I lasted about two weeks on Twitter, in 2010; the format just didn't work for me. I looked at Bluesky but it's basically Twitter-as-was, which just didn't work. Microblogging and me do not go well.
I still have facebook because so many IRL people are only on facebook, and it's a way for me to have a way to contact various relatives and people whose emails addresses I don't have or it's not up to date. I guess I have good facebook-hygiene or whatever because I never understood all the complaint about algorithm and seeing things, because aren't you just seeing things that people you follow are posting? It's not like it's injecting various other stuff in there. So I guess if you have a really wide facebook crowd, you'll see too much? Never happened with me. I have a hard enough time getting facebook to show me things from people I actually do want to see everything they post, so I basically go to facebok, use the search to bring up the last few people I searched for, read back their latest posts, and get out.
I am on instagram only because my current-generation relatives -- for reasons unknownst to me but knownst to them -- only post their kid pictures as instagram stories, so if I don't check instagram once a day, I won't see the kid pictures. I do nothing else on there; instagram makes no intuitive sense to me because everything has to be an image, and to this day I haven't figured out how to meaningfully search it.
I never saw the point of tiktok since I'm not a video person, and the only tiktoker I know about by name (B Dylan Hollis) also posts on youtube, and youtube lets me do RSS feeds, so I'm set on that.
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I still have facebook because so many IRL people are only on facebook, and it's a way for me to have a way to contact various relatives and people whose emails addresses I don't have or it's not up to date. I guess I have good facebook-hygiene or whatever because I never understood all the complaint about algorithm and seeing things, because aren't you just seeing things that people you follow are posting? It's not like it's injecting various other stuff in there. So I guess if you have a really wide facebook crowd, you'll see too much? Never happened with me. I have a hard enough time getting facebook to show me things from people I actually do want to see everything they post, so I basically go to facebok, use the search to bring up the last few people I searched for, read back their latest posts, and get out.
I am on instagram only because my current-generation relatives -- for reasons unknownst to me but knownst to them -- only post their kid pictures as instagram stories, so if I don't check instagram once a day, I won't see the kid pictures. I do nothing else on there; instagram makes no intuitive sense to me because everything has to be an image, and to this day I haven't figured out how to meaningfully search it.
I never saw the point of tiktok since I'm not a video person, and the only tiktoker I know about by name (B Dylan Hollis) also posts on youtube, and youtube lets me do RSS feeds, so I'm set on that.