Anyone else never really got interested in this social network stuff?

CM30

Gaming Latest Admin and Gaming Reinvented Owner
Full GL Member
Credits
1,506
I must have tried Twitter about ten times by now, and not once did I ever manage to keep my interest in using it for more than a day or so. And stuff like Facebook, Tumblr, Google +? I can't really ever feel the need to join any of them.

But hey, I guess I'm just really old fashioned or something. I'm the type of person who can't stand writing even a simple text message with text speak or shortened sentences, and who pretty much looks at kids nowadays like someone fifty years older does.

Anyone else feel the same?
 
I'm pretty much over the whole social network as well. I still use Facebook but only to keep in touch with friends and family. Tried Google + didn't like it, was on twitter for some time back around 07-2010 then just stopped. I just use forums a lot more or skype. As for group messing me and my friend all use "Rooms" with our windows phone it pretty much amazing. Never got into instagram, vine, stuff like that.
 
Yeah, I'm with ya. Social networking is not for me. I only use Facebook to see what my favorite bands are up to; like, if they're touring or writing another record. Stuff of that nature. I rarely use it to talk to friends. I hate Twitter with a passion because of how stupid people are on it. They make some of the stupidest hashtags and photo fads ever. It pisses me off.
 
I use them, but I don't like it. I mean I wouldn't use Facebook ever because it's just a place where drama happens. I see it all the time on my friend's Facebook. It seems pretty unavoidable because there are way too many bitchy girls in today's society that feel the need to start drama all the time. I'm not saying it's all girls or girls in general. Guys are guilty too, but being honest it's just those girls that think the whole world revolves around them when it doesn't.

I use Twitter though for writing and Let's Play reasons. Like one account, I update my followers progress on my book and on the other I just say when I have a new blog or a new video up. Other than that I don't care for it.

I don't understand Tumbr. I don't get the hype and the posts that everyone talks about are NOT funny. I mean sure some have their moments, but that's only because a pun is involved and I love a good pun, but any other time they think they're so funny when they aren't.

Finally Google +... Google + is a joke. No one likes it, the set up kind of sucks. It's also deader than dead. The only reason people do anything on it is because YouTube is connected. I don't know anyone who uses Google + for their enjoyment. It also looks like Myspace from the era when Facebook started to become popular and everyone dropped Myspace like a box of rocks.

That's my opinion on social networks. I don't have anything against them or the people that use them, they just don't seem necessary. If you're going to talk to people use forums. At least the people there will accept you and you don't have to worry about what you post... well pending on what you post anyway.
 
Generally hate social-networking, I feel that it makes me feel more 'socially isolated'.

Facebook:

I have a Facebook account but rarely update or post pictures. I just don't feel comfortable doing so, it's not my type of thing. I use it to contact people through pms and my major use for it at the moment is University/school group work. It's really helpful for group work as no one wants to meet up these days and rather do everything online. Usually when I'm busy I deactivate, I did so once for 4 months, and when I went back, oh gosh made me dislike most of my "friends"- you come to realise that it's really not necessary. I'm currently trying to convert my close friends to skype, successfully converted 1 so far : )


Twitter:
Couldn't careless about this


Tumblr:
Don't have an account, not interested, but I sometimes search for images there. Can be helpful in doing so, but sometimes people post disturbing things : ( makes me wonder how old most users are...
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I mean I wouldn't use Facebook ever because it's just a place where drama happens. I see it all the time on my friend's Facebook. It seems pretty unavoidable because there are way too many bitchy girls in today's society that feel the need to start drama all the time. I'm not saying it's all girls or girls in general. Guys are guilty too, but being honest it's just those girls that think the whole world revolves around them when it doesn't.



You've said that before, and I frankly don't understand the sentiment. People get a bunch of drama because they aren't using the website right. The only people you should even be seeing on your facebook feed are your friends, and possibly any groups you've joined. Your friends shouldn't be causing a ton of drama, and if they are, perhaps they're not very good friends after all? Too many people get on there and 'friend farm'... I know people who have like, a thousand friends, and it's just stupid. It's not a competition.

I use Facebook. It's a great way for me to keep up with my friends from high school and college, since most of them have moved away and live in completely separate cities/countries. I post my art there for them to be able to see it, and they post projects and whatnot they're working on; the large majority of my friends are artists or costume/theater technicians, so it's nice to keep up with what they're doing. I can also see what family are up to, in particular my mom, and I follow a lot of groups and companies as well, so I can see when they release new products, or start events, etc. None of the people I watch start drama or post things I don't like, and the very few that did I stopped following at the least, if not outright unfriending them.

