What's your opinion of social media?

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Anybody see an episode of The IT Crowd where the members of the IT department join a website called "Friendface"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4o2PDw ... z9cDOtoqgt

- that's it, I call facebook disgracebook. It's bad enough I spend so much time on here.

I don't post a lot of things on Facebook but I wonder people who post about their pity lives on social media and have it be public, what is their intention, are they doing it for attention? But I also have to be careful because I don't want it on facebook when I post somewhere else.

My mum had a Twitter account, but she got rid of it. Myself, on the other hand, have never been on anything save this forum.

For the longest time, I never used any kind of social media. Then in 2009/2010 someone 'forcibly' created a Facebook page for me. After a while though, I found it to be the easiest way for me to keep in touch with my friends, much more so than by phone or in person. Another positive I like about Facebook is that I can follow groups or pages for things, people, or topics I like. I do come across things I don't like or comments that irritate me, but I have learned to just scroll past it without letting it bother me too much. I also use a few forum sites, Wrong Planet being one of them.

I also have recently started using Google+, Pinterest, and Twitter as of this summer, but I use them more to promote the items I sell in my business than for social purposes.

If Youtube counts as social media, then I use that, though I haven't uploaded anything to my account in ages.

Used to find Facebook a top priority, but it's just another bs way to be miserable seeing some former classmates living better than me and was only friending me to get in my business. Was only there just to play games. Twitter is more boring. It's just a website to type useless crap under 140 letters, stalk celebs, and read dumb post.

I have a facebook thats about it, barely anyone on their I consider a friend just an acquaintance, mainly people I went to school with. I mostly follow pages that have my interest like a game developer or anime page.

From my view of facebook all I see is vanity, vapidness, materialism, banality, ADHD material, click bait, quotes over pictures trying to be deep when they're just shallow and/or stupid, ghetto memes, people pretending they care about events by changing their avatar or empty gesture post, pepe the frog, christian memes, like this and that crap.

I feel like deleting these people because I keep getting all this crap on my wall. But I keep them around just to stalk their lives. I see from some people so many ghetto stuff like constant post about weed, people making childhood cartoon characters ghetto, their poor grammar and spelling along with cursing. As I read it I feel it affecting my mind as I'm starting to lose my large vocabulary and speak like a hoodrat.

Ironically I'm making a social network app since I figured there is a niche that facebook, twitter, google+ and others don't do or do very well. So keeping these people around is fine as I can use it to hopefully spread word of it when I'm finally done with along with other software I may make in the future. It would be fun to one up everyone in this vanity contest by having them all use something I created,

I gave Facebook a try, about 15 months, ago, just prior to joining WP. I found it to be both, useless and anxiety provoking, so I deleted my account after a few weeks. WP is the only, online source I use, for social interaction. I imagine I'd get overwhelmed, socializing in multiple places on the internet.

I'm on Facebook and I like it, though I don't find it as interesting as WP and other forums. I used to spend a lot of time on it, but now I just check my notifications. There may be some negativity and hate on Facebook, but there's a lot of positive stuff being shared on it too. And it's a good way to keep in touch with people. It's not for everyone, though.

I don't use any other social media site; I don't see the need, for me personally. Instagram and Snapchat annoy me sometimes. From what I've heard, it's just people having fun with their friends and reveling in how popular they are. It makes me envious of them and how they seem to have fun all the time and have no problems in their life. (I'm not saying this is true, but it makes me feel that way.)

WP and few other other forums are what I consider social networking. To me, in order for social media websites to be of any use, you need to be popular in some way. You also need to be 'someone' offline, in order to be 'someone' online - which to me defeats the purpose of virtual communication. If you have real, in-the-flesh friends, why would you wanna talk to them via a computer?

I use it to keep in touch with family and like a handful of friends (3 from an anxiety forum I no longer post on, one from a beard forum I no longer post on, and several I know through the sca; medieval recreation, basically. Oh and two from my class!). I have like 44 people on facebook and it still amazes me that some of them have upwards of 300.

I wish I never fell for it last year.

I can't see the point of facebook at all. I tried it for a month but thought the whole idea was silly. I do use wordpress though, becuase it can oriented around an interest which I think has more purpose that means something to me.