FabSwingers.com forum: Social media

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

You know, the vanilla ones where you have your family and friends and you share cute videos of monkeys...

Do you have it? Do you like it? Is it good or bad?

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

Closed mine down a few month ago.

Best thing i ever did. Dont miss it at all. Also dont use snap chat either.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

We don’t do any social media, don’t even have a website for our company.

Fab is about it for us

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

Never have never will never been interested in it

Just a way to spy on people and stir up trouble

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

"Closed mine down a few month ago.

Best thing i ever did. Dont miss it at all. Also dont use snap chat either.

I shut mine down every so often if I need a break. Or delete the apps off my phone - I don’t use my laptop for anything other than work

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

No I don't have Facebook or anything like that, my friends nag me about it all the time. Now and then I'll look at my other halfs Facebook account and that reminds me why I don't have it!

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

I'm an Avon rep/recruiter so yes I have my personal and business ages linked and I am gaining customers and it is mostly filled with work stuff now so it is useful. -x-

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

Deleted my Facebook about 7 years ago. Don't miss or regret it one bit.

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

I only have it as its a way of keeping in touch with friends who are scattered all over the world..

Same with family..

But i do deactivate it every now and again, same as i do on here..

I can take it or leave it

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

Yeah but I forget to check it after deleting the app to free up some space on my phone.

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

I use Facebook for friends / family. Insta for photo sharing, opinions on Twitter make me laugh / can be interesting & LinkedIn for work.

I don’t necessarily use all of them all of the time. Like here I can quite easily do without for periods of time.

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

"I use Facebook for friends / family. Insta for photo sharing, opinions on Twitter make me laugh / can be interesting & LinkedIn for work.

I don’t necessarily use all of them all of the time. Like here I can quite easily do without for periods of time."

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

I have all of them but I use them to stay in touch with friends and family as travelling around the world every week. I also use Facebook for work groups.

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

"I have all of them but I use them to stay in touch with friends and family as travelling around the world every week. I also use Facebook for work groups."

Stop stalking me !

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

Who has bebo?!

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

This is the only social media we have.

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

Yep fb but mainly for groups about my car and dogs.

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Only got facey b.

Use it to keep in touch with various clubs, groups and for work.

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

Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

I've got a FB Friend from another site (And on here) as facey b friend.

So yes.

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

No way!

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

I use Facebook and Instagram, but I'm much more likely to just share my Instagram posts to my Facebook nowadays.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I have FB with an embarrassingly tiny number of friends. It's a good way of keeping in touch with my far flung family.

I used to have a Twitter account but I made a fairly innocuous remark disagreeing with a "celebrity" and the remarks aimed at me by their fans were shocking. A person who gave a damn what strangers on the net said about them would have been devastated. I thought "meh" and blocked the celebrity then deleted my account a couple of months later.

I think social media has good and bad sides to it and the side we see depends on how we use it. I also think we need to know when to turn our backs on it.

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

And I have. I have four on Facebook and I follow another on Instagram.

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

I failed the first question so il go sit in the corner til im tagged back in

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

the people that use social media, can be drawn into it too much. though sadly it's one of the best media to notify people you dont even know..about your feelings or things that are affecting you.

My sister died in May, for her funeral we had hundreds show for her, alot we didnt know...people we didnt know like college friends etc..Some of these people traveled really far..she must have meant something to them.

The crux is, as a medium when used correctly, facebook(or the most popular medium at the time)is a fantastic thing..though only a couple of hours at most should be needed per day.

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

don't use that crap

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By *ust ClareTV/TS
over a year ago

Settlewick!

Unfortunately, a lot of people run their lives around their social media rather than the other way around

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?

And I have. I have four on Facebook and I follow another on Instagram. "

Can I join you in remus lupin’s bed?

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?

And I have. I have four on Facebook and I follow another on Instagram.

Can I join you in remus lupin’s bed?"

Absolutely

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

I have Facebook as I use it to keep in touch with friends and family spread out all over the uk and abroad. It’s been a great way to talk to my friends in groups. But I’ve cut down how much I use it for about the last year x

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?

