Which Social Media Platforms Do You Use?

[Bohandas]

I do not consider forums to be social media. It is a different animal than places like X, TikTok, FB, etc.

Social media tends to be focused on potentially narcissistic ‘look at me’ activity rather than actual interaction.

Boards like ENWorld tend to be actual discussion and interaction.

This. Until a couple years ago "social media" always referred specifically to sites like Belen describes here (with the added detail of the abusive algorithms mentioned elsewhere). It's only comparatively recently that I've started to encounter people using it in the very broad and literal sense laid out in this thread

 

[Tonguez]

This. Until a couple years ago "social media" always referred specifically to sites like Belen describes here (with the added detail of the abusive algorithms mentioned elsewhere). It's only comparatively recently that I've started to encounter people using it in the very broad and literal sense laid out in this thread

I suppose if you want to get specific Social Media exist across a broad spectrum of platforms depending on who generates content and degree of free 'social' interaction
Topic-Curation Platforms - Pin interest, Tumblr - Topic focussed, minimal social interaction
Creator-Broadcasts - Youtube, Tiktok, Blogs - Creator & Audience interaction
Network Media - Facebook, LinkedIn - Identity-based group interactions/feedback loops
Community Media - Discussion Forums (Enworld), Reddit(?) - Topic based, community generated
Limited Chat Platforms - Discord, Messenger - small group, real time interaction

 

[GrimCo]

Recently reactivated LinkedIn. And boy, was it bad. Amount of self ego stroking, "motivational" posts, circle jerks and all around cringe is worse than it was couple of years ago (and even then it was pretty bad). Once, long time ago, it was decent place to connect with other professionals from same or adjacent field/industry, build network, share info on projects, companies, interesting articles etc. I'm on the fence either to deactivate it again or remove whole bunch of people, specially those in marketing and sales.