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Post by Squad 51 on May 11, 2020 10:08:18 GMT -5
I used Skype and still use WhatsApp as if only to find out more with my friends. I know that WhatsApp belongs to Facebook and the rest will remain out of my life.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 11, 2020 10:16:05 GMT -5
I do have a Facebook and an Instagram account, but the Facebook is to keep in touch with friends from school and my relatives who live in other parts of country, in addition to my pen pals. My Instagram is private and it's mostly pictures of flowers or meals I've cooked, I don't do selfies. I use Facebook messenger to talk with my brother in Virginia and my English pen pal in Cornwall, but I rarely actually post anything on Facebook. I don't do Twitter since it's a whole lot of junk, all Coronavirus all the time and conspiracy theories plus there's a lot of bullies and flaming if one posts something people don't like. My brother gets bullied on Twitter and he doesn't understand that people on Twitter are not friends and that he shouldn't post everything online. He got bullied because he's twenty five and lives with Mom and I and doesn't have a job nor attend college, he admitted this and people were bullying him for being a neckbeard. He has autism and may not be able to hold down or job or go to college, I tell him to get rid of his account but he's hooked.
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Post by Tim on May 11, 2020 11:45:54 GMT -5
There is this show on, called Web Of Lies, that deals with this kind of stuff (online predators, cyber-bullying, and such). One episode dealt with the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, who was driven to suicide by cyber-bullying.
Shows the danger that this can cause.
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Post by Trinity on May 12, 2020 20:29:33 GMT -5
Get a load of this glowing article advocating outsourcing written by the actual founder and CEO of Zoom. My fears of what this new "work from home" reality could mean for American jobs aren't unfounded at all! I wonder how many people are going to wake up in 2021 and find out that their job has been shipped off to some underpaid worker bee in India because COVID-19 taught their boss that their job could be done remotely? Heard all about Zoom. I hope, this doesn't push people further into using social media and interacting online. It was bad enough before, people live and breath social media, now with e COVID, it might push more people into this bubble world. I don't bother with Twitter. I actually had a Facebook, but I got rid of mine years ago. A waste of time. I've never used any of those services, and I never will. I absolutely HATE the way they've taken over the internet, invaded people's privacy, spread toxic fake news, and furthered the corporatization of the internet. I'd love to see Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram drop dead. Me too, I would not cry at all if they all drop dead.
And can be so toxic, one benefit of message boards over social media any day, is message boards have admins to get rid of trolls and moderate. Which is impossible on social media, since it's so big, unless of course you block the haters, or report them. But it is just so much more toxic with fake news, and people will just create a new account and troll somewhere else. At least on message boards, you can feel safe in your own little community. If that makes sense.
I used Skype and still use WhatsApp as if only to find out more with my friends. I know that WhatsApp belongs to Facebook and the rest will remain out of my life. Same here, those are the two I use the most to keep in touch with friends than social media.
So easy to use WhatsApp with wifi to keep in touch with some of my dear friends, and send stuff to them verses doing that on social media. We've even set up our own group chat thread, so we can communicate and share stuff and have conversations instead of using any social media, so it's just between us.
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Post by Tim on May 12, 2020 23:42:57 GMT -5
Never heard of WhatsApp.
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Post by Squad 51 on May 13, 2020 9:46:29 GMT -5
That came naturally with WhatsApp. Some friends already used it and you were forced too with time. So it worked for me at least.
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Post by Tim on May 13, 2020 11:43:54 GMT -5
Ah, I see.
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Post by Katie on Feb 17, 2021 22:41:40 GMT -5
That is the problem with social media, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. More reasons to stay away from social media - for good. But if you're a celeb, you obviously have no choice. Yeah, exactly. The reason I don't have one, but I'd rather browse other profiles and read, than have my own. No need to get invested in all the twitter or trolling wars that seem to be all I see on social media. Yeah, sometimes celebs have no choice but use it to promote their work. If I was famous, I'd be like Luke Perry (smart man to never have one until he passed), Robert Pattison, Harrison Ford or Calista Flockhart. Just a few I know who don't have any as far I can tell. Seems to be more the older ones who don't, compared to the ones 30s or younger.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Feb 18, 2021 6:02:06 GMT -5
It's also why I don't have social media either Katie although I have read some famous people's profiles like you then.
The comments I see on YouTube when people talk about Coronavirus and the nasty replies they say to people do baffle me why those folks aren't pulled up on that and given warning's on what they say and threatening's of their accounts be removed if they continue obviously hence why I don't say anything wanting to avoid that toxicity.
Even Captain Sir Tom Moore who raised 33 million for the NHS got trolled because his family supposedly went on holiday to Barbados December time and because his daughter and granddaughter were allowed to be by his bedside when he was in hospital with COVID 19.
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 18, 2021 10:00:27 GMT -5
Yeah, that's my opinion as well. I check some twitter profiles from time to time but not that much. If only I'm interested in.
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Post by Tim on Feb 18, 2021 12:25:02 GMT -5
Social Media has its ups and downs. Depend on how it's used.
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Post by Astral Echo on Feb 18, 2021 14:08:13 GMT -5
Social media is a massive part of my job so I definitely see both sides. It can be a really great tool, you just have to develop a thick skin because people lose their inhibitions when communicating through a screen. Even good people forget their words have consquences.
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 18, 2021 15:34:41 GMT -5
And you can hide behind nicknames, never using your real name. Makes it harder to get anyone. Yet the celebs and companies are in the open with their real names. *sighs*
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Post by Tim on Feb 18, 2021 18:37:14 GMT -5
As I said, just be careful.
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Post by DC Fanatic on Mar 21, 2021 21:43:35 GMT -5
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