Obviously motivated by the Twitter article. Probably dumb to have two Twitter topics on the same day. Nevertheless, I am most curious as to what TPBers do.
Q1:. Do you tweet? If so, how often?
Q2: Do you Facebook? If so, how often?
Q3: Any other Social Media apps? If so, which ones, and how often?
Me? Q1: Not even once. Never ever will.
Q2: ? Q2: Not even once. Never ever will.
Q3: None whatsoever. I don’t even know what’s out there.
1. No tweetering for me.
2. Never Facebooked and am not going to start.
3. I have a LinkedIn account that I use to keep track of and stay in touch with work related folks. I don’t post anything there.
Thanks for getting things started.
I forget about Linkedin. I get “invites” from time to time, but I ignore them. From their website;
“Our mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. ”
So, I’m genuinely interested. Does it make you “more productive and successful. “?
A brief answer is fine, if you have the time.
This is the closest i get to social media, and the only place i comment.
The wife found someone to hire via linkdin once. She has a linkdin account as it is mandatory at her work. That is our entire social networking exposure.
No social media. No Twitter / Facebook / etc.
Long time ago I got a LinkedIn account. What a fucking mistake – there’s no way to stop them from sending you shit like: Joe FuckFace has add six new members – he’s waiting for you to reply.
I’ve heard LinkedIn has never made a dime of profit.
Same for me except I post to LinkedIn (work related only, I mean ONLY)
TBP has a twitter account. It has 711 followers. It has been stuck around that number for months because I rarely tweet. I do follow a bunch of people I respect. I’m following 384 people. It does provide me with good quotes, funny pictures, and links to interesting articles that I use on TBP. I have no idea how some people have tens of thousands of followers.
No Facebook
No other social media
I do not and never will have a Twitter or other social media account. Full disclosure: I got tricked into signing up fort Facebook. Hardly look at it.
No
No personally. Yes for business.
No
This place is as close as I personally get to social media. It’s enough.
If TBP is considered social media, yes. Otherwise, nope.
No, but I closed my twatter account last spring. I never tweeted, it was just for news feeds.
No, I closed my FB account I had last spring, closed both of them the same day.
I do have a Gab account, although I am rarely on it. I would like to see Gab catch on as an alternative if they can keep it free from censorship.
1. I don’t do Twitter
2. I don’t do Facebook
3. I am listed on Linkedin because it’s useful to my business, but I have only posted the minimum information about myself and my company. I use it mostly to do a little preliminary research on a new contact or company that I will be working with.
This of course comes from someone that still uses old hard-wired Western Electric telephones at home and has thousands of vacuum tubes…
Steve C.
Spring, Texas
EU is gonna BAN vacuum tubes in 2019.
Maybe a biz opportunity for ya? Banned or not, there will still be a market. Black Market. Build a web site. You could make millions. (Gimme 10% for the intellectual property rights.)
Turns out it was a hoax.
I did like the reference to “…Switzerland’s EU commissioner on technical affairs, Helmut Ampless…” though.
I was afraid they’d be coming after my percolator coffee pots next…
Steve C.
Spring, Texas
Thanks for posting that link about vacuum tubes Stucky.
I thought Steve was referring to politicians.
Q1: Couple of years ago. Twatted for about a month then got bored with it, never looked back
Q2: ? Q2: Not even once. Never ever will.
Q3: None whatsoever. I don’t even know what’s out there.
No
No
Gab and LinkedIn but never use them.
1.No Twit, and no regrets.
2. Had FB, dropped it 3 years ago. Hate, for many reasons.
3. No others, except here.
I get spam emails from contacts who ate on LinkedIn all the time, asking me to connect via that platform. Deleted promptly.
Q1. Never.
Q2. Yes, mostly to keep track of family and friends. Post in your face anti liberal cartoons and articles.
Q3. Follow a child’s (chef) postings, never post. Like Dutchman, I too had a LinkedIn account when I sold my business to support associates, past employees and contractors. They drowned you in bs so I unjoined and sent every thing to spam. Shit is still showing up in spam.
Same as Stuck – except Q3 – I do know about Instachat and Snapagram (but I don’t partake personally)
Sounds like the guy who said he never inhaled….
Speaking of that – I will say this – like I did with my own kids: “If I tell you I didn’t, then you will think I don’t understand. If I tell you I did, then you might think you can try it too. DON’T TAKE DRUGS!!!”
Some things are timeless and common. This was like my own Mom dropping me off at the Ted Nugent concert:
No to everything except Linked In – and that’s only because I’d mistakenly believed that I’d actually been personally invited by someone who I felt compelled to accommodate.
If I’d started a Twitter account it would look like this one (3 tweets the first day and none evermore): https://mobile.twitter.com/westerberg59?lang=en
Don’t Tweet, don’t Facebook. Lost my phone 6 months ago and haven’t had it replaced. Oh, and it was a flip phone by the way, Free at last, free at last, free at last. John
Facebook – no
Twitter – yes
Linkedin – yes, but only to show the assholes in my life that I am still around to give them pain.
I opened up a twitter account years ago and have only posted once?. It was a question to the Turkish female who somehow hijacked my account. Her name is Merve. A coquettish young woman. So now I get Turkish tweets in my gmail inbox. It bewilders me…I changed my password and it continues. So I have an account but have only used once or twice, in the last two years. It remains very active still today.
