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It has been quiet in social media lately. Not only because of the holidays, I guess. It seems to me people are tired of sharing on Twitter and Facebook. Not to mention on Google+. Are we back to basics: the oldfashion real face to face meet-ups? Online social media seem to be settling as nice additions for the real 3D thing.
What's your opinion?
 
To me, social media like Facebook is useful for friends and family that are out of state and too far away to go visit often. I would still rather meet up with a friend for lunch etc...
 
I don't know. :confused:

Personally, I like actual human contact--my best friend and I talk almost every day, and I mean for 1-1/2 to 2 hours at a whack! (We're currently living in different states.) Ditto with my husband.

But I like sharing things online, too. Not in the "I MUST post every aspect of my daily life on facebook!" sort of way (I don't do fb), but a tweet here and there, a blog post, e-mails, forums.

In general, I think the newness of social media is starting to wear off. It's no longer a novelty, it's more like a phone or TV--just part of our lives we take for granted, knowing it's there when we want it.
 
When I started my fb a/c 18 months ago (give or take) my tendency to postwhore came to the fore (I'm a poet, but didn't know it!) and I was posting all sorts of things, but not much of what I was doing myself. I quickly grew sick of all the stuff in my news feed from pages I'd 'liked' cluttering up my news feed and stopped their postings appearing in it. I also found a number of my friends from years back were intolerant of my occasional political postings (I told a few of 'em to unfriend me if they didn't like it) and now use it mainly only to keep in contact with musicians I know, and keep up with what gigs are coming up...
 
Perhaps because the novelty of sharing and being social on the internet has worn off for many people. Now they're only sharing things they think might be worthwhile, rather than just sharing for the sake of sharing, like what time they're going to bed or tweeting what they're having for breakfast.
 
I use Facebook mainly for large group chats where texting would be difficult. I hardly ever post a status, and can't remember the last time I wrote on a wall.

Its just lost its appeal to me, and I refuse to tweet :cool:
 
I have FB but hardly ever actually post anything, I mostly have it so I can see the pictures my son posts. I am only 'friends' with my immediate family and 2 or 3 real friends. I have a lot of people blocked now because they just post crap all day long. I suppose I really should just un-friend them all.
I do talk to myself on Twitter though, most of my family is there too. They read it but don't tweet often, they send me texts or emails when they see what I've tweeted. Silly family.
I also use Instagram (as does everyone but my son!) and link between there and Twitter.
I've always hated FB, I do like Twitter. If I have anything earth-shattering to share I send a text or email, or actually make an old fashioned phone call!!!
 
It might have something to do with Facebook only showing people who you have recently contacted(liked or commented on status etc) ?
 
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Clementine_3 said:
I have FB but hardly ever actually post anything, I mostly have it so I can see the pictures my son posts. I am only 'friends' with my immediate family and 2 or 3 real friends. I have a lot of people blocked now because they just post crap all day long. I suppose I really should just un-friend them all.
I do talk to myself on Twitter though, most of my family is there too. They read it but don't tweet often, they send me texts or emails when they see what I've tweeted. Silly family.
I also use Instagram (as does everyone but my son!) and link between there and Twitter.
I've always hated FB, I do like Twitter. If I have anything earth-shattering to share I send a text or email, or actually make an old fashioned phone call!!!
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Same here. I've only friended Vulcan and kid. I have pages of pests, most of whom I do know, and I ain't friending them. If they have sent any messages, I wouldn't know. I have a throwaway Yahoo addy linked to social media, and have trained it that everything is spam. If there is a message box on FB, I've never looked at it.
Any social site gets that throwaway addy, or a throwaway Google one. Thunderbird has some very good mail filters.
 
Kaat72 said:
It has been quiet in social media lately. Not only because of the holidays, I guess. It seems to me people are tired of sharing on Twitter and Facebook. Not to mention on Google+. Are we back to basics: the oldfashion real face to face meet-ups? Online social media seem to be settling as nice additions for the real 3D thing.
What's your opinion?
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I was never a very social person. I started a website a while ago and had to "do" the social media thing in order to gain traffic, but I didn't do it for very long. Now I don't use any of them. Up until about eight years ago I still used a land line, because I despised any new form of communication. I guess you could say I'm very old fashioned.

Another aspect of my life that has made me such an introvert is my handicaps; if you have something wrong with you then people treat you differently. It is a cold, self-absorbed age we live in, so this isn't a surprise, but it did turn me off to people and anything social (even online).

I'm sure I'm not the only one.
 
I deactivated my Facebook because of the such low amount of interaction I had with my "Friends" and family. Family that I have only seen once in my 18 years of living think they know me and can call me "family" with their absence. I noticed every time I logged into facebook I had hopes of interacting with my "friends" but always was disappointed. I know it is better for my health to just stop it, deactivate it.

Spending more time here on the forums :) Interaction is infinite higher than Facebook.
 
Yep, I agree—Facebook is becoming annoying as well. I had all my relatives wanting to "friend" me, but none of them ever respond to my posts or comments. And they wonder why I never come to any of their family gatherings.
 
With FB I'm a social butteryfly kinda like around here. I don't have a twitter account and am only currently getting around to G+ but thats mostly to support our page.
 
I quit FB because people would post negative things I'd rather not know about--like breakups and other personal things.

I quit G+ because there was too much profanity, which is surprising because in real life I swear like a sailor.

I quit Twitter because it was pointless.
 
Goodspike said:
I quit FB because people would post negative things I'd rather not know about--like breakups and other personal things.

I quit G+ because there was too much profanity, which is surprising because in real life I swear like a sailor.

I quit Twitter because it was pointless.
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Wow, so you use MySpace?

I LOVE Google Plus. Not Bias though.
 
Kaat72 said:
It has been quiet in social media lately. Not only because of the holidays, I guess. It seems to me people are tired of sharing on Twitter and Facebook. Not to mention on Google+. Are we back to basics: the oldfashion real face to face meet-ups? Online social media seem to be settling as nice additions for the real 3D thing.
What's your opinion?
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One can only hope.
 
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