Like it or loathe it social media is here to stay and will get even more powerful. But when you read about youngsters committing suicide after viewing nasty stuff on Instagram etc, you do think maybe it's more dangerous than we first thought ? We got by okay long before Twitter and Facebook, so my question is : could you live without social media ?
Remember when you'd meet your mates at the weekend to go to the pubs in the city centre ? There wasn't none of social media, we just stated a time and that was it.I only use Farcebook, but it's to keep in touch with my kids and grandkids and also keep up with friends I had on the Isle of Wight. I don't have the internet on my phone, (at least, I don't think so!). When I go out, even for a week-end away, my laptops are shut down and left at home. Why do I need the internet when I'm out? Life isn't that important that I need to know what people are having for breakfast, dinner and tea! I could quite happily do without Farcebook, but the kids would never phone for a chat! Like most kids these days! I phoned my mam for a chat two or three times every week when she was alive. Even if only for 5 minutes, but it was a great way to keep in touch. Oh, and I'm the same with texting as I am with Farcebook. I text maybe 8 or 9 times a month! And to me, that's excessive! I HATE texting!
Yep and I do live without it.Like it or loathe it social media is here to stay and will get even more powerful. But when you read about youngsters committing suicide after viewing nasty stuff on Instagram etc, you do think maybe it's more dangerous than we first thought ? We got by okay long before Twitter and Facebook, so my question is : could you live without social media ?
thats daft isn’t it?Annoying though, because some groups only use Facebook to communicate, such as one of my daughter's drama groups.
We miss all sorts of events because I won't use Facebook.
Yep and I do live without it.
Am on FB, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, but never use any of them.
Only things I use are a WhatsApp group and Messenger, but that is because I have to and have no choice.
Yeah, but I mean the real stuff, not the kind of garbage frequented by a bunch of sad losers.I hate to break it to you, but the Sky Blues Talk website, to which you are a very regular contributor, is a form of social media.
Lots do it. They just assume you are all on the platform.thats daft isn’t it?
On the key point I am not belittling the issues but Ozzy Osborne was once subject of a legal action on the grounds the lyrics to Suicide Solution encouraged a fan to take his own life
"did you not see it on Facebook?"Annoying though, because some groups only use Facebook to communicate, such as one of my daughter's drama groups.
We miss all sorts of events because I won't use Facebook.
I always get confused. That's the gay one, right? And Tinder is for normal people?"did you not see it on Facebook?"
"Sorry, im only on Grindr"
Sign up to them both and find out.I always get confused. That's the gay one, right? And Tinder is for normal people?
But you still haven't told me which one you're on.Sign up to them both and find out.
Remember when you'd meet your mates at the weekend to go to the pubs in the city centre ? There wasn't none of social media, we just stated a time and that was it.
Yeah, I do miss out on an awful lot of what is going in in people's lives, but when I WAS on it I used to hate all the banality of it all.
Still much prefer to be off and away from it and have now turned off all notifications, so I receive nothing from FB at all.
I'm on Facebook but only go on it about once a week for maybe 15 minutes.
It's the only place I can find out what my daughters are doing.
So Gay people aren't Normal now then?I always get confused. That's the gay one, right? And Tinder is for normal people?
You just walked into a minefield there Otis! :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:I always get confused. That's the gay one, right? And Tinder is for normal people?
They sell them in my local charity shop. One recently was on sale for £20.00 and got told it sold when I went in a few days later.Ahhhh! Remember the days before social media? Amiga 500. My first computer...……
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So Gay people aren't Normal now then?
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