FabSwingers.com forum: Social Media

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Firstly I'd like to say that I've never been a massive fan of Social Media, I'm one of these people that likes to conduct my life in person, not over the internet. I only joined Facebook because a few mates mithered me and I've probably posted less than 5 times since. Instagram - Nope not for me, who wants to see pouting selfies of me 24/7?.

Twitter - Lots of angry people ranting at others and trying to befriend famous people for some reason.

So when Brexit kicked off it showed a lot of "friends" (in loose terms) on my Facebook account in a really bad light (Xenophobic comments etc). I just blocked updates from them or de-friended them full stop. Then when COVID arrived there was the non-stop conspiracy theories, fake news and just general ignorance from a lot of people I thought I knew better. One of my siblings then got over preachy and started arguing with every random on FB (yes they may be wrong but sometimes you just don't need to get involved).

So at that point I just decided that rather than depress myself further by reading constant drivel I'd detox myself from Social Media. The FB app got deleted and I only look on Twitter a few times a week to get updates from the sports teams I support.

I'll tell you what, I don't half feel better for it as well. The world is a shit enough place right now without taking in everyone else's anger and stress as well!

So has anyone else done anything similar and decided to give Social Media a swerve and do they miss seeing pictures of the pizza their mate has just had for tea?

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

I'm only on here

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Oh and before anyone says it, Fab is not Social Media in my eyes.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Oh and before anyone says it, Fab is not Social Media in my eyes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Posts on social media, to tell everyone he doesn’t use social media.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Facebook is controlling and depressing, Twitter is a battleground, Instagram isn't so bad as it's mostly pretty pictures, but yeah I'm with you OP. Social Media is bad for your health. As is the news.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Facebook and that's it

I have also met everyone on my friends list

By all, I have been on there 8 or 9 years and have around 40 friends

Some peoples lists are in the thousands

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh and before anyone says it, Fab is not Social Media in my eyes.

The Forums are social media, they’re communities of people discussing online, that’s social media.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Facebook and that's it

I have also met everyone on my friends list

By all, I have been on there 8 or 9 years and have around 40 friends

Some peoples lists are in the thousands

I think some see having 2000 on their friends list as a badge of honour. I've got 6 or 7 really close mates outside family and that's enough for me. The rest are more acquaintances etc who I'd speak to or bump into once or twice a year.

Even LinkedIn (which I have to use for job searches etc) has morphed into FB.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Facebook and that's it

I have also met everyone on my friends list

By all, I have been on there 8 or 9 years and have around 40 friends

Some peoples lists are in the thousands

Even LinkedIn (which I have to use for job searches etc) has morphed into FB.

I won't go on LinkedIn

I had a disagreement with a former employer over that

They tried to write into my contract that whilst I worked there I had to have a LinkedIn profile and keep it maintained

Two fingers to that one

It's just facebook for nosey bastards at work

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Signed up to Facebook when it first went 'global' and didn't like it then - so haven't used it since. Had a look at Instagram but not for me. Still got a Twitter account but use it about once a year.

Definetly not a fan of social media.

Yes the forum is a type of 'social media' (as in relating to human organisation and communicating information) but if you're going to use that broad definition then the whole of the internet could be seen as social media and include text messages, phone calls etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Facebook and that's it

I have also met everyone on my friends list

By all, I have been on there 8 or 9 years and have around 40 friends

Some peoples lists are in the thousands

If you live in a city it's not difficult to have 1000s of friends acquaintances.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a fb account but its only really used so customers can contact me or I load my photography. Thats it. Fb don t let me see much anyways as I ve such a small number of friends. Tbh this is the only place I frequent.

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By *stroboy78Man
over a year ago

Abergavenny

I have zero social media no have I ever had any, it drives my mates round the bend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Honestly, this place can be as bad. The forums are pretty all-or-nothing, at least on Facebook you can block people so you don't have to deal with the steaming pile of opinions they drop.

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By *ungBlackTopMan
over a year ago

salford

Agree OP social media has killed any sense of meaningful social interaction. The millennial generation have no social/people skills and the majority are illiterate. Social media has its value to share news but it has increased the incidence of mental health problems. I think it's done more damage than benefit.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Agree OP social media has killed any sense of meaningful social interaction. The millennial generation have no social/people skills and the majority are illiterate. Social media has its value to share news but it has increased the incidence of mental health problems. I think it's done more damage than benefit."

Yeah I'm with you 100% mate. And as you're in Salford like me you're probably well aware that the locals don't need Social Media to make them any dumber.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything that can get a guy like Trump elected has to be fairly malignant.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

This is the only social media I’m on, and everyone here is sooooo nice, no bitchin’, no false news, no nothing. This is the place to be

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Facebook and that's it

I have also met everyone on my friends list

By all, I have been on there 8 or 9 years and have around 40 friends

Some peoples lists are in the thousands

If you live in a city it's not difficult to have 1000s of friends acquaintances."

