Considering leaving social networking altogether

[wanderer03]

Am I crazy in wanting to be rid of facebook and twitter? Am I the only one out there who's sick of it? I find AspiesCentral to be much more worth my while. I'm considering closing my facebook account. The only reason I really have it is to keep in touch with some friends in Arizona but I have their telephone numbers. There must be more to life than facebook. I grow weary of the vapid political postings, the memes, and the drama. Does anyone else out there feel a little too connected and need separation?

 

[Flinty]

Am I crazy in wanting to be rid of facebook and twitter? Am I the only one out there who's sick of it? I find AspiesCentral to be much more worth my while. I'm considering closing my facebook account. The only reason I really have it is to keep in touch with some friends in Arizona but I have their telephone numbers. There must be more to life than facebook. I grow weary of the vapid political postings, the memes, and the drama. Does anyone else out there feel a little too connected and need separation?

I would love to quit Facebook (and I'm not on Twitter in the first place) but must be there for sort-of-business reasons. In fact, I was off it for about four years, and I didn't miss it. That said, there was an additional reason to rejoin, a group of friends that are almost literally all over the world, so I shan't leave now.

 

[tree]

I have facebook, but it doesn't make me feel connected, really.
It does give me information about what my cousins are doing and
I can share that with my aunt on the phone because she doesn't have
internet unless she goes to the library.
I can show my sister stuff I have read about and she shows me
funny cat pictures.
It was my sister's idea for me to have a facebook account. She set it up.
I remember the first video I posted.....Kill All Your Friends, [MCR]. lol

Twitter must be really fulfilling, for some people.
Masses of strangers looking at what you say ?
Seeing what lots of people have to say, about important or utterly vapid topics?
I don't do twitter.

But definitely facebook does not make me feel like I am impinged upon
by other people. If anything it's more like-----they are just faces, quacking.

 

[Destination Unknown]

I never got sick of it because I never signed up for Facebook or Twitter. I feel it's just something else to spend time on.
Someday I will probably have to get Facebook because some groups that I am involved with are now keeping in touch by using Facebook instead of yahoo groups.
If I do get it, I won't have any Facebook "friends", and I know I'd feel uncomfortable about using it when everyone has all their friends and family signed up as friends.
I could sign my kid up as my only Facebook friend. He's popular with hundreds if not thousands of Facebook friends. He unfriends people on Facebook by the dozen because he doesn't even know who they are after a while.

 

[NTgirl4276]

I got rid of all of it this past December. I was previously very active on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, but I quit them all completely and suddenly. No regrets.

 

[Mia]

I had a facebook account from the very beginnings of it, and twitter when a close friend traveled to places where he could only occasionally be reached at, mainly to keep some connection with him during his travels in unstable countries.

Found it annoying after awhile with the feeds, with the recommendations, with the idea that facebook could harvest pictures and peoples ideas early on unless they were private. Was connected to several people who used it as a platform for drama and often fabrications about themselves or their lives. Much like an unreal universe that I wanted no part of. I've closed both accounts over the last few years.

Years back I did some work at Haltabuse and when I did research in finding people I used facebook and twitter, they were mines of information, especially twitter feed. I could find out huge amounts of information from people's twitter feeds. Especially if they used their real names, you found all their family members, where they were located. It was all there for anyone to find who knew how. Probably a good reason why I don't have either.

 

[Nisk]

I've been "on" Facebook since it started as well I never really got involved with Facebook until just recently.

 

[BigTimber]

Got rid of my Facebook years ago and haven't had a single regret. It never comes up in my day to day life and it probably saved some of my relationships. I can barely stand some of the political ramblings some of my family members make off the internet. I don't want sort through their soapbox posts, while I'm trying to entertain myself.

 

[wanderer03]

Thank you for all the input. For now, I simply logged off and removed the apps from my phone. That may be good enough. Good golly did I grow sick of the people parroting back what they heard on TV.

The memes truly are annoying. Several times I felt compelled to point out the flaws in the logic. I have an incredibly low tolerance for stupidity and do not suffer fools well.

 

[Progster]

I have Facebook, but it doesn't make me feel connected. I hardly ever use it, I just check it once every couple of days in case someone sent me a message. I'm thinking of leaving it too, because really there's no point in it. I agree that memes are annoying. Most of the time I don't get them and don't find them funny. I rarely look at other people's profiles, but sometimes look at music group pages.

 

[ancusmitis]

I have come close to deleting my facebook. Mostly I just don't log in. When I do, I still don't say anything any more. I think my last post was some time last year or something.

 

[wanderer03]

I deleted my twitter account today. I'll keep my facebook account for now, but I won't post anything. I've come to the conclusion that I am overall better with out it. Facebook wastes a lot of time and much of the posts are utterly boring.

