Social media: how many here actively use it?

Commander Grausam · 2024-11-27T07:47:13+00:00

Hello. It's been a while since I posted. I imagine most people here are more interested in forums than social media. I've personally given it up recently a...

Megaloschemos

I use Facebook so that people who met or know me can get a hold of me, snapchat for small talk like texting, discord for the good servers, 4chan for boredom amusement, and the PS app for gaming on my PS4, along with live streaming apps because I like that scene.

EGG

Fairly active. I keep deleting my social media accounts whenever I feel severely paranoid or depressed about certain things though. It just happens. I had Instagram deleted for almost 2 years in middle school and it's because I was really paranoid over this online dude I met in 2018 (It was related to the dumb Russian challenge "Blue Whale")

kokikola

I use instagram for my personal account I guess and browse a lot of imageboards and forums. Speaking of which, apparently I joined here a year ago, woo!

kurisu

I used to use pretty much the whole pack (instagram, twitter, reddit, discord, 4chan... even tiktok before quarantine). In the last few years I've realized how bad they are for me and my attention, so I just started slowly getting myself off of those platforms.

I slowly got rid of twitter, then 4chan, then reddit, and finally, almost a month ago, after having it strictly time limited on my phone, I uninstalled instagram. I'm not gonna lie, I sometimes miss instagram just because many friends are on there, and they used to send me a bunch of good reels, but my best friend quit a week before me, so that was a great help. I'm still on discord and will explain the situation later in this post.

Even though I just got rid of instagram, it's been months (about half a year) since I quit the rest, and my god, MY GOD the difference is night and day.

Twitter, especially, was a pain in the ass but I thought it was worth my time to find interesting stuff on there (tech news, fonts, graphic design...). It's not as attention-grabbing as reels/short-form video content, so I thought it's not that bad...? WRONG! Ho-ly! Getting rid of all the ragebait, all the "le AI/crypto/X good/bad" absurd debates, the musk ----riders... I feel so damn free! And I've realized that I'm "missing out" on so many news that I've honestly never cared about!

4chan is an obvious bad influence, though talking on /g/ has given me a couple of blessings when it comes to knowing some good brands/product lines/distros. It was nice to get rid of that site too.

Reddit, well... I've blocked the site on my computer, but I sometimes have to unblock it to follow some guides, read some discussions about a product I was thinking of buying, etc. A huge timewaster if you scroll through the feed, but let's be real, the site can be quite useful for some searches on the internet, especially now that all these AI slop websites are taking over the SEO on almost every search engine.

And about Discord, well... I don't hang out in big/public servers, never did. I do hang out in some smaller servers, especially one of them, and I'm intending to leave before summer. Sure, I know the people on there, we joke around, we chat, we have fun, but to be honest, the topic of the server doesn't interest me at all anymore, and because Discord is Discord, the server's average state of mind is... kinda unhealthy. I'm not going to elaborate too much, but let's just say that I get some not-so-sane DMs from time to time, with no warnings. I cannot simply leave discord because all my IRL friends are on there too, but I guess it's time for me to just leave those unhealthy circles.

My process of getting rid of everything took (is taking) a long while, between restricting my screentime, leaving the platforms, and starting to focus more in my life... It's taken a year and a half so far! It's a long journey, but I'm so happy with my progress and my current point in life.

kyga

kurisu Just wait until you realize none of it matters and that you're not missing out on anything! The way I see it is, there will always be people around saying and doing things, new things happening, but at the end of the day it's just the same old thing over and over again. People don't change. They're here today and they'll still be here tomorrow; none of what they have to say is that important anyway (especially the rage baiters). But good luck on your journey! 😃

I think FOMO runs the world. People want to keep up with the latest events and technology, but in reality we're pretty simple and our needs are very few. We keep creating new things that we "need"; you need a smartphone; you need a facebook account... but why? Social media and consumer technology is just something to keep us entertained until we eventually die. Personally, I think it's better to just find something actually meaningful and work on that.

LOWnHA

kurisu 4chan is an obvious bad influence, though talking on /g/ has given me a couple of blessings when it comes to knowing some good brands/product lines/distros. It was nice to get rid of that site too.

/g/ is an absolute wasteland now. It's as if there was an exodus of /v/ users. Of course, it's always been garbage. But it has reached yet another new low. On another note, the April Fool's event was somewhat enjoyable.

kurisu

kyga Yeah, this is pretty much what I learned during this time, I don't miss anything at all! I was in a constant state of checking everything, nowadays I practically don't even touch most of these platforms 😃

If anyone reading this thread is questioning whether they should quit or not, try living 14 days without any of those platforms and then try using them, while also evaluating whether a session of scrolling thru (platform) was worth it or not. This is how I ended up quitting most of these

kyga

kurisu Actually, two weeks is a good length of time to give something up. The first week, you go through all of the withdrawal symptoms (seriously, I think social media is an actual drug) and the second week you start to finally lose interest.

Sailwing It was different back then, everyone from school was on AIM, everything had a dedicated forum, and if you really needed something you could go on IRC. Having everything "all in one place" just makes everything so boring.

Now you have like three options for everything:

Info: Reddit
Chat: Facebook/Instagram, (Discord?)
Shopping: Amazon

That's it. Apparently you don't need anything else in life. Just follow the new thing, everybody else is doing it. 😒
The funny thing is AIM is still around though the NINA server.

Sailwing

Commander Grausam

I have a Facebook that I've had since high school, though I rarely use it to post photos/statuses anymore. I mainly use it to keep up to date with a few hobby/interest groups and lowball boomers on Marketplace. Other than that I stick to Discord, cytube, and forum sites.

Social media was fun back in the 2000s/early 2010s when it was basically an extension of shooting the shit with your friends irl, with the added bonus of being able to share photos. That kind of community is all but completely gone on the mainstay sites (Facebook, Twitter, Insta etc.). I think that, much like in real life, a community for all ends its life as a community for none. You let anyone with any motives or intentions in, eventually you spend way more time putting out fires and wading through drama than you do actually building friendships and community. When an internet community has a clear focus, a clearly defined target audience, and well-established rules, it actually feels and acts like a community. Social media feels like one big PVP zone.

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