No more social networking

[JohnChops]

How many of you younger guys, like myself, got out of that social network ****. I deleted my instagram, facebook, and snapchat the other day and I feel a whole lot better already, more productive. Also that crap just seems to put you down most of the time, nothing really good comes from it unless you are connecting with an old buddy. Anyone else boycotting social netTrash?

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

I used to be a junkie on all that 'social' media. Hours on end because I didn't have a life. Then I slowly started going on for a less amount of time and gradually would go on less sessions than before. Then I pretty much stopped using it. My sister started to talk about Twitter and I made one. Then I ended up deleting it, my facebook, instagram, and that was it. I kept Snapchat, but I stopped using it about 2 weeks after I installed it in the first place. I deleted that too. I have no social media. Perfect. If people want to talk to me, they will do it face to face. And i don't feel like I am getting stalked either.

I would advise everyone to delete ALL of their social media (except Skype if you have one because it is good to see far away relatives who live in foreign countries every once in a while without having to pay for a million dollar plane ticket).

 

[MillionBillionaire]

Social media is for women so they can post selfies for all their beta orbiters.. and if they's a babys mama they post pics of them too... OMG I LOVE THAT SELFIE WHERE YOU ARE STICKING YOUR BUTT OUT! SOOO CUTE!

 

[Skyline]

I have a Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and I use twitter for business. I am currently active on Facebook when I'm on the toilet and use Snapchat when I get a snapchat. I use Instagram to look at sl*tty girls and models when I feel like looking at something nice. I rarely even use twitter even if its for business as well... Basically, I have them to "have them" at this point.

 

[The411]

How many of you younger guys, like myself, got out of that social network ****. I deleted my instagram, facebook, and snapchat the other day and I feel a whole lot better already, more productive. Also that crap just seems to put you down most of the time, nothing really good comes from it unless you are connecting with an old buddy. Anyone else boycotting social netTrash?

I haven't been on Flakebook in over two years now. Deleted it. Everyone I knew on there I had thier numbers anyway and never bothered much with it and barely put up pictures. Just never got into it. The times I did check it out it was people AWing left and right. Started to make me wonder if these people were held as infants.

And the thirst on FB is REAL. I mean God damn the amount of dudes that would "like" chicks pictures and every thing they said for attention and seeing chicks and dudes trying to out "popular" each other was embarrassing. It's a good insight to how insecure and narcissistic people can be. Seeing that on peoples pages I know I started feeling bad for them. Then I got bored with the whole thing took whatever pictures I had on there down and just deleted it as it was a waste of time.

A friend of mine asked me yesterday if I was on Facialbook. I was like dude I haven't been on there in a loooong time and left it at that.


True story. Another dude I've known for a long time was showing me the other day all these chicks who are his "friends". The dude and the chicks don't even know each other from a can of paint yet this dude was convinced they were his "friends". I'm like dude. Do you even know these people? He said no but they're my friends. And I'm thinking: Uh ok.

I didn't even bother trying to say anything as the dude was married for years and got divorced a year ago so he's out of the loop and is completely deluding himself. I was just looking at him while he was insisting to me and trying to show me all these chicks who are his "friends" and I'm thinking: "Dude have you lost your fvcking mind??" It's not even worth trying to reason or use basic common sense with some people.

 

[Heisenberg]

and I use twitter for business.

You're 18. What business could you possibly have? Do you tweet about your part time job at the GAP?

Just ribbing. I respect anyone with enough ambition to pursue any kind of "business" while still in their teens.

A word of advice, though (from someone who shouldn't feel like an old-timer but can't help it when near-30 and writing to an 18 year-old on the internet)... don't forget to be a kid! The long hours and responsibilities that go along with entrepreneurship will be waiting for you in adulthood. For now, I hope you are finding the time to get drunk and bang lots of random women. As Alan Arkin said in Little Miss Sunshine, "You should be gettin' that young stuff!"

 

[Boxer00]

Most people I know use it when they need a quick attenton fix.

 

[logicallefty]

LinkedIn is the only one I have now. Got rid of Crackbook and never had any others other than for investigations when I was a cyber detective. I don't use LinkedIn much but I keep it to allow an online presence for folks to hunt me down.

 

[GS750]

I dont have any of them...unless you count match.com as social media. But my match subscription ends tomorrow and I've cancelled. The whole facebook thing...christ its attention wh0ring at its finest. I've got no interest in it.

 

[El Payaso]

I deleted everything except Twitter because I use it to follow some sports and hobbies of mine.

 

[EvilSpirit22]

I deleted twitter 2 years back, facebook deactivated since the day I broke up with my ex that makes it more than 3 months, I was never on instagram or any other ****. I only use whatsapp and that too only to text my family and friends.

I had more time to use for more productive work like losing weight, planning my meals, playing guitar, studying for my exams and nailing them perfectly and to even go out by myself and enjoy some ME time.

 

[JohnnyStorm]

It's a conflict of interest for me, I mainly use Facebook as a newshub, and as I go to a lot of gigs, I can find out the stage times from the FB event pages.

But when you're on there, you end up looking at a lot of crap that comes up and get drawn into that whole status updating crap.

When I left, I felt so out of the loop with regard to being invited to events etc. Which probably says more about my friends than anything else