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

[CyberCubed]

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.

[Prowler]

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.

[Leo656]

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.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

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.

[plastroncafe]

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.

[CyberCubed]

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.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Leo656

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.

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.

[Leo656]

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.

[CyberCubed]

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?

[Jester]

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.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Yeah I can understand why teens use twitter and social networking, honestly as a teen what else do you have to do?

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".

[snake]

Originally Posted by Leo656

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.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by Jester

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.

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.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by snake

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

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

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

[Machias Banshee]

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.

[ssjup81]

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.

[Metalwolf]

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.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

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

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

[pandaderek]

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.

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

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

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