Am I the only one who has never used any social media site?
 

Other than online forums, I have never used a single one of those "social media" websites. I've never even had my own facebook page.

I've never used myspace or facebook, never used twitter, never had a tumblr account, never had a livejournal or online blog, etc. I've never used any of this stuff. I've just never had a use for any of it.

Maybe it has to do with my age, as I first started using the internet around 1998-1999 when all this stuff didn't exist, and everyone just used to post on forums or fansites. I remember geocities of all things being the big thing back then.

I feel like I'm still living in the stone age of the internet when we just used to post on forums.

No point in using all of those websites unless you have a business and want to promote it. Just pick one and stick with it. Facebook usually being the prime choice by most people.

Yeah, I only even got FB because everyone in wrestling made me. Not gonna lie, it was a good decision, I've gotten a lot of work out of it. But I put it off as long as I could and even now I often go up to a month without touching it. I will say, I've reconnected with a lot of friends and family I hadn't seen in years, which is great, but it can also be a huge pain in the ass. Especially the stupid game requests.

I never bothered with the rest of it. Especially twitter. Everyone says to get it but it's like, "I have FB as it is, why do I have to be online all day with all these stupid little things? What can anyone possibly say within two sentences or less that could possibly be important?"

This place and FB is all the internet I can handle. People might as well just have a jack from their mobile to their skull, anymore.

I've never wasted time with Facebook, Twitter, or whatever. I didn't even know Instagram was a thing until like a month ago. I'm just not an interesting person. The closest I have to a social media page is my YouTube channel. I waste too much time screwing around on the Internet as it is without social media BS.

Cyber, you couldn't possibly be more disingenuous right now.
You use all of the sites you've listed. Oh you might not have your own username/password for each site, but you use them, have used them, and will continue to use them.

I did start lurking tumblr around the time I started watching Avatar for the first time, but I still don't have my own account. I prefer just to read things and send anon asks.

As for everything else I honestly don't and never had them. I have no facebook page at all, and I never had a reason to use livejournal/blogs/twitter since I post all my opinions on forums anyway.

I didn't even get into youtube much until recently, and that's only because shows started to be officially uploaded there by sites. I never watch any of those horrid "youtube celebs" and all those whiny teens and 20 year olds who post "selfies" or whatever today's modern youth calls it.

Facebook has everything you need in a social network, while twitter, instagram, etc. all lack some features and don't offer anything that facebook doesn't already. Not to mention you can post longer messages and statuses on fb. No need to join twitter just to announce the world that you're taking a dump or reading a book as you type it.

:lol: Amen. I'm so violently anti-"Mundane Posts" on FB. I mean, yeah, it's enticing... "I'm enjoying my steak... maybe I should tell everyone about it!" But people need to take five seconds and ask if anyone besides themselves give a sh*t before they post it. Or the "Cliffhangers", where people just say, "F*ck my life", or, "I can't believe this is happening...", and nothing else, and just wait for someone to ask if they're okay or whatever. For one, if it's a disaster situation, you're not pausing mid-stream to tell the world about it, and secondly, stop fishing for attention!

My wife is on FB a lot, and she has fun with it. She's always asking me why I'm not more active, and I tell her the honest truth: "I'm pretty sure nobody gives a sh*t." I'm most active right before and right after a wrestling show, since I have to promote it and then pimp the pics and the youtube, but otherwise, I don't really care about it.

Yeah I can understand why teens use twitter and social networking, honestly as a teen what else do you have to do? But as a 20+ or 30 year old adult? What the hell are you using it for?

Do you really have to tell the world you bought a new T-shirt or that you're going to a movie Saturday night? This is riveting information?

I swear Cybercubed is an 80 year old man from Kentucky.

I'm a military brat. As such i have friends all over the world who've settled somewhere some are even in the service now themselves. Facebook is the best way to keep in touch with them.

How about anything else at all? Don't enable the little bleary-eyed f*ckwits. Those kids have PLENTY to do besides stare at a screen all day.

There's more options for entertainment than ever before, well beyond FB and stupid twitter. Which is why whenever I hear anyone say the words, "I'm bored", I set them ablaze, feeling confident that I've done them a great service, since even if they burn to ash, at least their final moments weren't f*cking "boring".