And I have. I have four on Facebook and I follow another on Instagram.

Can I join you in remus lupin’s bed?

Absolutely

May I ask - is it men or women you have on social media from fab? would you be more likely to trust a woman?

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

This is about the only social media I partake of - don't have sadbook, twatter, innaquam and the rest of them.

I may open account temporarily but only if such account is needed to gain access to something else

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By *ana_nana_MATTMAN!Man
over a year ago

Haywood Village, Weston-super-Mare

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

I still use Facebook.

I'd probably consider adding someone, if they had a good sense of humour, I got on well enough with them, and they can keep their trap shut lol

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

"the people that use social media, can be drawn into it too much. though sadly it's one of the best media to notify people you dont even know..about your feelings or things that are affecting you.

The crux is, as a medium when used correctly, facebook(or the most popular medium at the time)is a fantastic thing..though only a couple of hours at most should be needed per day.

xxxxxxx

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

Never.

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

"You know, the vanilla ones where you have your family and friends and you share cute videos of monkeys...

Do you have it? Do you like it? Is it good or bad?"

I have it, I hate it and I think it's one of the worst things us humans have created

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?

And I have. I have four on Facebook and I follow another on Instagram.

Can I join you in remus lupin’s bed?

Absolutely

May I ask - is it men or women you have on social media from fab? would you be more likely to trust a woman?"

Lemme think... two men and two women via faceyb and a lady on Instagram. I don't just add anyone and I talked to them enough to trust their discretion. The only one I haven't talked to a great deal is my friend's wife but I trust her.

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

"You know, the vanilla ones where you have your family and friends and you share cute videos of monkeys...

Do you have it? Do you like it? Is it good or bad?

I have it, I hate it and I think it's one of the worst things us humans have created "

Damn right

It'll end in tears

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?

And I have. I have four on Facebook and I follow another on Instagram.

Can I join you in remus lupin’s bed?

Absolutely

May I ask - is it men or women you have on social media from fab? would you be more likely to trust a woman?

Fair enough!!

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

"the people that use social media, can be drawn into it too much. though sadly it's one of the best media to notify people you dont even know..about your feelings or things that are affecting you.

The crux is, as a medium when used correctly, facebook(or the most popular medium at the time)is a fantastic thing..though only a couple of hours at most should be needed per day.

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?

And I have. I have four on Facebook and I follow another on Instagram.

Can I join you in remus lupin’s bed?

Absolutely

May I ask - is it men or women you have on social media from fab? would you be more likely to trust a woman?

Fair enough!!"

Added to that, her hubby is my oldest fab friend and I trust the old sod plenty.

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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

i have a lot of things affecting me, so i monitor facebook for stories about native american indian activism and environmental issues. i sign a lot of petitions and am basically a news junkie. trump has ruined my country with all the oil pipelines. he has gone after national monuments and sites my people consider sacred to sell to oil and mining companies. i guess it is in a person's perspective what is progress.

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

I would if we’d been talking enough and we both valued each other’s privacy. And I have with someone I’ve met x

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

I’ve added two fab friends on Insta recently, both I’ve known for years and trust implicitly.

Otherwise it’s a big fat No.

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

a featured video came up on facebook one day...I dunno but its happiness in a jar and bound to make anyone smile, :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_CgblUsndQ

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

I use Facebook for family, friends and dance related events, photos of my family and friends, to keep in touch with school friends and to play Scrabble with people who obviously cheat.

I don't do Snapchat, Instagram or any other apps like those.

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

I have two people who are on Fab, as Facebook friends.

I met them both before we joined Fab.

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

I've tried. I've really tried to bring myself to join these sites. I mean I can really see how some people make really good use of them. But...

...every time I get close to joining I just think I might as well just phone the CIA directly and let them know of my every movement and thought

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK

I;m a twitter regular, although more browsing than posting lately.

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

I thought of a good social experiment I'd like to see someone do. Take a group of young people who happily share private gossip on Facebook and who are indifferent on the issue of privacy and who say "if you've got nothing to hide then why worry?". Agree with them that they're going to talk about a set of things that are private to them but they would happily share with each other on Facebook. Then shepherd them into a room to do this. Except in the room is either a random adult, a parent, a teacher, or a boss who will listen in to it all. Then monitor how much they clam up.