 

[clg114]

I do not use facebook or any other social networking system. My kids and grandkids all use it and are always complaining about it. Somebody is always mad about something posted or has hurt feelings about something posted. I see facebook and the others as a breeding ground for misinformation. I prefer my information to be correct. However, I do enjoy Aspies Central. Most here are not grumpy, old men like me, but the level of understanding is great.

 

[Nitro]

I quit using Fazecrook altogether. I don't have any interest in Twitter. AspiesCentral is now my social media outlet.

 

[wanderer03]

I quit using Fazecrook altogether. I don't have any interest in Twitter. AspiesCentral is now my social media outlet.

And it's a whole lot better!

 

[King_Oni]

While I can understand people wanting to get away from the social media craze, I suppose part of it also is that it depends what you do with it. Facebook for me is more fun and keeping track of events in the area and not much of the actual social mingling I guess. If it wasn't for Facebook I'd probably miss out on a lot more concerts and parties in the area. And since most venues pretty much advertise exclusively through FB now... it's slightly impractical I suppose.

As for other social media networks; again, it's what you get out of it. They all have their use for me. I'm on Twitter, because that's apparently the easiest and best way to contact the service desk from my ISP... that probably gives one some perspective on how much social media are a thing. And then there's Tumblr & Instagram, which I mostly use to see images of things of interest (well, and considering Tumblr is becoming pretty much a porn outlet for niche interests/fetishes... and in my opinion better than plenty of even paid sites... yeah)

 

[wanderer03]

While I can understand people wanting to get away from the social media craze, I suppose part of it also is that it depends what you do with it. Facebook for me is more fun and keeping track of events in the area and not much of the actual social mingling I guess. If it wasn't for Facebook I'd probably miss out on a lot more concerts and parties in the area. And since most venues pretty much advertise exclusively through FB now... it's slightly impractical I suppose.

As for other social media networks; again, it's what you get out of it. They all have their use for me. I'm on Twitter, because that's apparently the easiest and best way to contact the service desk from my ISP... that probably gives one some perspective on how much social media are a thing. And then there's Tumblr & Instagram, which I mostly use to see images of things of interest (well, and considering Tumblr is becoming pretty much a porn outlet for niche interests/fetishes... and in my opinion better than plenty of even paid sites... yeah)

You raise some good points but its become am addiction to me. Best left alone.

 

[Nitro]

I can see that it could be of some use in some areas,but it has spiraled out of control as information is shared freely with whomever the powers at be deem necessary without your control. Go read their entire policy and give it some thought before you share anything there,by signing up,you give them permission to use anything you place there as if it was their own property. Only "liking" a part of it neatly places you in a category and offers to the entire planet what you are looking at or are interested in. My interests do not rely on using it in any manner,so it is not for me

 

[King_Oni]

You raise some good points but its become am addiction to me. Best left alone.

Fair point... if you have an urge compulsively check them, you might be better to take a step back. But that goes with many things and not just social networks, heh

I can see that it could be of some use in some areas,but it has spiraled out of control as information is shared freely with whomever the powers at be deem necessary without your control. Go read their entire policy and give it some thought before you share anything there,by signing up,you give them permission to use anything you place there as if it was their own property. Only "liking" a part of it neatly places you in a category and offers to the entire planet what you are looking at or are interested in. My interests do not rely on using it in any manner,so it is not for me

Well, you could at times like some really different things. Just to give them the wrong impression, lol.

If I have to be judged on my likes and profiled accordingly, I'm quite sure that at least someone looking over that collection would be like "the most consistent thing about this person is that he tries to be as inconsistent as he/she can in terms of being profiled".

It's much like buying the same soda at the store at noon every day... eventually people will know you'll be in at noon for your soda. Sometimes I'd like to buy 3, so I don't have to come in the next day... and drink 2 soda's on a break. ANd sometimes I come in and buy a different brand. But then again... I'm the worst for habits in that I rarely keep to one thing for a long time.

 

[Nitro]

Well, you could at times like some really different things. Just to give them the wrong impression, lol.

If I have to be judged on my likes and profiled accordingly, I'm quite sure that at least someone looking over that collection would be like "the most consistent thing about this person is that he tries to be as inconsistent as he/she can in terms of being profiled".

It's much like buying the same soda at the store at noon every day... eventually people will know you'll be in at noon for your soda. Sometimes I'd like to buy 3, so I don't have to come in the next day... and drink 2 soda's on a break. ANd sometimes I come in and buy a different brand. But then again... I'm the worst for habits in that I rarely keep to one thing for a long time.

Yeah,maybe I am just being paranoid for nothing and you have a point,but I also have my own concerns about big brother. It is bad enough they recorded and monitored our cell phones in the USA as a part of the so called Patriot Act. They claimed they quit doing it,but can you really trust a government with a track record of deception?

Go thru the pictorial presentations for more details...I really don't want the CIA funding startup companies who engineer software for data mining social networking sites
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/19/in-q-tel-cia-venture-fund-business-washington-cia.html