getting ready to delete my facebook account. The last year or so i've noticed it just makes me angry and i'm about laid back as it comes normally. You can in fact know too much about people, and that's what i'm finding out about facebook.......I know way too many details about people's lives that I have no business knowing. The dirty laundry some people put out there is astonishing. The political discussions are the nail in the coffin, makes me very glad Bob keeps it off this forum, no faster way to alienate a friendship in my opinion.

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

Hmmm, isn't this forum social media?

That's a very interesting question.

I would tend to say no, because I would define the purpose of Social Media to, well, socialize.  Whereas I see this site, and the couple of other forums I check in on - a Ford Truck forum, and an overlanding forum, as a means of information exchange rather than a place to just hang out and socialize.

But I could be wrong.

 

[Wabbit]

I got off fb because it was upsetting to me. This forum is now my social moderated media. So feel free to PM me. Even if I disagree with you on almost everything(or vice versa) I'm sure we still have things in common on some level. I dont know ifI get what the illustrator meant with the comic strip, what I took away from it was along the lines of, doesn't matter if your sane, if everyone else is insane, then your sanity makes you the insane one. Or something like that.

 

[Queen]

I'm getting ready to delete my facebook account.  The last year or so i've noticed it just makes me angry and i'm about laid back as it comes normally.  You can in fact know too much about people, and that's what i'm finding out about facebook.......I know way too many details about people's lives that I have no business knowing.  The dirty laundry some people put out there is astonishing.  The political discussions are the nail in the coffin,  makes me very glad Bob keeps it off this forum, no faster way to alienate a friendship in my opinion.

I found myself "hiding" more posts than I was reading, even from those I agreed with, because people will not stop posting about politics.  Like you I'm usually laid back, and watching people be screaming angry all the time really harshed my mellow.  I kept my account but deleted all but about 20 friends, and visit the site infrequently.

 

[speedhighway46]

Talking religion and politics . . . best way to loose good friends.

I never did get the FB thing . . . I don't want to know all that stuff abt people I don't know.
Wanna be my friend; drop by and we'll drink a beer together.

Just my opinion . . .

 

[LeeRevell]

To my mind, "social media" is quite different and distinct from informational forums. Very different critters, even if we do tend to get chatty like they do on the teeny-bopper social sites.
I'd not shed a tear if all those vapid teeny-bopper sites got shut down.

 

[Queen]

I think the social media sites are, to the younger folks, like the telephone was to us and our parents generation. I used to come home from school and after dinner spend hours on the phone with my friends; no different than these kids chatting about the minutia of their day.

The downside is when people can't or won't step away from it to engage in real life. But it's all still new phenomenon, over time I hope it finds its balance and people can enjoy their online time and still enjoy the company of people, in person.

 

[ArtW]

When I cam home from school I went outside, or to a friend's house, or some such, never liked the phone at all
Then again, I tend to not say much, anyway
As far as FB, I'm on there, mainly for the FB 'buy, sell, trade, or services' subsets, because who gives a **** if 'John is gearing up for the weekend'?

 

[DuneElliot]

Three reasons I find a use for FB (I haven't gotten into Twitter or Instagram) is to stay in touch with friends and family who are all spread out across the world. Family in UK and the friends I grew up with in high school, friends from east to west coast and Canada to Mexico, not to mention those in other far flung countries. Without FB it would be damn near impossible to stay in touch with them all so it's convenient and thankfully 95% of my friends avoid posting political BS.
I also use it for the Buy, Sell, Trade sites since they seem to me way more efficient than Craigslist or paper ads. I also use it for certain businesses to see if and when they offer sales/coupon codes...like discounted flights etc

I think FB has its place for selective reasons and that's how I choose to use it.

 

[Queen]

When I cam home from school I went outside, or to a friend's house, or some such, never liked the phone at all
Then again, I tend to not say much, anyway
As far as FB, I'm on there, mainly for the FB 'buy, sell, trade, or services' subsets, because who gives a **** if 'John is gearing up for the weekend'?

LOL, you were/are a) not a girl, and b) probably not restricted to quarters (what military dads called being grounded, I spent a lot of time in that state)

 

[ArtW]

True, in fact Mom usually wanted us OUT of the house, where we could't break stuff or make more work for her
We'd have got restricted to quarters a lot more if she'd not run us out of the house
One time we got in trouble for playing in 'the doughnut' (SAC on base offices) but got off light because the Captain that caught us in there thought being saluted by a 5 and a 9 year old was 'cute'

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

I was out from sunrise to sunset. My mom says she doesn't know how parents do it now a days with the kids always being inside. I grew up in a neighborhood that I consider a kid's paradise. It was a small peninsula with one road in and marsh or ocean on three sides. The side with out water was a large section of woods with an abandoned rail road bed you could follow for miles. At the tip of the Peninsula was a large park with basketball court, baseball field, huge hill we used to use for sledding and playground equipment. And the bay that could take you to Boston Harbor wrapped around the perimeter of the park. This neighborhood has always attracted families because it's quiet and it's a dead end, no reason to be in there if you don't live there so there's no traffic. I grew up with dozens of kids my age and there were always kids at every corner growing up doing something or another. Now when I drive through it's like a ghost town, i've literally not seen a child outside in ten years, no one rides their bikes, no one goes to the park, no one sleds down the huge hill in winter. Yet I know there are at least 50-75 kids living in the neighborhood as we speak.

 

[ArtW]

If you stop and listen closely, you can hear the sound of 100-150 fingers twiddling joysticks and buttons, as parents wonder how, oh how, they will deal with childhood onset obesity
of course, those kids probably don't scare their mamas by shooting each other with BB guns lol