Do you still do facebook/other social media.

Yea as mentioned I don't have the social media connections. I do troll FB but you don't need a FB account to do that and it is exclusive activity to find cool bands.

My son has an Instagram after he won a big yo yo competition last year so it was a necessary evil to help promote his dream. We parents monitor it and his "friends" are exclusively other players so it is good for him and his obsession.

James B. wrote:

This board is a form of social media. So I say yes to "other social media".  My opinion of Facebook is it usually becomes a drama magnet for those I know that use it.   I chose not to use Facebook and can still use the thing on the wall to communicate with friends and family.  I don't use a cell phone either.  

Message boards aren't SM, imo. It is a way of communicating online, yes but SM? Nah.

Thr SM sites have million of users. This page has about 25 regular posters. Not very social.

And I don't live near most of my family. My brother pulled the same guilt trip on me when I turned facebook off. "How will the family stay in touch with you?

I said "Uhh, call me?"

Facebook and Myspace.

I own a telephone. Does that count as a social medium?

I have everything. Haha. I mainly use Facebook, though. I have a Twitter account for writing and Shock Totem, but rarely use them. Same with Instagram. I use that for my fishing group, but never remember to post anything. Haha.

Anyway, if you have Facebook, shoot me a request. I need more music fans. Most of my online friends are authors and fishermen. Few people comment on my music posts.

https://www.facebook.com/thatguykenwood

I walked away for the most part and it's been a healthy move. 2018 was nasty busy anyway and I needed to drop distractions to get shit done. I've missed this board way more than I have Facebook. Now I'm on Reddit, which is arguably more addictive than Facebook lol.

FB isn't a bad place, actually, I enjoyed discussing music there. Other than that, though, not really my thing for many reasons that others have stated.

I use facebook... Its the only way to hear news and weather updates where we live... Our local news guy said they will only post weather alerts on facebook and not their official site

brokentulsa wrote:

I use facebook... Its the only way to hear news and weather updates where we live... Our local news guy said they will only post weather alerts on facebook and not their official site

Wow!  What the hell is that????

Sounds like things really are broken in Tulsa. 

Wow! What the hell is that???? wrote:

We are in Lubbock Texas now and yes its a crap town ..We hope to move this summer..

Dropped Facebook this year.
It was a time waster.
Plus - rats would surf my sh*t -
it was hardly friends - etc - maybe in the beginning -
now its a propaganda machine -
more geared towards little kids, imo -
many silly ass photos with silly ass captions too -
don't miss it - at all - surprisingly.

corplhicks wrote:

Now I'm on Reddit, which is arguably more addictive than Facebook lol.

I've thought about joining Reddit, but I'm probably better off keeping my comments to myself.

I fart around on Reddit every so often, but it's too easy to fall down a rabbit hole on that site and never come out. There are "commmunities" or "sub-reddits" devoted to pretty much any subject/interest you can think of, some of which cannot be un-seen, if you know what I'm sayin'... *(shudder)*

Fat Freddy wrote:

I fart around on Reddit every so often, but it's too easy to fall down a rabbit hole on that site and never come out. There are "commmunities" or "sub-reddits" devoted to pretty much any subject/interest you can think of, some of which cannot be un-seen, if you know what I'm sayin'...  *(shudder)*

Oh yea, I've been around on the ol' interwebs long enough and seen things I wish I hadn't. I could easily get sucked into a Reddit black hole for hours if I didn't police myself. Although I do enjoy watching r/awww videos with my daughter.

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Although I do enjoy watching r/awww videos with my daughter.

My sons and I like r/doggo and r/rarepuppers.

Yeah Reddit is fun stuff, can be addictive. I think my favorite sub is r/askreddit. It's interesting for reasons I can't even explain.

Best thing about Reddit is the anonymity, sort of like this place. I remember making a Facebook post a ways back of some tracks I listened to at the gym (I know, douchey), and one of them was Fucking Hostile. Man, the shitstorm that followed. My cousin, my aunt, my grandma, an old youth pastor, one of my CLOSE friends, and the dad of my best friend from High School brought the hammer down on me. I hadn't seen the dad in 20 years and he just went full didactic without restraint (I somehow got labelled a "progressive," quotes and all). It was all brutally preachy and not at all how anybody would act in public. All over the title of a song.

I eventually became really mentally exhausted taking into consideration my entire audience when prepping to post something. It's not that I want to care about their reaction. I just don't want to deal with the aftermath.

I'm clueless about reddit.

Big Rich wrote:

I'm clueless about reddit.

I dunno about anyone else but it took me a hot minute to get into Reddit. At first I was a little confused, found a sub of interest, hung out there for a while, found another sub, realized that there's a bazillion different subs (sub are basically like topics, sorta how we have Unsound Mind, Gutterbox etc), started subscribing, and boom I was hooked. And this only started happening last month. Only problem is I can't find a decent music/rock/metal/band sub. There's a nice Opeth one but otherwise nothing with discussion like HoM.

Yea, Reddit is the same principle as an old fashioned message board, just a LOT bigger.

I turned down my "main" account on FB , now I have 2 others that I use much less that this one I shut down . Was the wisest decision I had on the end of 2017 , and I don´t regret .

Troublezone wrote:

manny wrote:

I use Facebook, but usually just for a music blog

I preferred using MySpace back in the day. It was good for music related stuff.

I never used Myspace much back when it was all the rage. I did create a Myspace back in 2006, but I didn't use it much.

I created a Facebook profile the following year, and have always been a regular user.

It was around late 2007/early 2008 Facebook began to take over Myspace as the king of social networking. Many people who were regular Myspace users ended up ditching it in favor of Facebook.

Myspace more or less became irrelevant as a social network once the 2010s rolled around.

Lol so I've been looking at my old 2004 Xanga posts and I'm ASHAMED.

ASHAMED.

The only thing I still use is Instagram. I'm cool with harmless posts of pics of people's records and toys and shit.

I stopped using Facebook altogether about a year ago. Between the fact that the company is outright terrible and that it led to the worst version of myself, it was time to ditch that shit.

Friendships that lasted decades crumbled because Facebook allowed us to show and see how big of assholes we actually all are, myself included. Ha.