I do live in a city - the third most populous in the UK

I just don't add people I meet in bars or friends of friends

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"This is the only social media I’m on, and everyone here is sooooo nice, no bitchin’, no false news, no nothing. This is the place to be

Fuck off beardy twat, who asked your opinion?

Sorry couldn't resist.

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Can anyone remember faceparty?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Facebook and that's it

I have also met everyone on my friends list

By all, I have been on there 8 or 9 years and have around 40 friends

Some peoples lists are in the thousands

If you live in a city it's not difficult to have 1000s of friends acquaintances.

I do live in a city - the third most populous in the UK

I just don't add people I meet in bars or friends of friends

Fair enough, I had a bar to promote and never refused an add on principle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I deactivated my Facebook and it’s the best thing I did. My dog has a Facebook account

but it means I can follow the pages I need such as my hairdresser without having knobheads on my feed. Never used Twitter or insta

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh and before anyone says it, Fab is not Social Media in my eyes.

The Forums are social media, they’re communities of people discussing online, that’s social media."

^^^^ This

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

I cannot see any benefit in having a Facebook, Instagram, Et al account.

I suppose in my case it is an age thing.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

I'm just plain nosey ! So love them all f book/Instagram/tic tok x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I really like insta but that's the only one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have Facebook but anyone I'm friends with i would sit and have coffee or a drink with them. I find it great for promoting local businesses, there are some great support groups out there that people wouldn't know about because of social media. I hide my profile every now and than and take a complete break from it at times and it does me good.

Instagram I love and prefer that to Facebook.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've got a twitter account, but for the life in me I haven't got a clue how to work it

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I only made a faceache account cos ma ex was getting pissed off with me using her laptop to play Angry Birds. That was about 9 years ago, I've not logged in for years and can't even remember ma password

Other than that, I'm just on here

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By *uriouscouple83Couple
over a year ago

Worcester

I do use social media a lot but I work in digital marketing so it’s a necessary evil. Fab is the only place I spend much of my personal time.

Knowing that Judy who lives 90+ miles away got creampied by 6 guys last night is much more interesting to me than what my second cousin had for lunch or that someone who I went to school with’s son scored a try in his non-contact rugby match.

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By *erDirtyRockstarMan
over a year ago

buckinghamshire

Well strictly speaking this app is a form of social media. However there is a bad sort of social media in the form of news feeds whose algorithms are designed such that you end up scrolling through a feed of negative noise. Negativity always garnishes attention sadly. Facebook.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a Twitter account.

Don’t go on as much as I used to but it’s good for news, local info, following football teams and I’ve had a few dates through it in the past.

Its not all negative, there has been some very positive things on there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yup totally agree on this. Suprised a mask and phone holder hasn t been invented so, like a kangaroo you can walk hands free whilst one eyes on the screen

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

Don't have any social media and think i'm certainly better off for it.

Unless fab counts as a form of social media ofc

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

They have their uses and can be contained.

Facebook is good for keeping in quick touch with people from all over the world.

Twitter is great as a quick way to bookmark various experts who blog and comment on public events outside the media.

Instragram is good for fluffier inspiration (and, oddly, virology summaries. Who knew)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love facebook and Instagram

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anything that can get a guy like Trump elected has to be fairly malignant."

Do you mind if I ask if you feel the same about it been used to get what ever your choice of political party elected in this country?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anything that can get a guy like Trump elected has to be fairly malignant.

Do you mind if I ask if you feel the same about it been used to get what ever your choice of political party elected in this country?"

Yes I would feel the same if the tactics used by Trump were the same.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anything that can get a guy like Trump elected has to be fairly malignant.

Do you mind if I ask if you feel the same about it been used to get what ever your choice of political party elected in this country?

Yes I would feel the same if the tactics used by Trump were the same. "

But genuinely they are!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

If you're born between about 1980/1 to 1996, you're a Millennial according to the definition online. People aged 39 dissing the millennial group diss themselves. I'm a millennial, not that I want to be categorised as such. Too many people think the term refers to people born on/around the Millennium, but these are apparently Gen Z.

It's all a load of bunkum, making sweeping statements that apply to ALL people born within almost a 20yr timespan (same with any of these Generation things - Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennial/Gen Y, Gen Z or whatever).

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"If you're born between about 1980/1 to 1996, you're a Millennial according to the definition online. People aged 39 dissing the millennial group diss themselves. I'm a millennial, not that I want to be categorised as such. Too many people think the term refers to people born on/around the Millennium, but these are apparently Gen Z.

It's all sloppy thinking.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's good and bad in social media.

But yeah I do agree some times its great to get off it for a while!!!

Some people become far too obsessed with it and it affects their mental health. You have to take it all with a pinch of salt.

If you havent you should watch a documentary called The social dilemma, really interesting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you mind if I ask if you feel the same about it been used to get what ever your choice of political party elected in this country?

Yes I would feel the same if the tactics used by Trump were the same.

But genuinely they are!"

How can you say that when you don't know my choice of political party?

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