Exactly. I'm never bored. I rearrange my shelves, come on here, work out at the gym, school, ect.

Well, at least you're using Facebook the right way - to keep in touch with people across the world. Using it to advertise the fact that you're eating ice cream or buying a new pair of pants - as many people seem to do - is just stupid.

How you get all that done with the burdens of a paper route AND an 8pm bedtime is a mystery to me. 8)

I kid, I kid. You know you're alright by me, Junior.

I'm so busy with work and local stuff, I barely have time to get on here anymore. I definitely don't have time to swim through facebook or twitter. The closest 'social' thing I have, kinda, is MyFitnessPal. :ohwell:

I don't use many either. I don't even hang on message boards as much as I used to, other than here, mostly. Occasionally, I may go to the other boards that I used to always frequent, like the You Can't Do That on Television one (but the boards are so dead, I don't bother as much anymore), Do As Infinity (my favorite Japanese music group, but when they disbanned a few years ago, I didn't hang around the boards as much, but they regrouped in 2009, but even then, I still haven't felt compelled to hang on the boards as much and lurk), With the Will (I haven't been active at this particular Digimon board for years), DATs (after I was dropped from the fansubbing group I stopped hanging around, but may check out the boards sometimes), Bulbagarden (I'm a mod there, and still don't hang around much lol), Chamber of Secrets (After the final Harry Potter book, I just gradually lost interest, but I still may lurk), and Detective Conan (I used to hang here a lot...now, not so much since I stopped watching the anime years ago and stuck to the manga, but I do still watch the films and I watched the last two in theaters and would share what I saw with those not living here).

I only go to tumblr if someone links me to something they want to show me and it just happens to be on Tumblr or Deviantart (I do have an account there because of my being a Koumi fan, but that's pretty dead, probably...I rarely go there and forget I even have an acct lol). I didn't know what tumblr was until a few months ago. I don't use Twitter or keep up with anyone on it. I don't use that other thing I just heard about a few weeks ago. I think Instagram? I still don't know what that is.

I had Myspace, but I only signed up for that years ago because Rie Fu had one and I liked her music and the only way to view her page, you had to be a member, but I didn't really hang there long. Same with Twitter. I signed up a couple of years ago because I'd heard that Akino Arai had one and since I had, and authored a thread, on the old J-Pop forum I used to go to, I wanted to keep up with cd release information as well as concert information to keep my thread current...but I got sick of that really fast. lol

I forgot about livejournal until I saw Cyber mention it. I have one still, but haven't used it since...maybe...2009 and who knows how long before then. It was a big gap.

I use Skype and Facebook the most. I got FB back in 2008. Was talked into it, but I never really used it. I didn't start actually using FB until I came to Japan back in 2010 to keep in touch with my family better. I use the FB messenger a lot. Back home, it was rare I even lurked it. After that tsunami/earthquake hit here back in 2011, it was very useful. Even though no one could find me (including those who lived here), when I did finally make some kind of contact, the message was relayed and shared on Facebook to calm the nerves of my friends and family back home.

I tried a Facebook account once, but there is nothing on it and I don't even visit it. I'd like to delete it, but I think it involves having to calling up Customer Service.

The other things like Twitter and whatnot I don't do, they just seem kind of pointless to me.

I have an account at DeviantArt, but I don't know how much that counts as 'social media.' I just like to go there and look at the pictures and fave them, I don't have a scanner to upload any of my own.

Oh, puh-lease. Anyone who was truly an "early adopter" knows all we had in the beginning were clunky listservs and newsgroups.

I use it to keep my family updated because I'm the black sheep, who nobody talks to, but, I know my dad would like to know what's up with my life because he's the only one that really cares about me. It's just that my dad is very reserved, so, I know it's difficult for him to hold a serious conversation with me. So, I, basically, use it as my public journal, so it's more convenient with my dad to know what's going on with me.

There's a lot of my pictures and my thoughts on everything, like, justice in the US, regarding the US's unjust law system because of the lack of confrontation with truth and reconciliation with its history...to something less thoughtful, like how much I hate snap-back hats because my head is too big for less than two snap-buttons on the hat. I tend to make a lot of jokes because I know my dad would laugh at them.

