What does everyone think about social media?

[Progster]

It's good for rounding up livestock. The recent incident with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica goes to show just how easy it is.

I tossed the towel a while back, so no more social media for me (unless this site counts, in which case...). I'd rather be anonymous than a piece of data.

Yes, at least on this site you can be sure that your personal data won't be harvested and then sold on.

 

[Judge]

Yes, at least on this site you can be sure that your personal data won't be harvested and then sold on.

Well, in the case of internal profiles that's the difference between a bot and a hacker. And whatever assurances there are by the host not to sell their data to anyone. But I'd be reticent to claim any guarantees.

A bot can crawl over a site's pages without a robots.txt file and harvest limited amounts of data while a hacker might potentially breach the entire database, having access to everything inside the domain.

Would this domain be a priority to hackers? Doubtful. Far more lucrative targets elsewhere. But it still pays to limit or obscure the amount of personal details in as much as you can depending on the nature of the site in question.

 

[onlything]

Social media overall doesn't really speak to me. This forum is my main platform. I do have a facebook since it was easier to contact colleagues about our assignments some years ago but my 'profile' mostly gathers dust.

 

[FreeDiver]

This site and Wrong Planet are my social media sites. I have a facebook account but I seldom use it.

 

[Mr Allen]

anyone on places like Facebook Twitter Instagram etc??

What do you think about these places for people with disabilities??

I have a Facebook and Twitter I have a Facebook since I was little but I have a Twitter recently one when I was little too
Oh I also have a YouTube account. But for some strange reason in my mind I don’t really think of as social media.

I'm on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, although I don't use Instagram that much.

And I post a lot less on FB than I used to, I'm kind of losing interest in it lately.

 

[Juliettaa]

This forum is the full extent of my 'social media'.

I don't know how people find the time to spend all day on Facebook, Twitter etc etc. Perhaps it's easier to find time if people don't have a job, or get out of the house much, but I work full time and after spending the day at work, I'm mentally exhausted and 'all peopled out'.

Humans do my head in so the thought of engaging in inane cr@p like 'wot did you have for tea' fills me with horror!

Plus, I haven't got any internet friends so I'd be Billy no Mates on those sites

 

[tducey]

I have Facebook, Twitter and Instagram plus here and other forums. I find it all enjoyable and think if used right social media is a wonderful thing.

 

[Nitro]

There is one good that Facebook does. I have read in the paper (or heard on the news) several times where the police have caught a stupid criminal because he/she was bragging about their activities on Facebook.

I have a neighbor who got turned down for a job because his prospective employer found him guilty by association for some of his friends on Facebook.

 

[Lemon Zing]

Facebook sucks. Just look at my last two to three threads about it. Besides being blackballed by people I don't even know, it's just a waste of time anyway (so be like people in the 70's and 80's and all the prior decades, who went out to meet others).

 

[Jacoby]

Pure absolute cancer that is destroying western civilization. I've thought it was government data mine/honeypot since the beginning, what better mass surveillance than one people volunteer to? It's got to the point where they can profile you for not participating.

Being just old enough to remember the internet for what it was, I use to have friends and people I talked to every day but not anymore.

 

[Gracey]

FB is useful for missing pet or missing people appeals.

The underdogs in the dog rescues or rehoming associations have a huge platform on which to advertise.
(Not the big charities, the lowly, hardworking ones)
Two positives for FB.

Other than that, this site is about as much ‘society’ as I can handle at the moment.

 

[George Newman]

anyone on places like Facebook Twitter Instagram etc??

What do you think about these places for people with disabilities??

I have a Facebook and Twitter I have a Facebook since I was little but I have a Twitter recently one when I was little too
Oh I also have a YouTube account. But for some strange reason in my mind I don’t really think of as social media.

Hey there, Jenisautistic. These platforms can be good tools for people with disibilities to meet others. I know people who spend a good portion of their social investment inside these platforms. Most use them in addition to face to face family or social time. On the other hand, if something can be messed up it will be. Be guarded to not be influenced by the adds and watch out for bad people. Limit how much information you share. Limit your profile. Don’t load a credit card number permimanately in the platform. As I have gotten older I have opted out of these platforms as they serve no particle purpose to me. To be sure, if you allow them to they can be toxic and factless. I can bet it would be difficult for a 19 year old young person to not be on some or all these platforms given they are so popular. Maybe ask an older person you trust to be available to run things by if something comes up that just doesn’t feel right. I will say that there is another side of me that says stay away altogether but I’m an old man with not much of a clue about today’s society. There is a bunch of feedback here in the forum. Some you may have expected to see and some you probably didn’t expect to see. Thank you for posting. It’s a great question. I appreciate you asking. I wish the best for you.

 

[clg114]

I have a neighbor who got turned down for a job because his prospective employer found him guilty by association for some of his friends on Facebook.

That is so wrong in so many ways that I am speechless. Your neighbor was probably better off not working for that individual.

 

[Gracey]

I don't know how people find the time to spend all day on Facebook, Twitter etc etc.
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They can read their phones whilst walking along a pavement, crossing a road, placing an order at a shop counter, driving, socialising(?) in a pub, on the clock at work.

Plenty of opportunity to catch up with news feeds.

Folk will evolve and grow a third eye in the centre of their forehead, just so they can keep an eye on where they’re going whilst reading their phone at the same time.

