Which Social Media Platforms Do You Use?

[Bohandas]

Obviously, you use internet message forums like ENWorld, otherwise you wouldn't be here. But what other platforms do you use?

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.)

That's basically all of the internet, including things that definitely aren't social media like ebay and craigslist

 

[Gradine]

Yeah I made the switch from the hellsite (Twitter) to Bluesky a while back and have zero regrets.

 

[Thomas Shey]

The only one I sometimes wish I'd dump is FB, but there are functional reasons to keep it. I personally find YT a useful and entertaining element of my day (I understand some people fight like hell to avoid getting recommendations they don't want, but for whatever reason that's never been an issue for me).

 

[Bohandas]

The only one I sometimes wish I'd dump is FB, but there are functional reasons to keep it. I personally find YT a useful and entertaining element of my day (I understand some people fight like hell to avoid getting recommendations they don't want, but for whatever reason that's never been an issue for me).

I never even look at recommendations. I only ever either search or check my favorite youtubers' pages

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I still have to use Twitch to log into my actual DND Beyond account, and I'm not delighted with that

 

[Thomas Shey]

I never even look at recommendations. I only ever either search or check my favorite youtubers' pages

I'd have missed some pretty interesting videos, including some musicians I've really come to avoid if I did that, but I do admittedly tend to ignore the things farther down the recommendations.

 

[The Attic]

Interesting results so far

It seems more people use Pinterest than Bluesky and three times more people use Twitter/X than Bluesky as well.

[Edit]
I know realise this poll was started in March 2022, so three and a half years on the results might be different.

 

[Meech17]

I use too many social media apps.

-Probably Not Going Anywhere-
-YouTube: This is my preferred method of consuming content. I watch a handful of shows on traditional streaming platforms each year, but that number gets smaller and smaller. I watch a lot of content based around D&D, MTG, Tech, Cars, Food, Politics, Lifestyle, and other stuff through YouTube. I find I go through phases, and the YouTube Algorithm isn't the worst, and it usually pivots pretty quickly, and follows what I'm interested in. Plus YouTube Music is the platform I use for music and podcasts, and getting it all for one subscription is nice.

-Discord: Discord is the new internet forum it seems. I have a server with my video gaming buddies(Which sadly seems to be dying, as we're all now in our 30s with houses, kids, jobs, responsibilities..) There's a server for my Magic Group, and every LGS tends to have a server where they post about events and what not.

-Would like to get rid of, but probably won't-

-Snapchat: My circle of close friends have a mix of android and Iphones, so the group messaging situation is rough. Snapchat probably isn't the best alternative, but it's what we use and it's just one of those things where it's not worth the discomfort to switch to something else. If we ever did, I'd probably delete this one immediately because that's all it's used for.

-Facebook: I don't really use it. My timeline is full of people wishing me happy birthday, and then you scroll a little further and it's mostly the same people wishing me happy birthday last year, and so on. I do like to scroll it occasionally because I made the jump to move out of my homestate, so it's nice to see pictures of friends, families, their kids, and the like.

-I do use, but probably should quit-

-Reddit: I've been on Reddit for a long time. 10+ years at this point. I've seen the site change over that time and it's lost nearly all of it's charm. It's been encrappified for sure. It's still a decent resource to use to see new Magic the Gather content, and there's a couple of small communities I'm still interested in, but even those aren't really enough to keep my interest.

-Twitter/X: This is the one I should really ditch. It's terrible for my mental health. I'm more invested in American politics than I should be, and this is where most of the discourse occurs, it seems. It's bad. There's a large MtG community on there as well, and I would miss that.

-Have an account, but don't really use-

-Instagram: Used to be a good place for the online YoYo community, but I've fallen out of it in the last few years. I've got some friends and family on there but I could probably ditch this platform and not miss it. One note about Instagram and Facebook. It seems like a lot of small businesses use these platforms instead of investing in real websites.. And while it's annoying, I don't see that changing any time soon.

-BlueSky: I made an account over here when it came out, and never really got into it. It ended up being kind of like Bizzaro-Twitter. Some of the MtG community made it over there, but not a critical mass, and it just makes it not worth browsing.

-Truth Social: This one was purely just to fact-check Twitter. I won't go too deep into it, because politics aren't permitted here, but the President of the US says some wild stuff on there, and you can't just blindly trust the screenshots that end up on Twitter. So it only gets used when I see something and say "Holy cow.. He didn't really say that did he? Oh.. Yep. Guess he did."

 

[Velderan]

YouTube Algorithm isn't the worst, and it usually pivots pretty quickly, and follows what I'm interested in.

It's actually quite good in my experience, but it takes some discipline and effort to make it work for you. That clickbait "you won't believe what WotC did this time?!" video will spawn dozens of other videos just like it in your feed so don't click them. If the algorithm gets it wrong and something pops up in your feed you don't like, click the don't suggest this channel or not interested button. I'm pretty good about doing these things and a quick check now showed that all 10 of the first 10 suggested videos are things I would watch.

The only problem is sometimes I'm trying to research how to fix something and I watch 2 or 3 videos about the topic and the algorithm decides "man, this guy loves snow blower content. here's some more videos about snow blower repair!" and it takes a bit to clean that up again.

 

[Meech17]

It's actually quite good in my experience, but it takes some discipline and effort to make it work for you. That clickbait "you won't believe what WotC did this time?!" video will spawn dozens of other videos just like it in your feed so don't click them. If the algorithm gets it wrong and something pops up in your feed you don't like, click the don't suggest this channel or not interested button. I'm pretty good about doing these things and a quick check now showed that all 10 of the first 10 suggested videos are things I would watch.

The only problem is sometimes I'm trying to research how to fix something and I watch 2 or 3 videos about the topic and the algorithm decides "man, this guy loves snow blower content. here's some more videos about snow blower repair!" and it takes a bit to clean that up again.

You can also go into your watch history and remove individual videos. That helps if you find you're on the wrong track