Also, sometimes, I keep in contact with old friends. But, I'm not that great with social media, with keeping up with everyone on social media.

I didn't know that those existed, although I only used the Internet since 2006... :P

I've been using the internet for about as long as he has, originally only using IMs and forums with that much frequency... until everyone stopped using IMs as much. [Why did that stop?] Then I got a Tumblr, and after that Facebook and Twitter. It was just easier to talk to people in my fandoms that way.

Honestly I prefer IMs and forums, but whatever.

Oh yeah, and I never used Chat Rooms, or AIM, or Skype or whatever else those "face to face" messages are called.

I feel like I'm living in The Jetson's time period when I see stuff like that.

Ah yeah, I remember that. I used to do a lot of AIMing, and had IRC or whatever it was because one of my friends was semi-famous and preferred it to AIM b/c they'd get flooded with messages whenever they signed onto AIM, so IRC was how we kept in touch, but that was brief.

I kinda miss AIM, too, mostly b/c I had a ton of awesome friends on there who I lost track of the first time my internet died and I vanished for like two years (a couple of you may remember, I know GK does), and now I doubt I'll ever be in touch with them again. But that's life, I guess. Plus I forgot all my passwords, haha.

I do sorta feel like FB streamlined and condensed a lot of that stuff into something that's easier to use, but on the flip side, I hate knowing I'm being spied on and everything I say or Like is being fed into some corporation. But then, that's anything anymore. Buy a certain book, you're on a List. Save a certain show to your DVR, you're on a List. I could go on forever about how easily we trade away our privacy for the sake of convenience, but I already have many times, so I won't. I mean, I like FB, I just don't think people use it "right" and it sucks there's no real privacy to it. Ah well.

Which is funny, because AIM's been around since 1997 and Skype's been around since 2003. :roll:

Yeah, I used to just IM people links to whatever ridiculous site I found at 2 in the morning and create a whole conversation out of it. I also used it for roleplay [which is about the only thing I still manage to use AIM for nowadays]. I have no idea if AIM was ever more private than Facebook, but it sure had that feel to it.

And I know what it's like to get bombarded with messages as soon as you sign on. Just one reason why I got into the habit of rarely turning my computer off; if I was always online, messages would get spaced out to a manageable extent. And if I just didn't want to be messaged at all, AIM had a function that made you appear invisible [as did any other IM platform]. Habits I still use with Skype today. :V

Skype is pretty beautiful, by the way. It's so much easier to start a voice call and talk into my wireless headset while doing things around the house or playing a video game.

So is Skype primarily face-to-face/audio, or does it have a function where you can just type as well?

I never really used any instant-messaging type things because I really have to be in the right headspace for talking one-on-one (basically, I just get nervous); I kind of get that thing where I worry that I won't have anything to say, whereas an email, PM or a messageboard gives me time to gather my thoughts a bit.

I never knew you could do "face-to-face" chatting with AIM. News to me. Skype, yeah.

Skype is very useful, especially for job interviews outside of your state, city, or country. I've used it for interviews and honestly, this was the initial reason I even started using Skype to begin with. I used to go to a type of class to help improve one's chances of landing interviews and the instructor mentioned using Skype...which was about...8 years ago. If I couldn't find work in my town, I wanted to show that I was flexible enough to relocate and apply for jobs elsewhere.

Now, I use Skype mostly to talk to family back home, but since I'll be quitting this job soon, I'll probably start using it for interviewing again. Anywho, I do video chats with my family at least once or twice a week (weekend) and when I was stuck in the hospital for those 6 or 7 weeks, my mother was able to call me everyday twice a day because of the phone set up Skype has.

I have an online "Skype" number which I decided on about four years ago when I moved to Japan the first time. I set up the number so that it'll have the same area code as my hometown (804) so they can call from a landline. The call is considered local for them and if I call them through Skype to phone, it's considered local for me, but I do have to pay a small fee (like $.0001 a minute or something), but if they call me, it costs me nothing. It's like how people called collect back in the day. Talk real fast and hang up. lol I usually call, let them know I'm available, hang up and they call me back.

