Which Social Media Platforms Do You Use?

[The Soloist]

I think youtube can be social media for influencers and folks they trade comments with. Though I would imagine most folks simply use YT to watch videos without any interaction. Certainly, they dont use it like they do reddit, instagrham, facebook.

If someone other than the owner of the channel answers one of my comments about their YT video, I don't respond. I'm note on YT for that.

 

[Ryujin]

I think youtube can be social media for influencers and folks they trade comments with. Though I would imagine most folks simply use YT to watch videos without any interaction. Certainly, they dont use it like they do reddit, instagrham, facebook.

As people I know who do Youtube videos say, "Never read the comments."

 

[The Soloist]

As people I know who do Youtube videos say, "Never read the comments."

True. But some spend the first 1hour when they post the video. They can always delete aggressive comments. I know a solo lady YouTuber who does that. Good for her.

 

[Ryujin]

True. But some spend the first 1hour when they post the video. They can always delete aggressive comments. I know a solo lady YouTuber who does that. Good for her.

The second rule, especially for female posters is, "Never read the PMs." You wouldn't believe some of the crap my friends have been sent.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I feel like there's a difference between consuming media (YouTube) and using a social network. Watching YouTube is more like reading websites than it's like posting on Facebook. YouTube is just part of the web now.

It can be like that with big creators, but with smaller ones there's often some interaction going on (and not always super small; I've had some exchanges with the singer Karliene expressing empathy for depression that she responded to). That's the gig with YT; there's quite range of how big and how interactive channel creators are.

 

[Morrus]

It can be like that with big creators, but with smaller ones there's often some interaction going on (and not always super small; I've had some exchanges with the singer Karliene expressing empathy for depression that she responded to). That's the gig with YT; there's quite range of how big and how interactive channel creators are.

Well, yes, but that's like responding in the comments to an article on a news site or blog (indeed, it used to be called 'vlogging'). Sure, it's all technically social media, I guess, in the sense that people post comments, but you use it in a very different way to Facebook or Twitter.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Well, yes, but that's like responding in the comments to an article on a news site or blog (indeed, it used to be called 'vlogging'). Sure, it's all technically social media, I guess, in the sense that people post comments, but you use it in a very different way to Facebook or Twitter.

I don't disagree, I'm just noting that the degree of interacting with the channel-poster and the viewers can vary considerably. If there's a really big difference its that one person controls the flow of discussion; people "own" their channels in a sense, so they can impact the kinds of discussion going on if they're able and willing to do the work, in a way that only the moderators do on, say, Reddit.

But its not a purely one-way thing the way most media is.