Then make it clear to them that they do indeed mind having someone listening into their most private secrets. But that the reason why they don't mind doing it on Facebook is because this process of listening in is invisible.

It's going on.

You should be uncomfortable with it.

But you aren't because it's hidden.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

The only reason I made a facebook account was cos ma ex moaned at me for using hers too much to play Angry Birds

I haven't logged in for about 5 years and can't even remember ma password. Never had kik, twitter, instagram or any of that other shit

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By *loswingersCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

"We don’t do any social media, don’t even have a website for our company.

Fab is about it for us "

Exactly the same for us

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

I use Facebook I quite like it and it keeps me in contact with him my friends from home. I have 3 fabbers on it, all of them use the Forums. One is a good female friend who ive known for years, another is a male friend again known for years and never played with, the others is my FWB we added each other before meeting for the first time due to the distance so we could see real photos of each other

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

Facebook is evil,got rid about 7 years ago

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By *appytochatMan
over a year ago

Deep in the New Forest

Facebook is the only one I have. But very very rarely post anything personal. I'd say 98% of anything I do share is just jokes and stupid shit. Other than that it pissed me off seeing what someone is having for breakfast dinner and tea. You can almost time someone's bowel movements from their daily posts

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

We use Facebook to stay in touch with family and friends and yes we have long term friends from here on there too.

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

Every single person I speak to who complains of having troubles will always say Facebook had something to do with it. I’m not saying it’s the problem but it’s not a good thing if you have insecurities x

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

I'd rather do without but alas social media is necessary for both my jobs

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

"Every single person I speak to who complains of having troubles will always say Facebook had something to do with it. I’m not saying it’s the problem but it’s not a good thing if you have insecurities x"

Only use it the bare minimum you need to, problem solved

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

No Bookface, No Instacrap, No Swhitter

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

Only use it the bare minimum you need to, problem solved "

Yep I agree.

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

"Facebook is the only one I have. But very very rarely post anything personal. I'd say 98% of anything I do share is just jokes and stupid shit. Other than that it pissed me off seeing what someone is having for breakfast dinner and tea. You can almost time someone's bowel movements from their daily posts

You could say the same about fab though

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

Scourge of the modern world!

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By *iss.ddWoman
over a year ago

Leeds + Newcastle

It's such an absolutely integral part of my work and my business I am constantly on the main ones, Facebook, twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

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

I have face book, love insta, have a Twitter but not used it in so long forgotten the log in details. Have one friend from fab on fb & insta.

Am planning to do ‘scroll free September’ although daunted by it.

Haven’t decided whether that would include fab, but guess it should really.

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

"Next question; would you add anyone from fab on social media? Someone you hadn’t met?"

I have a few on Instagram and a couple on Facebook and not met but we’ve chatted for ages via whatsapp.

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

I have Facebook but rarely use it these days, it's becoming dull and boring IMHO

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

I use Facebook like an electronic version of the scrap book I had growing up as a kid - a place to store your memories and interesting things.

The "on this day" feature is great - it brings back everything you posted on that day on every year you've been using it.

That alone keeps me there, more so than keeping in touch.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/indonesias-fake-twitter-account-factories-jakarta-politic

If this was being done in Indonesia. You *know* others have already done it right? Can you think of any mass agitations that may have been provoked by being first faked or whipped up by social media platforms anywhere around the world that may have been concocted in the hope of benefitting America or Russia or others? This is the dangerous rot that's got to stop. Perhaps social media products should be banned? A quote from the end of the article...

Researcher Rasidi said buzzer teams operate in the same way as gossip.

“When everyone is talking about the same thing you might think that maybe it’s true, maybe there is some merit to it. That is where the impact lies.”

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

"You know, the vanilla ones where you have your family and friends and you share cute videos of monkeys...

Do you have it? Do you like it? Is it good or bad?"

I do have it, I don’t use it actively. I think the trend is fading..

