How do you guys feel about social media

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I have a Facebook and am a regular user. It's easier for me to communicate online. I only add my friends and some family. I mostly post statuses about hobbies and interests. The really personal stuff I either keep to myself or share only with my two close friends. I refuse to get a Twitter, but I do have a Tumblr. The only site where info dumping on your special interest gains you followers.

I don't have a facebook or twitter account and to be fair it isn't really my cup of tea to be honest.

I use Facebook, because I find communicating online easier than face-to-face, plus I get updates relating to my interests in my newsfeed. I don't post much though, I mainly read other people's posts. I'm also a member of some of the wrong planet aspie groups on there.

For what it's worth, there are some things even their friends don't wish to know that get posted.

I can't do social networking offline or online.

I've tried being on Facebook, but it just fails to hold my interest. I can enjoy socializing on the Internet, but so-called 'social media' doesn't feel like such to me; I prefer having an extended chat, whether on a forum, in a chatroom, or some other format.

I have neither facebook or twitter

never been interested

I'm finding it extremely valuable, both to maintain some level of connectedness and to be a little more clueful about small-talk topics, what people care about, and so on. The downside, of course, is that it also constantly rubs in how other people are hanging out with friends (or even how the women I dated for about two dates are getting married and starting families).

I have a Facebook account mainly to keep in touch with my friends in Japan/Korea/China. I used to be a more "regular" user of Facebook, but the negativity really got to me. I couldn't handle it. So I deleted most of my friends and now it's a long distance tool for me. I still like "pages" to get interesting facts or pictures in my feed, but honestly I don't like FB and all the attention seeking behaviour.

As a private person, I don't like the idea of Facebook. Reason 1: I don't want people (especially potential employers) to search for me and find random things my "friends" posted or judge me on non-work related issues (politics, religion, etc.). Reason 2: I don't like using my real name or picture on the Internet for security reasons (and because usernames are more fun).

The other reasons I don't like popular social media: no matter how profound the things you say are, they are accompanied by someone else discussing their toilet habits, and anything you say is very quickly forgotten about, anyway, because that's how popular entertainment (including the news) works.

Which is why is still don't have a Facebook, Twitter, etc., much to the shock of my peers.

Sites like Wrongplanet are a type of social media.

The time that many "waste" on facebook, or twitter, I "waste" here on WP. Like its an addiction. If Im gonna do it- I prolly should spend the time on Facebook where the folks I know are, and not with the mostly strangers here.

Have a facebook account, but I find facebook overwhelming. Like Timesquere- everything comes at you. WP is like a forest that you have to do some hunting and gathering.

Maybe ill learn to deal with FB someday.

Facebook is blocked in China. You need to scale the Great Firewall of China to access it. Just in case you are wondering why you might not see posts from your China friends so often.

I think I might have a MySpace page

Seriously have no desire for any of it. I don't understand the point of twitter and Facebook seems like yet another venue for me to feel inadequate and bad that I don't keep up with people the way I "should."

I do have a Pinterest account. Does that count for social media?

Hey I have one too! I use it mainly to pin Harry Potter and Hobbit/Lord of the Rings stuff and dresses I want to buy.

I have a Facebook account, but totally hate it. I like to separate things and stages in my life. I was emotionally tortured in childhood and adolescence by the whole school. I was a bit odd, but I don't want them to know that I have both a mental illness and Asperger. This would give them fuel to keep thinking bad things about me. I also progressed through many stages of mental illness. I am not ashamed, but I want to keep my life private and in the moment looking forward not backwards.

I have only 2 "people" on Facebook marked by friends. One is my ex-boyfriend. He's a nice guy, and cool to talk to (or still snuggle with). The only reason he's my ex is that he is unreliable, meaning he's not always there physically. He also has problems. The other friend is a therapy dog who I consider my sometimes pet. I have a huge list of people who want to friend me even though I don't know who they are, and they are only labeled as "friend of so-and-so." I don't care who their friends with, but I do know I don't know who they are and am not interested in "friending" them. I did look up some kids I went to high school with, but their lives are so unlike mine and I was afraid of telling them the truth so I didn't say anything at all. (I don't have the man, the job, and the kids.) Also, I got an email from one of the bullies, and she explained how she "felt bad" about how she treated me. Hopefully, she does feel bad.

What I'm afraid of is if an future employer asks if I use Facebook. What am I supposed to say? That I don't really use it. That half of my 2 friends is a dog. (No, this is not Nick/Disney Channel. There's a series about a dog who uses the computer on one of those channels. Oh, what you learn from babysitting!) Well, back to employment, I know they will ask this, but what am I supposed to say. Need help!

I have a Facebook but I never use my real name or pictures of me on it. I also have it locked down as tight as possible with everything I can on friends only and only have 5 people on it, 4 of which I know in real life.

I'd rather not even have it but I use it to keep in touch with a real life friend that lives far away. I don't know why we couldn't just use e-mail.

I also used to play Facebook games but I quit after I got my cat and was busy with him because he was so little. Now I'll never go back to those games because for many things in those games you either need to pay real life money or you have to have a bunch of friends that play so you can spam and harass them into helping you or giving you stuff. My friends don't play those games. I also recently tried to check on my Fishville and it was gone. I had 7 deep sea anglers.