Half of my family acts like I don't exist because I'm not on FB. Apparently, a phone call or a text message is too antiquated for some people.
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How many of you DON'T have a Facebook or Twitter?
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Oh, dear. How would they react if you sent them a postcard, or birthday card, or something else via 'snail mail'?
We use FB for a communication tool to manage groups (for example, setup crews for an event, get a headcount/commitment), as a way to share photos and videos to a group (close family and friends), to get news and info (particularly local) with some immediacy, and to get some insight into local offerings (restaurants, concerts, runs).
We also use direct, more intimate modes of communication when that's a better option, be it a text, voice or video call, or something written.
I use a hammer for nails and a wrench for bolts ...
We also use direct, more intimate modes of communication when that's a better option, be it a text, voice or video call, or something written.
I use a hammer for nails and a wrench for bolts ...
I have ONE site where I can comment (this one). Other than that, NO social media at all.
Oh, and get off my damn lawn!
Oh, and get off my damn lawn!
Is it? Do people not advocate for taking responsibility for your actions in other countries? If not, then "guilty as charged."
Until relatively recently, this was the only social media site I ventured onto.
Nowadays, I keep an occasional eye on Twitter, too, as it is handy for political sources, and occasional literary stuff.
If that's all you got out of my post then you pretty much misunderstood it completely. Here's where I won't insert a snide comment about your background, however.
The poster to whom I replied had some concerns about who would see pictures of him doing things like drinking, getting drunk, etc. My advice was not to do something (or, at the very least, don't post pictures of something) that you don't want people to judge you for. If you feel like you need to hide it from someone, you probably shouldn't do it.
(BTW - not because I'm an American, but getting drunk and posting pictures of yourself as such is, in my opinion, childish and immature, regardless of one's nationality or calendar age.)
The poster to whom I replied had some concerns about who would see pictures of him doing things like drinking, getting drunk, etc. My advice was not to do something (or, at the very least, don't post pictures of something) that you don't want people to judge you for. If you feel like you need to hide it from someone, you probably shouldn't do it.
(BTW - not because I'm an American, but getting drunk and posting pictures of yourself as such is, in my opinion, childish and immature, regardless of one's nationality or calendar age.)
Never bothered with either and really don't see the point of people that i used to go to school with adding me lol .
Couldnt stand most then so I'm pretty sure much hasnt changed .
Couldnt stand most then so I'm pretty sure much hasnt changed .
Don't have either! Not interested in fake friends projecting their perfect (fake) lives. Not interested in listening to the idiots on Twitter who think they are the smartest things on the planet. Can't wait for the social media fad to go the way of AOL chat rooms.
I don't have either.
And here i was thought i was a loaner..... I always imagined since MR users would be more "geeky" they would be all over social networking.. i am wrong ?
There are few left...
Surely it depends upon how much real life experience you have? To put it into another context, that of war games on playboxes, if the nearest bomb to you killed five little kids who had alredy been bombed out once previusly, if the nearest sniper bullet missed by less than a yard, and if you were rescued from being hacked to death by a Gurkha patrol, who needs 'pretend" living? Similarly if you spend lots of time happilly helping frail and disabled people, who needs folks who deliberately stunt their mentality in darkened rooms? I no longer have any jobs on offer, but if I did I would look very closely at people who spend hou after hour on blind-alley posting before I hired them.
I don't have either. I lost contact with everyone after college so I didn't see the purpose to having either, and removed them both around 2012. Often times I do think about rejoining facebook to see if anyone would remember me, but then I realize I have nothing exciting in my life to share, so I'm better off.
We're in good company:
("Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 moonwalker, would like a word with you")
I have created both accounts to test the waters, and then I ran in the other direction as fast as my legs could go.
I've never used Facebook. I have a Twitter account, but I only use it for news. I never tweet.
My wife and I have talked about getting a joint Facebook account but I have little motivation to set it up.
My wife and I have talked about getting a joint Facebook account but I have little motivation to set it up.
I have and use Facebook. Had a Twitter account but I never used it. I just don't really see the point of it.
Yes, but the poster to whom you replied @Apple fanboy - made the valid point that when he was 18 (and drinking and getting drunk legally), it was almost unheard of to take photographs of yourself - or have photographs taken - unless it was at a party. That was something that his generation, and mine, rarely had to even think of.
I remember once taking my lovely Pentax camera to the pub, merely to take a few photographs of some friends and myself, before we had too much to drink - this was the early nineties - because I had so few pictures of them. Likewise, I took it onto the university campus a few times, just to snap a few 'ordinary' pictures, of day to day activity.
These days, obviously, it is very different, but some of it does come down to how you define your personal boundaries, and whether, merely because you are in a public space (such as a pub) you can be viewed (by others and yourself) as something to be 'consumed' on social media, or whether you see your life in terms of something which should be lived in the public space, hence 'selfless' and so on.