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

I love it

I have friends I made from here on it as they’re friends for life

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

I have it, but never mix it with this .That's for my real friends only ,i don't even add some work peeps If I don't like them.

Seen people post what their instagrams and twitter handles are,people can find out so much about you from there.

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

I have facebook, twitter, insta, snapchat etc. And the most i will accept people from fab on is snapchat as it shows the least person info..

I like social media as it keeps mw and my mates who live abroad in touch and without maximal effort ahah!

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By *rolicerMan
over a year ago

Abergele

Just use it for information groups I'm in or run.

Don't tell people where I am, what I'm doing, eating.

Imaging it popping up on your time line, you recently visited townhouse, or cupids, can you rate it, lololol

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By *ids_NaughtyCouple
over a year ago

West Midlands

Have none, and what I’ve been predicting for years is finally happening, the realisation that people finally waking up to how these companies you pay nothing to to use their service became so rich, that people waking up to the fact that social media drive their lives rather than their life driving social media. This week all the social media sites lost billions as people wake up to the dangers its created, for no real benefit to the human race.

It’s just as easy to send an email(just don’t use google mail) , text, or make a phone call to share pictures stories etc with far flung friends or families, phot sharing albums, eaisly created on your phone, group chat.

We will see in about 10 years(if they exist) the effects of the this age on children who have grown up on its reliance, and how things come back to haunt them in their professional or personal lives, from what may have been a naive child hood decision, but the social acceptance of which is no longer current, but the social media view will seemjust as current today, we’ve already seen some high profile cases of people’s social media history catching up with them, and often for what looked like innocent posts(and probably were at the time)

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

Use twitter all the time to follow football accounts. I love it.not fussed by any of others though

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

Give up book face years ago .Its a doomed platform .Kids think it's just for the oldies today.

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By *eKoopleCouple
over a year ago

Germany / Manchester

Digital Social Media is neither good or bad; it's a platform where human interaction creates the content that we see and often don't see, and it's the behaviour of humans that are making this networks evolve. Including the use of this site!

I only use the platforms for business as part of my companies job is to create leads for our clients, who pay to have their products and service presented in front of a targeted market. It's similar to what advertising was in the 50's, only this time it's much faster and much more intelligent.

It would be nieve to say it doesn't have dangers, and unfortunately, the risks are created by those who do not pay enough due diligence to safeguard themselves. They post without thinking! None of the platforms would have existed without people's drive for the Capital Vices (aka The Seven Deadly Sins)

As a parent, with millennials, we've made it part of our job educate and often monitor what our children watch, post and share and allowing enough freedom for them to learn. If children are falling to the dangers then who is to blame? We placed porn magazines on the top shelves back in the day to help safeguard our children, why is it so hard to keep our children safe today? Parents need to look parenting on a different level than ever before and stop blaming DSM for their shortfalls. The same goes for adults.

It's true the numbers of specific platforms are falling but not enough for these platforms to crumble, and only because the next generation of curious humans is around the corner.

Could this be the birth of the real Skynet?

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

I don’t use it myself as I’m not particularly interested in what a friend of a friend of a friend is presently having for lunch.....

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

I use facebook to keep up with dances and gigs and a few old friends, but no way do I want anyone from fab on there. I don't see any social nastiness in my social circle, just some political rants sometimes.

I do feel there needs to be much tighter legislation on privacy etc, and the way some kids use it is deeply worrying.

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

"I don’t use it myself as I’m not particularly interested in what a friend of a friend of a friend is presently having for lunch.....

Why not?!

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

"I don’t use it myself as I’m not particularly interested in what a friend of a friend of a friend is presently having for lunch.....

Why not?! "

I live for finding out that one of my fb friends has got their shopping delivered 2 minutes early

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple
over a year ago

London

I don't have enough time to keep up with real life family and friends never mind on line ones.

The only social media site I am on is this one.

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By *HaRiFMan
over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"You know, the vanilla ones where you have your family and friends and you share cute videos of monkeys...

Do you have it? Do you like it? Is it good or bad?"

No I closed mine down several years ago I found it a toxic environment.

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