I have a Twitter, but I never, ever bother to check it though. I only watch game companies and whatnot, and I suppose if I actually used Twitter it would be useful as I would see when stuff is released, or they post a blurb about something. Twitter is kind of weird to me. It's too far flung of a social network, like shouting into the wind, but only really short sentences. The only time I've checked it in the past year was when Magic the Gathering: Online went down, and they always post an announcement on when they think it'll come back up.

Google plus is similar to Twitter for me- I have one, but I rarely use it. Being married to a tech person and involved on the computer constantly, I have one, but mostly because when you make a new Google email you get one now. Friends from his work do add me on there, but pretty much only so we can chat on Hangouts. :/

Tumblr though, is fantastic for artists, once you get used to the bizarre way the website is designed. It's definitely not intuitive at first, kind of like a blog, but not? But, once you've learnt your way around, it can be very useful.

Really, I feel like a lot of times when people say they 'don't like social media', it's not that they actually don't like social media, they just don't like the idiotic way a lot of people choose to use it. Social media is a tool and nothing else, and most of the problems you guys have listed are solved by unfriending/unliking the things that are bothering you. If someone's causing drama, or posting stupid things you don't want to see, unfriend them. Following everything on a website is certainly not required, so you can cater the tools to do exactly what you want. And the ways you guys have said you use websites like Facebook (Like keeping up with your favorite bands, families and close friends) that's exactly what the website is for. You're acting like you're 'doing it wrong', or missing out on something, and your not! XD You definitely don't have to deal with all the nonsense that you hear about to enjoy or use the website. :)

Not needing them though, I can understand. If I didn't have such far flung friends, or use a few of the groups there, (And prefer text based communication over phone calls) I most likely would not still be using Facebook. And if Tumblr weren't a boon for a lot of the communities I'm active in, I definitely wouldn't be there. Twitter isn't something I find useful, so I'm basically not there at all. Sometimes a tool just isn't useful to you.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I use facebook to talk to my brother who lives in Edinburgh, and occasionally I'll have a conversation with some of my friends but that's it. I rarely use the status feature, or anything else other than PMs. It's a useful tool that lets me keep in contact with people, wnd that's all it is to me.
 
I mean I wouldn't use Facebook ever because it's just a place where drama happens. I see it all the time on my friend's Facebook. It seems pretty unavoidable because there are way too many bitchy girls in today's society that feel the need to start drama all the time. I'm not saying it's all girls or girls in general. Guys are guilty too, but being honest it's just those girls that think the whole world revolves around them when it doesn't.



"... Too many people get on there and 'friend farm'... I know people who have like, a thousand friends, and it's just stupid. It's not a competition."



^ This. So much this.

The only people I add on Facebook are, you know, people I know in real life.
 
I mean I wouldn't use Facebook ever because it's just a place where drama happens. I see it all the time on my friend's Facebook. It seems pretty unavoidable because there are way too many bitchy girls in today's society that feel the need to start drama all the time. I'm not saying it's all girls or girls in general. Guys are guilty too, but being honest it's just those girls that think the whole world revolves around them when it doesn't.



You've said that before, and I frankly don't understand the sentiment. People get a bunch of drama because they aren't using the website right. The only people you should even be seeing on your facebook feed are your friends, and possibly any groups you've joined. Your friends shouldn't be causing a ton of drama, and if they are, perhaps they're not very good friends after all? Too many people get on there and 'friend farm'... I know people who have like, a thousand friends, and it's just stupid. It's not a competition.

I use Facebook. It's a great way for me to keep up with my friends from high school and college, since most of them have moved away and live in completely separate cities/countries. I post my art there for them to be able to see it, and they post projects and whatnot they're working on; the large majority of my friends are artists or costume/theater technicians, so it's nice to keep up with what they're doing. I can also see what family are up to, in particular my mom, and I follow a lot of groups and companies as well, so I can see when they release new products, or start events, etc. None of the people I watch start drama or post things I don't like, and the very few that did I stopped following at the least, if not outright unfriending them.

I have a Twitter, but I never, ever bother to check it though. I only watch game companies and whatnot, and I suppose if I actually used Twitter it would be useful as I would see when stuff is released, or they post a blurb about something. Twitter is kind of weird to me. It's too far flung of a social network, like shouting into the wind, but only really short sentences. The only time I've checked it in the past year was when Magic the Gathering: Online went down, and they always post an announcement on when they think it'll come back up.

