Anyone else out there who doesn’t use social media at all?
Never had a facebook account, deleted my twitter account a few years ago (never really used it). I still have a Insta account, but not looked at it in ages, and then only for seeing family photos/messages, and they have all stopped posting as well. So that is up for deletion soon.
That’s it for mainstream socials. My wife has even suspended her facebook account and she was a big reader of it, she can’t quite bring herself to delete it yet!
We use whatsapp for small closed family groups etc.
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+1 for “no” social media
Only use whatsapp for small closed family groups etc.
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Only use Facebook and Instagram mainly for keeping track of family.
Stuart
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Not wishing to scare anyone away, but this forum is a kind of social media. It’s just not one of the big named sites.
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Yes but this one does not pester me to add ‘friends’ all the time 
Stuart
Ahh, so the forum could be said to be anti-social media?
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I had a facebook account but only used it to checkin when on holiday once…
I setup a Facebook account in 2006 to monitor my son’s account when he went to college, then to monitor my daughter’s when she went to college in 2011 (they probably had a second account I never knew about!). I never posted. Hadn’t looked at it in over 10 years, but just resurrected it because our new neighborhood has a private page that has useful information about local activities. I do have a LinkedIn account - kind of need one for professional reasons, but I have never posted there either.
I have all the social medias, but I rarely use any of them other than Youtube. I keep aquariums and am a member of the “FishFam” on Youtube. It’s a super supportive group of people that are very inclusive and helpful. We do a lot of charity things and help people out as much as we can.
For example, a friend of ours lost his wife to cancer and his oldest son to covid, all in a couple of months. We were able to raise over $19K from the community to help with funeral expenses.
I enjoy a ton of support from the community and recently passed 11K subscribers which isn’t a lot in the grand scheme of things, but a decent amount for our niche.
{EDIT} I should probably start proofreading.
{EDIT #2} For anybody interested. https://www.youtube.com/@RikoStan
Nothing personal, you understand, but – oh, how I hate YouTube
I get it, I feel the same way about Facebook and Twitter.
It’s not the platform that I enjoy so much, but the group of people I found.
I’ve been a member of a lot of different hobby communities over the decades, but the Fishfam is the most easy going, supportive, enjoyable one I have ever been a part of, including the weather community.
Plus they like to give me money. LOL, sorta kidding there. I don’t engage for the money, but I average about $5k a year and for a retired person (as you know) it’s pretty helpful.
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We build our own… just not to keen on the fact that others are selling my private data for profit.
If a service is free then you are usually the product that’s being sold.
Too many people expect the Internet to be completely free. It’s not and cannot be. Servers, switches, routers, communication links, etc. all cost real money, as does the power to run them and run the A/C to keep them cool. Then there’s the cost of buildings to house them, and staff to run the services.
There are some services run ‘philanthropically’, e.g. this forum and associated services…but whilst you are getting a free service I’ve paid tens of thousands of pounds over the years to keep it all running. Economically that doesn’t make sense though, so if you want a free service from a business then you need to give something back.
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+1, no social media user
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