What do you think of social media?

The only social media I belong to is Linkedin. I joined ages ago and never did anything with my account. Then my current supervisor nagged me into using it more. I've made a ton of connections, especially within our agency, because the head of HR is really into Linkedin. I've also reconnected with some folks I haven't seen in years, but I still don't use it very much. Like others have said, if I really want to communicate with someone I'll use the phone or e-mail.

I intentionally don't belong to any other social media. I am a very private person. I don't want people tracking me down on-line through social media. Also, as others mentioned, the drama involved in places like FB is more than I want to deal with.

Update on what I'd written. I did some revamping on it. I took a close look at who I'm really involved with, in my everyday life or which family members matter in a long distance sense. I went and cleaned up any fan pages that I may have clicked like on, which clogs up their [fb] logarithms. I then set up an inner circle list, for things I just want to share, replied to or not. And if I want to present anything that's open on my page, I can. I've filtered through people whose pages I do or don't want to follow. Adjusted notifications, etc. Was time consuming, but now my feed when I log in, is much more conducive to who I actually interact with. And my father has no clue that my son fared well on state testing.

I see how damaging social media has been with my daughter.It seems to allow undesirables into her personal space.The most difficult thing is she like every other teenager wants to be part of it.Oh well,she is getting emotionally stronger and unfortunately it is a part of growing up today.

It’s difficult for me to find the words to describe how much I hate companies like Facebook and Twitter. I even hate the words social media. It wasn’t that long ago when people were calling it social networking. And within the last 5 years it morphed into this horrible thing that we call social media. People are using the word media to describe the services as if the majority of the information is actually news worthy. I think Facebook and Twitter is basically a data mining service that is mostly composed of useless mundane information. I hate the fact that I can’t go to a website or walk down most streets without seeing an F or bird sign.

Most of my friends and acquaintances think I’m weird because I don’t use social media services. The only people in my social circles that are not on social media are computer savvy people over the age of 40 that are worried about a lack of privacy, data mining, and the hardware / software vulnerabilities on most smartphones. I used to have a Myspace account before it became obsolete because of Facebook. I visited the Twitter website a couple of times, but I’m not a member, and I don’t think I will be making any tweets in the future. I even hate the lingo that’s derived from the service. You’ll never hear me say the words hash tag in a conversation unless I’m talking about how much I hate the words. # will always be number or pound in my mind. I opened a Facebook account in 2008 so I could play a video game. I logged on 4 years later in 2012, and I haven’t visited the site since 2014.

I suppose that I hate social media for the same reasons that I hate most reality television shows. Most people just aren’t that interesting, and I’m also an introvert and bit of a misanthrope. I probably sound like a senior citizen complaining about how much he or she hates the current state of things, but I’m only in my early 30s, and I’ve been this way since my late teens. I hate the way most of our entertainment and technological services have evolved since the beginning of this century. The only kind of social networking service that I would be interested in using something (with a good privacy policy) that would be like a combination of Match.com / POF.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Meetup.com. It would have to be a service that uses comprehensive psych profiles and better algorithms to create ideal matches for business relationships, friendships, sexual relationships, and recreational activities.

And now, according to three newsworthy sources, fb will have the 'lovely' dislike button. Hooray for more harassment tools. I really wish for a better way to be grouped with long distance relatives and distance friends that are out of state or who's busy family/work lives create distance together, without the unnecessary hoopla.
I wish there was better privacy to who sees such conversations and likes.
I still keep to my no men unless related or quasi related in an extended family type of way.

Just blocked a former teammate, as I pondered her Monday morning post for its content, then filtered her friends list, blocked two from her list that aren't even on mine for reasons going far back to our past. Along with one who flipped Sunday for some shared news story...

I 'know' who's on my list and that's what matters..to me.

Trying to figure out why beyond a block, can't unhindge twitter followers...

That it is stupid, and way too frequently, harmful.

I do not participate.

But Psychcentral is a social media website, is it not?
I'm not being cheeky, by the by.

I have never really used FB or Twitter myself and don't intend to.Way to much crap for my trying to keep things simple way of thinking.

I think it's all pretty stupid, though I did let peer pressure me to start a Facebook page I haven't ever made a post on it..

Hey Mike
I like your paragraph about fear.My fear and faith are having a tug of war right now.

All I have is Facebook right now. I used to have an instagram and twitter. But all of it is sooo boring. Seriously, I'm never on FB anymore. I really don't care to look at people's boring posts about their boring lives. This forum is WAY more interesting. I can actually talk about real stuff, nothing superficial and BORING.

I agree.Lots of positive information for healing the mind and soul on this sight.I enjoy it very much so!