Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
1. I enjoy writing.
2. I don't have any friends (retired to a new place)
3. It gives me something to do
4. I enjoy interacting with people, even if I don't actually know them
5. It keeps me informed, not only about current events and issues, but I pick up a lot of information about other stuff, too (especially in the Retirement forum)
That being said, I post more on the P&OC forum than anywhere else, so it is not just "personal stuff" -- although I admit that I post a lot of personal opinions!
Btw, C-D is the ONLY social media I use. I am not even on Facebook and don't have an account, for example.
Similar. I do post on FB, but mostly photos I take during my daily walk.
I also like to write, and I am stuck in a place that is not my home where I have no family or friends, and I am a caregiver for my seriously ill partner. I don't have many choices of things to do or the chance to go very far.
Wow...yeah, I don't like that it is this way. While waiting for a table at a restaurant, others are all looking down at their phones, instead of conversing. It is what everyone has been conditioned to do. I don't care for texting, and do not do so with many, and not using apps, so my phone stays off most of the time unless I need it when out. Another tells me, "I know those older than you who use their phones always". So, what? Part of this has developed due to pressure to fit in with the crowd, whether one likes doing so or not.
.
My husband and I go to a cafe everyday and spend time reading the news (on our phones) and then chat about it a bit, then he reads his kindle and I read my book. One day we were group texting with our grandson and daughter in another state when a woman in her 40’s came up to us and said “ wow you’re like a couple of teenagers with your noses stuck in your phones and not talking to each other”. Bloody cheeky moo.
I agree. It’s so commonplace now that 35 year old women with children are doing it and their parents and family are commenting things like “you go girl” or “you’re such a strong woman”. Eek.
Anectodal evidence, but I know that at least in certain cases, these are meant to be an "FU" to a former partner who is hopefully lurking; like look how hot I am, see what you're missing, living my best life without you, etc., etc.
I am stuck in a place that is not my home where I have no family or friends, and I am a caregiver for my seriously ill partner. I don't have many choices of things to do or the chance to go very far.
City-Data is my connection to the outside world.
You must have been a pretty frequent visitor to C-D even before this situation, though; you were already a moderator?
You must have been a pretty frequent visitor to C-D even before this situation, though; you were already a moderator?
Oh yeah, I have been here since 2009 when I found it while looking for my condo. I was in the relationship before I became a mod in 2018, and I always posted on a daily basis, but less than now. I was working, for one thing, plus before I was freer to do other stuff. I used to have a social life! Like with real live people, where we played cards and games and went to free live concerts by the beach in summer...my mother was still alive, so I took her out and we played Scrabble afterward. Life has changed drastically, but City-Data has remained a constant.
Anectodal evidence, but I know that at least in certain cases, these are meant to be an "FU" to a former partner who is hopefully lurking; like look how hot I am, see what you're missing, living my best life without you, etc., etc.
Yeah, and how silly is that? This is how things have become, since people can and are shown examples of, they will.
Love having discussions with people on different topics, understand human behavior, see how people feel on certain things via polls, and for more personal posts, sometimes I need a sounding board to gain some perspective which works sometimes and sometimes doesn't work, but it gets me thinking about things in my life that I am experiencing.
Regardless of topic, the point is to have discussions.
Social media daily posting feels different from that in how people use it compared to this site. Forums like CD and Reddit are meant to usually discuss things and are anonymous for the most part. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, are usually used more for attention, not always, but a lot of times it is and rarely anonymous, quite the opposite usually.
So to answer the question I love having discussions like these (just like we are having now). I am a curious cat. Does that make sense?
If you didn't know city data forums is social media you're doing it too so probably the same reasons.
....why? And I am talking about people who don't do it for their business/work, but all personal stuff.
Is it because they are lonely? Need validation? Attention? Insecure? Narcissists?
Hmmm. Let's look at this closely. ...
Let's start here.
What was your motivation for posting this post?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Part of this has developed due to pressure to fit in with the crowd, whether one likes doing so or not. 
This is how things have become, since people can and are shown examples of, they will.
