Which Social Media Platforms Do You Use?

[el-remmen]

I still have Facebook but (aside from Messenger), I don't really visit it/use it and have removed it from my phone. I find that if I keep social media access as limited to my laptop as possible, I am much less likely to use it (instagram being the exception) because I do find it toxic and too easy to dwell on the stupid ish people say on there.

I technically still have a Twitter acct, but have not used it in quite a while, and even before that I barely used it for some time (as compared to the 2010s, when I found it indispensable). I have removed the app from my phone and the bookmark from my laptop browser.

The reason I have not quit Facebook is because there are still people on there that I am not ever gonna keep in regular contact with but that I still would like an occasional update from and know if they are well (or not).

I still regret deleting My Space because I did it unthinkingly and I lost access to a video my nephew posted from Iraq in 2007 a few months before he was killed, and it was the only video footage I had of him. I have lost other people who still have pages on FB and I would need to get it together to save what I want from them, but it can be hard - and would never be as convenient to browse when the feeling hits me.

As for Instagram, I find it to be the best community for D&D crafters and I like to share pictures - but I may end up quitting it eventually because I have reel scrolling problem.

 

[Velderan]

If being chill was a requirement, every single option on the list would be disqualified!

Joking aside, the reason I'm removing myself from social media as a whole is how not chill it has become over the years. I know everyone's social media feed is different, but all of mine were incredibly polluted by ads, offensive comments, clickbait, AI-generated nonsense, chatbots, political rants, and bigotry...and it gets worse by the day. It was bad for my blood pressure. If I were to describe my social media feed in a single word, that word would not be "chill."

That's 100% why I have a reddit account and use it to get info on things I'm interested in, but rarely actually read any of the discussion beyond the initial post because it usually is just people generally being toxic. Some subreddits are worse than others, but so much of it is just bots and trolls these days.

 

[payn]

That's 100% why I have a reddit account and use it to get info on things I'm interested in, but rarely actually read any of the discussion beyond the initial post because it usually is just people generally being toxic. Some subreddits are worse than others, but so much of it is just bots and trolls these days.

Yeap, reddit for me is all about getting an answer and not about sticking around for a discussion.

 

[TheAlkaizer]

I'm removing myself from social media as a whole is how not chill it has become over the years

Oh no, I fully agree. My removal is both due to that, and the realization that it added very little to my life. I'm in the process of doing the same realization with my cellphone.

What I meant is that sometimes I found myself scrolling on YouTube shorts. It's not the best use of my time, but it was desirable. Like I wanted to do nothing for twenty minutes. I have never opened LinkedIn for that. There's nothing there.

 

[schneeland]

Since the thread came up again, I looked up my old post.

However, if we talk about active use, then it's really only Discord, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. And I don't really treat the latter two as part of the social space and more as content delivery networks.

Twitter and Instagram are gone from this list, but I'm more active on Reddit. However, I don't really think of it as social media, and I also post very little. And not dissimilar, I use Facebook more often, but mostly for memes and hobby news.

 

[Tonguez]

I still use facebook but limit it to family and a few close friends and a couple of well moderated groups of interest. So I get very little that is toxic, its easy to train the algorithm by liking what you want and actively hiding stuff that you dont.

I havent even heard of most of the options listed and havent used much beyond Youtube and LinkedIn.

and does google count? most of my access to reddit posts is via google searches (and most of those DnD related)

I also thought Twitch and Twitter were the same thing, but apparently not

 

[Cadence]

Updated to remove a few and add one.

 

[Bohandas]

I'm lretty sure that Facebook is named for, and inspired by, the Necronomicon

 

[CleverNickName]

and does google count? most of my access to reddit posts is via google searches (and most of those DnD related)

The original post was a few years ago, so here's a refresher...

For the purpose of this poll, a "social media platform" is:

• an interactive, internet-based application, with
• user-generated content (text, photos, videos) that are generated through all interactions, and
• have a user-created, service-specific user profile. (You have to create an account and log in.)

And you are considered to "use a platform" if you have created an account for it, and that account is still active (meaning that you can log back in if you wanted.)

So I think that Google+ is was definitely a social media platform, but Google (the search engine) isn't.

Speaking of which....is G+ still around? I just asked Google what their social media platform was, and it said "Google's primary social media platform is YouTube," so probably not.

 

[schneeland]

Speaking of which....is G+ still around? I just asked Google what their social media platform was, and it said "Google's primary social media platform is YouTube," so probably not.

No, very dead indeed (at least for the common people) since April 2019 - Frequently asked questions about the Google+ shutdown.