How do you guys feel about social media

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Such as, Facebook and Twitter? I've abstained from them for while now for my own personal reasons. Besides the constant monitoring, advertising, and time wasting that is found on these websites, I feel like an idiot whenever I want to say something, because all anyone wants to talk about is silly poop and boogers. Anyway, I will continue to abstain from social media, but what are your opinioins on this matter?


Yes, I know this is social media, but its not the same.

On a side note, I've read many pseudoscience papers relating abstaing from social media to personality disorders like psychopathy, or that you're just a self-centered as*hole. It just makes me angry because people read this and are manipulated into using their website that will collect everything about them and suck away their life. #Notaconspiracytheorist

I've tried my best to stay as far away from them as possible. However, because I have a book coming out this year, the publisher wants all of their authors to market their works using social media. Against my wishes I've had to create a Twitter and Facebook account. I rarely visit them, but I suspect that with the book's release, I'll be encouraged to network more.

I'm not particularly active on social media because I more or less consider it to be a waste of time. I do, however, use the chat feature on facebook to keep in touch with the few friends I have managed to make because it's just the easiest way for us to stay in touch.

I use Facebook, but I have very little information available and primarily log in to plan, check up, or comment. It's pretty easy to ignore or avoid whatever I dislike about it, layout changes excluded.

I like Facebook because it lets me see what's going on with certain family members. I have about 25 Facebook "friends". Most are relatives.

Sometimes I post something simple and funny like this:
http://funnylolpictures.com/wp-content/ ... -birds.jpg

But usually I just lurk. I have no interest in Twitter whatsoever.

On a personal level I have a Facebook account that lets me find out what people I know are doing but I rarely post. I occasionally comment or 'like' to show interest. I also have a Twitter account that again keeps me in touch but mostly with organisations and I rarely tweet (hate that expression).
However, I help to run a business and we use Facebook and Twitter as free advertising and it is quite effective.

I dislike it. Try leaving a social media outlet, and the cult mentality kicks in. It's like "how dare you not be my audience member anymore!"

I hate the fact that people don't trust anyone who isn't on facebook (Oh noes, he doesn't have a facebook, he must be a serial killer!! ! Actually, a serial killer is more likely to have a facebook account... anyway...). People don't like people they can't find out everything on.
I have a facebook account I use to join groups mostly, to have discussions with people. I also do mediocre social experiments but most people don't really care about my "weird" posts. I do a post on how we can save the world or something serious, and maybe one or two people will "like" it. But I posted that there was an annoying beep somewhere in my house and I suddenly got spammed by people!! -_-;

I have about 25 Facebook friends, all family/accquantances with 2 or 3 real friends, I chose not to accpet requests from people I don't know in real life as thats kind of creepy. I recently found and friended a good childhood friend I had not seen in a decade(11 or 12 years old) who I think may be aspie in hindsight so I am very excited about that! I have 2 friends who live out of my area so thats why I joined late last year, FB does its job no matter how depressing doing things like looking up my former classmates may be.

Haven't tryed twitter, I doubt I could make my point in 120 characters or less!

I think youtube should be considered "social media" at this point as well, since there are a lot of people who do communicate with each other on their for the expressed reason of social interaction (mostly vloggers). On that note, one may as well also conclude that forums like this count as well.

To answer your question as to what I think of them:
It's all the same to me, 90% of what I do and say is ignored by 99% of all people who hear/see it, so it's no different to me than real life, either way, I'm isolated.

I have a facebook account with 40 friends.
They are relatives and colleagues. I never add anyone I have never actually met in real life.
I use it to keep in touch with people far away (like my cousin in germany for example).


I have a twitter account which i use for anime and basketball news.
It can be good for a laugh and sometimes u find out stuff before it gets put in the papers.

U do have to be mindful when choosing who to follow or add though. there are loads of people that post stuff that shouldn't be posted really.

I use Facebook and Sina microblog (Chinese counterpart to Twitter). Facebook is for keeping in touch with friends. I had to hide certain people's posts from my News Feed. For instance, when I left my previous job a few years back and some acquaintances kept posting about the expensive restaurants they were going to and the branded goods they were buying (they were unaware of my situation). It didn't feel good to keep seeing that, but I didn't want to delete those people either.

I registered on Sina microblog for following Chinese celebrities' posts. Over time I started to follow skincare and makeup gurus as well. It's useful the way I can save and tag posts there to later reference. I remember you could save posts on Facebook for a small window of time but not anymore.

I don't have a Facebook page or anything else along those lines. Never had. Never saw the need.

I'm 30. While people of all ages are on FB, I think I just missed the necessity, as Zuckerberg is actually a year or two younger than me and Facebook didn't really come about until I was in my later 20s.

I think aspies in their teens or early 20s who grew up with it feel more pressure to belong. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if schools require students to be on FB to receive homework assignments.

But it's kind of like email. I have an email, but check it sporadically. I have a prepaid cellphone which is usually off. I don't have many people to be in contact with, and the few I know, I feel little need to be 24/7 available.

My kids talked me into going on it some years ago.
I lasted about a week.
There are some things parents do not wish to know.