Am I the only one who dislikes social networks.

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I like Tumblr for my fandoms but I am getting so tired of FB and Twitter. My parents make me have them so I can be friendly and keep in touch/meet people. They think it will help me socialize. Instead, all I go on there for is to change my background and default photo excessively and play Bitstrips. My mother is actually so obsessed with that stupid game and puts me in weird cartoons with relatives on my account and annoys me when I'm busy to get me to play it! ugh...

NO YOU ARE NOT!! !! !! I am a 55 year old mom with Aspergers with a husband and 19 year old son with Aspergers and we LOATHE Facebook and social media like FB and Twitter. It isca place where everyone talks AT each other and noone talks TO each other. I felt ignored there. I wanted real relationships. So 1 year ago my son and I conducted an experiment. We decided to leave our contact info and say goodbye. We told everyone we would leave our info up for two weeks then leave. We said, "We'd love to stay in touch. Let's E mail instead so we can be personal friends." At the end of 2 weeks NOT ONE PERSON HAS GOTTEN IN TOUCH IN THE PAST YEAR!! !

We do NOT miss it AT ALL! It was like this phoney world making us believe we had friends when we did not. It was good to get rid of that dead weight because people we loved and cared for would post the most gosh awful nasty things and it gave us a lot of stress. You know-too much information. It seemed like everyone was trying to impress each other with shock value stuff. I'm talking about adults and teens alike - adults who were supposed to be responsible mentors to young people.

I don't think social media like that brings out the best in prople. We blocked as much as we could, but the truth was that people really weren't our friends who wanted to know us personally. It was sad but now we're just glad to have the truth and not carry everyone else's nasty junk around in our heads. Did I happen to mention that we LOATHE Facebook???

I definitely feel the same way. I love Tumblr because lots of people there talk about things I like, not about meaningless social interactions I am not a part of. I hate Facebook heartily and only use it to check messages.

I hate Facebook and I've never had a twitter, tumblr (what is that?) or any other ones (I can't name them since I don't use them). Maybe one is called Instagram??? I don't know. All I know is that I don't use social networking sites, all I use is this forum for talking. Otherwise I go online to do research or do my shopping.

I've never had any of those things.

I guess I can't say I "hate" them per se, I can definitely see the utility for some people, but it's an entire social realm with specific rules that I don't understand or care about in the least.

No thank you sir.

Cheer up. You are not alone. I avoid social networks like the plague! What is their purpose? I mean, if I avoid people in real life, then why would I want to socialize online? I don't totally avoid social intercourse, but I am only interested in it IF the others share some common interests with me, for example WP. Besides, I have better things to do than to waste my time on meaningless social networks.

I had a Facebook page, I closed it for 3 years then gave it another go. I decided to close it again and this time it might be for good. I was noticing that I don't see any teens hanging out ANYWHERE and wondered how they could be so well behaved until I clued in that nearly everyone is wasting their life away on Facebook. What people see in these phony interactions I will never know.

I don't think I'm capable of expressing my severe loathing of social networking in less than 11 pages.

I plan on doing a full investigative blog post on it one day though. I highly recommend people read Against the Machine by Lee Siegel if you want to know the gist of what I'm wishing I could write in just 500 words.

I'm still on Facebook because of my photography and keeping in contact with my family and it seems a good way to know what your friends are up to, but at times I just get angered by it. I never understood why I didn't like these memes that just explain the person's feelings rather than facts, idiotic images of animals and equally as idiotic captions accompanying them and any thought a person has expressed as a meme. If you have a problem verbalizing your thoughts, then fine, I understand, but if you don't lack skills in this area then write me a few paragraphs of what you're feeling. I basically taught myself to think verbally to help me detailed descriptions for my novel. My high visual thinking ability was handicapping my ability to express myself verbally.

Then it suddenly hit me...but this is just like socialising. When we socialise with people we aren't too serious and laugh at really stupid things. Hell, all people seem to do around me is comment about food and talk about their pets. This really helps me understand why I hate many themes happening on social networking sites.

The nastiness to me is people are no longer having to put up a persona like they do in society and they don't know how to handle this freedom so they end up abusing it and because they don't have to talk to the person in the face they think they can get away with saying anything and boo to that person's feelings. It's just the internet after all. I'm actually finding myself putting on more of a mask online and being too honest in society. I have to put on a mask online because people have turned into verbally and emotionally abusive trolls and I have to give the impression like it doesn't affect me. I can't fake it in society to save myself because there's too many sensations, emotions and racing thoughts that go with it to even slow everything down so I can act in the same way I do online.

I like reading articles posted by sites I like though, like The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Phys.org, and Life's Little Mysteries and the rare chance my friends post a thought provoking article.

I guess I'm lucky that I wasn't able to create enough connections to have those problems.
That interesting description by "pensieve" just gave me the idea to visualize things I've seen on social media floating around inside a person's head as thoughts. I have to try to maintain awareness that people really do get fixated on random things that seem to only have meaning inside their own minds. Next I will have to research exactly which part of the brain creates these errant imaginings, and discover why such thoughts don't occur in my own mind. I think it has something to do with the connections between areas of the brain that function "properly" in "normal" brains that aren't very active in my brain, or may be inactive altogether. Once I've done that, I'll be able to create a subconscious mental process that simulates this brain activity, then I will be able to anticipate more of the thoughts of everyone around me. Because I can.

No. I find Facebook highly toxic, stressful and a pure waste of time. I cannot stand it. There is absolutely no decency there.
However, Google+ is fine, you can really share about your interests without being invaded by others needs to exhibit their own life.

You're definitely not alone and I think it's fine you think like this. A lot of people aren't too fond on social networks and a lot of the time they can be hard to navigate (I don't use my google or Yahoo account as it is too confusing for example).

I am obsessed with facebook but not for the social aspect but for following celebrities and other interests in general. Social media is social media but it doesn't always have to be social. Anyway, best regards.

It's a good way to keep tab of friends. I'd lose contact with everyone I once had known otherwise.

It's not like you have to be an active user to enjoy it.

Never had a tumblr or twitter.

Deleted my facebook account a year ago.

Never felt better.

I really like looking at cool blogs people set up on Tumblr, however I signed up on it and really have no idea what to put up. :/ But I'll browse through and really enjoy it. I haven't been on Facebook in a long long long time and have just recently considered getting back on it. I definately got very ticked when Facebook....um, upgraded? Changed? Like your home page and profile page changed. I hate that and the fact it's not private at all. I think what I hate the most about social networks are the internet trolls and cyber bullies. Holy crap, let me tell you I will never have a channel on Youtube or MySpace. I just, have NO tolerance for that amount of BS from people. I don't have a twitter. I'm not really sure what you do on Twitter, do you just type stuff and share photos? It sounds like Instagram.
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