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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6702520" data-attributes="member: 8835">One thing I favor forums over social media for is segregation of interests.This may sound like opinion (probably is), but it is based on the functional differences of social media vs. forums.I don't LIKE or join pages or groups because it exposes my name to people outside of my actual friend's list on FaceBook.I don't want all my friendslist to know I like Underwater Basket Weaving or ENWorld or to see what I post about on those sites.  Stupid ideas I explore here are not meant to be seen outside of here.  So doing that stuff in Facebook is bad.I don't use my real name on FB.  All my friends in FB are people I really know, so they know it is me.  But it also means that my real name cannot be googled and led directly to some dumb pic/post of me by a potential employer ( I work in tech, it happens).I'm also active on NextDoor.com, which is like social media in interface, but locked down to just my neighborhood.  Which means it acts like a forum for my purposes of segregation of interests.  What happens on the site, stays in the site.  Trying to do neighborhood relations on an FB group would cause bleed-over of what those members want to keep private.  FB's wiggly privacy settings and promiscuous defaults means that the average person shares more than they mean to.Another functional difference between social media and forums, is that forums are wordier.  I like to read.  I would prefer to read a post or news article than watch a youtube video.  Social media is all about short text or pics, not actual words or lengthy explanation of ideas.  It's the MTV short attention span of the internet.</blockquote>

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