So yeah, in my case, Skype is a bit of a necessity as far as family goes and for work, it's useful for job interviews and I need to get on the ball and start putting in resumes and interviewing for spring jobs. I don't plan to put in my 3 month notice until after I renew my work visa, though, so that it'll be easier for me to look for work over here if I decide to actually stay here and already have an advantage over overseas applicants.Yeah. It's capable of voice chatting, video chatting, and just plain old typing (IMing).A few years ago, I kinda went AWOL on all my messenger things for a long period of time. About two years or so. I didn't return to them until about 2009.

Prior to that, I used to use AIM, MSN (I used to play Pristontale, so many of the players that were on there that I'd befriended would talk outside of the game on MSN, same with Final Fantasy XI), IRC and ICQ, (I used that back in like 2000 to talk to those I'd befriended on the old Upnetwork Pokemon message board and Bulbagarden).

You can have audio-only calls, you can have calls with video, and you can just plain type like any other IM. Skype also keeps all your IM logs and allows you to send messages to people when they're offline that they'll receive once they sign back in... it basically does IMing better than anything else does. Voice calls are just an added plus for people like me that love using their voice because it's easier to multitask.

Hmmm. Wonder if I should install it - might have to give that a ponder. There are some folks here and on the umblr-of-T that I like the idea of IMing with, though again, it'd have to be when I'm feeling chatty. There's nothing more awkward than when you're having a conversation and they come back with just "LOL"... and nothing else. And then you're like "argh, I have to come up with something else to say" and then it just gets stressful. Maybe that's just me though! *shrugs*

Well other than mainly this forum, I don't use Facebook, Twitter, tumblr, or whatever either. But I have a YouTube channel, Vine account and a Google+ page

Fun fact: I never even had an iphone until the Iphone 4.

I still used the old flip-top phones with the buttons.

Fun fact, I never owned a cell phone until moving to Japan my second time in 2012. First time, I had a prepay phone I rarely ever used and had it just so I had some type of number registered to me. I got the iPhone 4 in 2012 because I figured it would be the easiest to use since I had an iPod...and my boss required me to have one so I'd always be in contact.

It seems we are all "technology dinosaurs" here. Given most of us were born in the 80's its not too surprising, when we were kids we didn't have all this new fancy technology the young ones currently have.

Since we didn't grow up with it we're not into the cyberspace the current modern day youth is. Sure, we all got involved in this stuff when we got older, but kids today will never know the joy of never having the internet, no cell phone, and playing 8-bit games on the NES.

The only social media site I use is facebook because I've got friends scattered throughout the world like Jester. My family is spread everywhere as well, so I like checking up on everyone. I'd misplaced my facebook password and finally found it in May of this year, so it's nice to be back in touch with folks because no one calls each other anymore. I'm bad about organizing phone numbers, so just as guilty. I actually prefer phone convos, but Skype also sounds fun and lest costly. Other than facebook, I get on this thing and that's it.

This may be why I can't get into things like Twitter or the constant texting stuff.

Even with taking care of business, I prefer to do things face-to-face, unless it can't be helped. I sometimes see my younger cousin (now 20) sitting with her friend, just texting away, even though they were seated right next to each other.

I do feel that we're all becoming a bit more disconnected as the technology continues advancing.

Man, you know its sad that most of us are only in our mid-late 20's and early 30's and we feel like "old timers" compared to today's modern youth.

I mean we're all still young ourselves! Yet we all feel so outdated to the modern technology. Crazy.

What a bunch of old f*cking fogeys.

I'm 33. Have a smart phone. Active on facebook, twitter account, long career in video games. Technology is rad. Suck it, old people. :P

Same age. I have a smartphone but only because my boss told me to. lol I'm also active on FB because I'm overseas. Probably wouldn't use it much if back home. Same with the smartphone.

I can totally see how some people legit need and/or can benefit from those things for work, but I'm pretty sure most people are just playing "Internet Celebrity".

Anybody you know ever brag about FB Likes in real-life conversation? What's the acceptable protocol for that situation? Do you hit them? I'm pretty sure it's allowed, in that context, to not only hit them, but actually damage them. If not, then it should be.

If anyone ever bragged to me about how many facebook "friends" they have in real life I'd probably punch them in the face and walk away