does anybody else NOT use social media? (talks, brother, messages)

[Kellyyy]

Originally Posted by simetime

Nope, I don't care to play games with another grown adult, Nope I don't care what you and your cousin did the night before (or ever), Nope I don't want to reconnect with someone that I did not like before, Nope I don't want to be your friend and talk online I have a telephone for that, Nope, I don't want to be bombarded with advertisments from companies that I don't (and never will) patronage anyway And finally Nope because it does not benefit me in the long run since nothing of any real importance is ever conveyed by the people who are the most eager to befriend you.

So true for the bolded part.

[NJBest]

Obviously everyone here uses social media. I must say that it's a little ironic to ask that question here.

[Kellyyy]

Originally Posted by NJBest

Obviously everyone here uses social media. I must say that it's a little ironic to ask that question here.

But we're anoymous. I'm not putting my real self out there though. People don't know who I am.

[Retroit]

I don't consider city-data to be social media. More like opinion-on-random-topics-with-total-strangers media.

I don't engage in social media because I have seen its effects on others, i.e. addiction to iphone.

[Kellyyy]

Originally Posted by Retroit

I don't consider city-data to be social media. More like opinion-on-random-topics-with-total-strangers media.

I don't engage in social media because I have seen its effects on others, i.e. addiction to iphone.

yes thank you

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by Kellyyy

But we're anoymous. I'm not putting my real self out there though. People don't know who I am.

Most social media is anonymous.

[Kellyyy]

Originally Posted by NJBest

Most social media is anonymous.

Not facebook. I know some use their real names on twitter, pinterest, and instagram. Some even post pics of themselves.

[simetime]

Originally Posted by NJBest

Obviously everyone here uses social media. I must say that it's a little ironic to ask that question here.

Actaully, CD is more informationally then social because the intention of the majority of people here is exchanging information/views rather than waste each other's time needless chit chat about their personal lives that most of us can care less

[Royalite]

I'm starting to consider forums social media just because I'm being social on here and I'm also experience the same mental fatigue I get when visiting Fb, etc. In fact, I'm more social on here than I am on fb just because there's questions to answer whereas fb is....people trying to be relevant. Not saying that doesn't happen here, I just learn more here than I do on fb.

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by Kellyyy

Not facebook. I know some use their real names on twitter, pinterest, and instagram. Some even post pics of themselves.

Some use their real names on CD as well. Same with Reddit. Facebook lends itself to be a place where people use their real identities. But most social media sites like CD, Twitter, Reddit, chatroulette, AOL chatrooms, IRC, etc. don't necessarily require or involve real identities.