 

[pjcnet]

I've just never got into Facebook and I hate Twitter with the awful 160 character limit, it's a site that should never have taken off because it's absolutely totally and utterly crap lol. I got into using specific IRC chat rooms for a while, but only because I had to when I was a SYSOP for a busy site where the "staff" had to use the IRC as our main way of communicating with each-other and because I sometimes spoke to people on other similar sites where we kept good relations. I also sometimes needed to "man" an IRC #help channel and I started getting into chatting with members in the main members room that I also moderated while I was there as well as playing a silly IRC game that I actually got addicted to lol. I usually prefer delayed messages however where there's no pressure and I can take my time like here in a forum, but I still found that I could communicate with people a lot better even typing live on a chat room or when using a live messaging service than face to face in person or over the phone where many people would soon realise I was different.

Me too. I read somewhere that there is a huge amount of people depend on Facebook for their news. I find that very alarming, because at least half of what is on Facebook is not true.

A lot of the mainstream news isn't true either, or it's certainly a twisted "truth", often to what the state wants you to believe.

 

[Gracey]

We had a teenage newbie start at work once who thought any spare time in between customers was for getting his phone out and reading social media.
Bless him

 

[Nitro]

We had a teenage newbie start at work once who thought any spare time in between customers was for getting his phone out and reading social media.
Bless him

I used to like work with a kid that like,liked everything like he like saw and like said like like so many like times,like you like lost track of like what he was like saying like each like time...

 

[Nitro]

That is so wrong in so many ways that I am speechless. Your neighbor was probably better off not working for that individual.

He's a medical first responder,and the organization was a hospital.

 

[Lemon Zing]

Quite a number of years ago, I also used to post on Wrong Planet. They couldn't be bothered with all my posts whining about my support workers. Then one time I mentioned that my old neighbour got sent down for causing a stir. He's not a bad guy. He just gets fed up of being single and can become rather agitated by it. However, he endangered lives. I'm not going to go into a long story, but he got a jail term for throwing stuff onto the street from his top floor flat and the building we resided in has a bar downstairs where people can sit out the back and smoke, so yeah, he may have killed someone. They thought I was making excuses for him because he has ASD. So what if he has ASD? It's not that he's a bad guy that knowingly wants to hurt someone. He just went off the rails due to his stress. So I wasn't making excuses for how he behaved at all. I'm sure guys have done worse things and got off lightly. They implied that I was covering up for him, and one person said that was insulting because it suggests ASD personnel need not be punished for having ASD, when that was them putting words into my mouth. By that point, they had just branded me as a stalker because I made the same type of threads about my issues, when the rest of the topics got closed when people began to lose pity and turn against me. They had some sympathy at first. Sympathy from armchair psychologists eventually dries up on the Internet, though.

Video game forums are all but dead now. In 2003, there was no Facebook or Bebo, so using forums was the norm. I'm not sure when Myspace came about, but I never really used that. Although I did register on a lot of forums. If I joined a forum and I found it was dead or full of trolls, I'd go find another one with better users, even if it took me a while. Then just about all the forums gradually got so inactive, to the point where posting on them got to be kind of pointless. In recent years, I've had a hard time posting on forums and really getting a good sense of community out of most of them. People move on, after all. I'm still a member of several such survival horror gaming forums, but I feel like I'm talking to myself most of the time, because only a few people besides myself even still post on them, but I'm not usually replied to that often. Even when we do post, we usually just go on and on about how we miss the way the games were made 15 years ago, and when there's no news in months, we get so bored. Well, the message boards about Resident Evil may as well be dead anyway. Capcom have butchered that series with all their fake promises and other cash-grab drivel since around 2006. People on the forums used to have a neutral attitude about what other fans thought of the franchise, but I found that after so long, it was just fanboys always being fanboys by defending whatever bad decision Capcom made.

Games change. The staff within Konami don't even care about making console games anymore. After that Kojima guy left the company, they distanced themselves from all their top franchises and even referred to mobile gaming as the "future" of gaming. As laughable as that sounds, I realized recently that soon Resident Evil may meet a similar fate to Silent Hill. In general, though, social media is an eyesore. Then again, all good things must come to an end, but it's a shame that there's no way we will see a better conclusion. But I suppose fans would still moan that they miss the series even if that had happened. You can never have too much of a good thing, or can you?

 

[kay]

I did enjoy Facebook for posting pictures of Brussel's sprouts and miss that, but otherwise I just wish I had stayed away. Beenoff of it for two years now maybe and have even less interest in Facebook than the day I quit. I do like to tell some people what I am up to, but not in a place where a bunch of people I barely know are going to attack me for eating Velveeta or scream at me for liking a video of a dancing ham(just made up examples, but close enough).

Never tried Instagram or the Tweety Bird thing. I have an ignored Tumblir account, never really used it at all because it was confusing and I might have a Youtube account somewhere but I don't remember.

Pinterest, though, oh how I do enjoy that! Of course I don't socialize there, I just save pictures of egg rolls.

This forum is pretty much it for online socializing, although I do occasionally comment on a blog here and there very rarely but never in a social way. It's never led to conversation or attack. I'm careful where I comment now. Mostly I dislike social media, it's too crowded and mob-ish.