I have been reviewing my Socials recently. I have two weaknesses; this place and FaecesBook. FaecesBook is my way of staying in touch with Strayan family, this place is therapy.
My other memberships and postings are sporadic. I pushed back from X, Bluesky doesn’t sparkle, Insta isn’t my thing, YouTube is for music, and I have little interest in the others.
I have found the polarising nature of Social Media means that I lose patience and need to rant. This just causes more arguments, and really, I can’t be bothered. My misanthropy doesn’t allow me accept opinions as truth. People, generally, aren’t very knowledgeable about the subjects that they are commenting on. Look at any F1 thread. Anywhere.
I am on FaecesBook as a few old school friends and colleagues are on their plus a fairly tame area on my hometown history. But even then I occasioanly wince at what some former school friends post, but too distant to challenge/get involved. Most are sensible to perhaps keep their current views to themselves and some are on the same wavelength as myself, which is encouraging.
On LinkedIn for work but don’t really use beyond training stuff.
Left Twitter/X when Ketamine twat took over, and haven’t bothered with the rest.
Otherwise my socials are this place and similar Hifi or Railway forums.
Insta. Initially mostly for clothing, watches, music, however I must have lingered over something too long and I’m currently getting a fire hose of American rants and set-up stunts, which is annoying.
I have never posted.
Bluesky is quite funny. Given what it serves up to me I am apparently obsessed by rabbits, pet rats, the intricacies of being an author, and Pokémon.
In the past it has served up almost nothing except beefy guys in their underpants. Oh I went through a dragons phase too.
The music accounts that I left on Twitter have 90% moved to concentrate on Instagram.
I might have posted 5 times but even keeping it completely anodyne you’ll hear from hot-take merchants who appear to wilfully misinterpret absolutely everything.
I have never used any of what I call social media, ie, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
I use a couple of hifi forums and WhatsApp for a couple of groups I am in.
That’s it.
Apologies. I just did a reverse image search on one of the many oddball card things it show me and apparently it is “Magic: The Gathering” which is a trading card game. I do not know what that means.
If it’s any consolation, I must have left Facebook unattended near a train picture. Since then it’s been nothing but trains. This is at least very SFW but it’s not even interesting trains, just tedious modern ones.
This ^. Except I don’t do WhatsApp either. I almost got talked into it by a couple of friendly neighbours who use it to arrange actual real face-to-face social get-togethers. But sadly their landlord is selling their rental property out from under them so they’re moving away in a few weeks . I have posted a small handful of YouTube vids over the years but otherwise I never log in.
Twatter/X went a while ago due to vicious, nasty cunt.
Faeces, left years ago due to vicious, nasty cunts.
I’m here because it’s helped me. And because you’re all decent cunts.
Other than that, I’m involved with a couple of horsey betting stuff.
The rest of it can feck off due to nasty, vicious cunts.
I’ve always followed a policy of trying to leave little to no trace of myself on the internet. I think one’s private life should remain so. I can’t understand this modern obsession with crafting a public persona when you’re not a public figure.
I have no social media presence at all. I like to think my mental health benefits from this approach.
Brief dalliances with Reddit and Steve Hoffman have now faded away. I post regularly here and much less so on PFM where I avoid Off Topic with an almost religious zeal due to the large number of utter weapons and headbangers.
As is your wont, you’re probably overthinking things.
I’d agree that Faecesbook is useful for staying in touch with the diaspora (mostly friends here, since my fambly is too dysfunctional to communicate), and I’d agree the rest are largely pointless. I’ve baled on the same ones you have. Same shit, different logo.
You have to accept that they’re an algorithm-driven echo chamber designed to turn Your bullshit into space-rockets for unlovable squillionaires who were unpopular in school.
And YOU have to work at them.
Most of the people I hear moaning about 'em are putting fuck-all effort into them themselves. You have to actively and positively interact with the stuff you do like - and hide, report or block the stuff you don’t. And you have to keep doing it. That’s how the algorithm ‘works’.
Don’t do those things, and your feed soon becomes a sewer outfall of shitty paid-for cuntent [sic], and the stuff you want (and people you like) vanishes.
Used to be a member of several record related forums all of which have fragnented or died - Many of the guys went on to social media (mostly instagram). Perhaps it’s the ease of posting films images DM’s etc that made the old forum software seem clunky and limited? The ability to sell was probably the final nail.
Never posted on Twitter, Linked in is a dry lunch. Too old for Tik Tok’s brain stabbing doom scroll attractions. Facebook lost it’s vibe long ago and really feels top heavy with boomers I’d like to have as little to do with as possible. Threads just seems like click bait although I post pitcures of turntables on there for no apparent gain. 90% of my business today comes from Instagram.
Mine is more that I just don’t have the time to socialise like I did , though this month has been the exception with visits from family and the coupla friends I still bother with.
I’m happy with my lot.
I’m just less social in older age.
A lot of it is ferrying kids round so they are socialised very different to my own growing up which was much more extended family and the social Ife that was living on army bases where nothing was personal or private
. I have posted a small handful of YouTube vids over the years but otherwise I never log in.
