Weekend Open Forum: Do you use social media?

I jumped on the social networking / media bandwagon pretty early on when MySpace was just starting to take off. I rode the social wave over to Facebook and hung around there for about seven years before finally deciding to...

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Yes, around 15 hours per day 24/7, 80% of it is part of my job while the rest is gaming and technology forums which I guess also counts as social media.

No social media here.
(if tech sites are not counted)

I think all my friends have facebook accounts and know how to post pics taken from their smart/dumb phones.

Got sucked into the Twitterverse after following a couple of people. Used to have Facebook but tossed it to the wind when they introduced the timeline format.

I've tried lots of them, including the very sociable - dating - sites, but nothing stuck because it seemed like I was not really living and I decided it was much better to meet people face to face. It really shows how important they are to me. But I know that I miss out on lots of things going on because I'm not "connected", so I guess there must be a happy balance there somewhere.

Never touch the stuff..total abstention..of course, being a genius, I have no need for it..and way too many interesting things to do anyway.

I keep a Facebook account for quick and easy talking with certain family members. I don't really bother that much with it for other purposes though.

I've thought about taking up twitter, but I don't see much of a point.

If you count online multiplayer gaming then yup! ;p

I dropped Facebook for Twitter a month or so ago to keep up with Battlefield 3 updates, UFC via Dana White, AMD Catalyst Creator Andrew, and the like.

I never could get a grip on social media. Eventually I made a decision that social media sites are not for me. I will sit back and wish everyone else good fortune with them.

Very little. I have a FB account, but that's mainly to keep in touch with my relatives as they have for whatever reason forgotten how to use e-mail or make a phone call.

Otherwise, forget it - too much of a nuisance for me.

Had a facebook account a few years back, didn't set much point of it so I deleted it.

No twitter, no facebook, profile only on LinkedIn.

I didn't join Facebook until it was 2010 where it grew unexpectedly. Like everybody else, I'm always geared up for posting in that social network ever since. And there's Twitter too.

Never. Anything that requires logging into a useless, anti-privacy data mining service is no more worthwhile than the service itself. BTW, when did it become social <b>media</b> and not social <I>networking</I>? Did the blogosphere finally realize that FB and its vile cousins are only about mutual narcissism?

I honestly don't have very many friends in the real world. however I do have a Facebook, and a YouTube account.
rarely use em'

Only use twitter with some regularity, but that is where it ends.

I used to use the likes of Facebook, but these days, I've had all my social accounts deleted and never looked back. Initially, it was just a simple case of "I have issues with the ever changing privacy policies" Now, I'm just flat out sick of social media. You can't find many websites where there isn't a slew of FB, Google+, Twitter and Blogger like and repost facilities. I might not have a list of thousands of friends, with my decision to completely abandon social media, but the friends I've got actually call, text and hang out with me instead of expecting me to smack my face against a screen until time collapses in on itself.

It seems as though social media is becoming one of those "cool things to hate" topics - "oh yeah, Ive disconnected my facebook account and my life has become sooo much better" crowd.

Personally, Im a tech connoisseur like most on Techspot, but enjoy my facebook experience immensely

Most of my family live hundreds if not thousands of miles away, and its nice to see even just ramblings posted...

I also use facebook similar to an internet forum... I post questions which I need answers to, I share interesting topics which I think will benefit some contacts... and post pictures of my daughter for her aunt and grandma to see both in Scotland and the the Philippines.

I love social media... so bahumbug haters