Google plus is similar to Twitter for me- I have one, but I rarely use it. Being married to a tech person and involved on the computer constantly, I have one, but mostly because when you make a new Google email you get one now. Friends from his work do add me on there, but pretty much only so we can chat on Hangouts. :/

Tumblr though, is fantastic for artists, once you get used to the bizarre way the website is designed. It's definitely not intuitive at first, kind of like a blog, but not? But, once you've learnt your way around, it can be very useful.

Really, I feel like a lot of times when people say they 'don't like social media', it's not that they actually don't like social media, they just don't like the idiotic way a lot of people choose to use it. Social media is a tool and nothing else, and most of the problems you guys have listed are solved by unfriending/unliking the things that are bothering you. If someone's causing drama, or posting stupid things you don't want to see, unfriend them. Following everything on a website is certainly not required, so you can cater the tools to do exactly what you want. And the ways you guys have said you use websites like Facebook (Like keeping up with your favorite bands, families and close friends) that's exactly what the website is for. You're acting like you're 'doing it wrong', or missing out on something, and your not! XD You definitely don't have to deal with all the nonsense that you hear about to enjoy or use the website. :)

Not needing them though, I can understand. If I didn't have such far flung friends, or use a few of the groups there, (And prefer text based communication over phone calls) I most likely would not still be using Facebook. And if Tumblr weren't a boon for a lot of the communities I'm active in, I definitely wouldn't be there. Twitter isn't something I find useful, so I'm basically not there at all. Sometimes a tool just isn't useful to you.




I disagree. The reason I don't like social networks much has very little to do with the people (although I don't really get along with today's younger generations much), and more to do with the speed stuff is posted and the time commitments they seem to involve.

Basically, there's too much being too said too quickly, and I find it pretty difficult to keep up and then also post a bunch of stuff on a regular basis. Forums and blogs are a bit more relaxed and tend to be updated far less regularly, so you can keep on top of things easier.

The fact many of them focus mostly around small talk, jokes, short comments and other fairly meaningless content doesn't help either, since I have no interest in that. A good article is depressingly rare in today's era of fluff posting and appealing to the lowest common denominator.
 
I use Facebook occasionally. Never got around to using Twitter but neither did my friends. If I did use one I'd probably just follow a bunch of gaming outlets/companies.

I do use LinkedIn, trying hard to find a job right now.
 
I can't stand FaceBook - or DramaBook as I call it - although I DO have one because it seems almost every game I play requires linking to unlock things (especially on the PS3). I also feel that "Like our page to get things in a game" should be made illegal considering it is a form of bribery. Making people like a FaceBook page to obtain things is a fraudulent means of improving status and rank and totally breaks the ranking system as it doesn't prove you are a good site / company / whatever, but rather, just proves you are too shallow to attempt a higher status without being unfair and cheating. That crap would never be allowed in the U.S.A. with politics, so why allow it for anything else? "Like this President Elect to get a $5 gift certificate" would never be allowed worth a damn!

I have no interest in a Twitter account at all.

My Google+ account was made off of necessity and to be honest, I have no clue how to even get into it, nor do I care.
 
I'm anti-facebook, despite that I have an account. My friend actually made my account for me as I refused to make one. I occasionally use facebook just to keep in contact with people (through PMs) and it's nice to see pictures of what they're up to if I haven't seen them in years. Other than that I literally post nothing and whatever is seen on my wall are tags or post from others. I deleted a lot of 'friends' and I want to tone it down a bit more but I have a hard time deleting some other people because I know they will be offended. I just find the whole social network very self-interested/egotistic and superficial. It's so frustrating when you're hanging out with people, like eating in a restuarant or you're on holiday, and they're glued to their phone screen checking/updating facebook instead of enjoying their environment or my company. It's such a sad thing. But yes it's a nifty tool with moderate use but other than that it's a load of crap.

*rant over*
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I'm anti-facebook, despite that I have an account. My friend actually made my account for me as I refused to make one. I occasionally use facebook just to keep in contact with people (through PMs) and it's nice to see pictures of what they're up to if I haven't seen them in years. Other than that I literally post nothing and whatever is seen on my wall are tags or post from others. I deleted a lot of 'friends' and I want to tone it down a bit more but I have a hard time deleting some other people because I know they will be offended. I just find the whole social network very self-interested/egotistic and superficial. It's so frustrating when you're hanging out with people, like eating in a restuarant or you're on holiday, and they're glued to their phone screen checking/updating facebook instead of enjoying their environment or my company. It's such a sad thing. But yes it's a nifty tool with moderate use but other than that it's a load of crap.

*rant over*

That was beautiful.
 
I've had Facebook, but I don't care for it. I prefer forum sites like this place. I do have a Kik account, but that's just for texting friends.
 
Back
Top