Merve:
Beautiful Girl, usually with turkish origins. Merve is lovely and the nicest girl ever but can be a hot chick too. Has the hottest lips and angelic smile and her body is damn fine.
Merve is a feminine Turkish given name of Arabic origin. It has two meanings:
1. Pebble
2. One of the two sacred hills in Mecca, Saudi Arabia between which Muslims travel back and forth seven times as part of the ritual pilgrimages. Merve is mentioned in sura of Bakara,verse 158.
FB yes. Most of my friends are family and ex coworkers whom I love dearly. I would be nothing without their help and loyalty. It brings me a type of joy to see how they continue to thrive with family and jobs. And my fishing buddies love to share our lying stories about the big fish we catch. In my days of retirement and a kind of isolation; it helps me feel connected.
Linkin – I made a profile after I retired (due to medical issues). I have not looked at it in years and it adds nothing to my life. Except to say, I am here.
I participate in the website 360tuna. About fishing. I believe my debate and contributions have led to a rethinking of recreational fishing and the commercial fishing industry. The Magnuson Stevens act was a gift to big business that usurped what belongs to the citizens of the USA. Graft, fiat, corruption, all the usual suspects at play. It was my soap box before I got on TBP. It once was a daily activity not so long ago. Now I just go there for fishing articles and to keep up with the friends I made there. The changes I proposed are for the most part being instituted. I pray I can make a difference here too.
not sure why i came up as anonymous KeyserSusie
Nice post.
It would be nice to know who you are, other than Anonymous.
Since you like fishing … perhaps El Capitan? Then you could change it every few fucken days. El Tuna. El Old Fart.
We wouldn’t confuse you with El Coyote El Whatever. He has a wicked sense of humor that can’t be duplicated.
Seriously, pick a name … then make a difference here.
I edited it to add my name that was somehow deleted. I think I sometimes click on the name box which erases whatever is in the box normally autofilled.
1) Twitter, Yes. I tweet occasionally, but usually its mundane as hell. I have found twitter to be a great tool for keeping up with what’s going on with a few of my interests.
2) FB, No. Not just no, hell no, fuck no. Never have, never will unless it’s to save my own life or that of my family. It is everything that’s wrong with our culture distilled into one environment.
3) Signed up for LinkedIn years ago when I was unemployed and desperately searching for work, but now, generally forget it exists. Have used it about 4 times in 10 years to contact colleagues.
Tom,
Did you actually find a job via LinkedIn?
No Twitter
No Facebook
No Social Apps
But I have been known to watch pretty young girls take off their clothes.So I’m kind of Social.
No.
No.
Had a LinkedIn account years ago when I was an executive for a transportation company. Now I view social media as the literary version of selfies. Not my cup of tea….
On FB, I witnessed good friendships go to shit, when political posts we’re vehemently rejected. As a positive, it helped distinguish some enemies.
Also see the positive about staying in long distance touch w good friends & family, but on the flip side o that coin, I visited a friend in Dallas, & his ex took a picture of us, and posted on FB who was in town. Didn’t even ask. WTF? Or, when someone asked how I liked ____ , & my response was: ‘how the fuck did you know I went there?’…”Oh, your details were posted by ___ on FB. Damn. What about my privacy? That trumped any more desire to express myself or reveal personal stuff that’s better kept private. Finally, it got to be a useless time waste seeing stupid posts about nothing. My good, close friends are an email or a phone call away. And now, they are censoring conservatives. I don’t need FB, Twitter, or others. TBP suits me fine.
Facebook is the only thing I use here and there. Mainly to vent with articles combating the insanity going on. TBP is posted periodically. No personal details, no personal pictures, NO public posts of any kind. I keep my “friends” list tight.
No twitter, no social media. Cell phone has rotary dial and backpack straps.
Twatter- No….won’t happen
FB- No…..I would rather slam my hand in the car door all day.
Social Media….. Nope.
1) after 12 beers, I tweet, I whistle, I sing, I burp, I fart. Does any of that count?
2) after 12 Scotch, my face falls into whatever book I am reading. Hence, I suppose I do occasionally face book.
3) What is a social media, and why is it ap?
now that was good stuff there.
1- No tweets. I wont shit on your windshield either, although I have been known to howl at the moon.
2-No Facefuck. Never even had a real urge to make an account.
3- No other places either. I have better things to do. I haven’t gotten as desperate as Stucky counting how many times I can wax my carrot in a day yet, but that could count as better things to do.
No.
No.
No.
Can’t miss what you never had.
That’s right I/S !! And we all lived better lives before becoming glued to a IPad or cell phone.
Humans need to be with others and talk directly to others in a real sense, with animation and feelings. Something is lost in the electronic version of being social.
Remember dancing ? Guys and gals holding each other close. When is the last time you danced with your wife/husband? We were robbed when we traded LIFE for an electronic pacifier.
I would never ‘tweet’ or do Facebook, but WhatsApp is the cat’s meow if you travel overseas and want to send photos or just communicate with anyone anywhere. A true fact.
Social media???? Damn, Rdawg just taught me what a character map on Windows is last night. I’m still battling with that. I don’t need no stinkin’ social media.
Seems like a self-inflicted wound, potentially, these days.
Yer welcome.
Sorry Stuck this is way OT, but fuck it. Hate takes energy that I’m not willing to expend. I can’t give up this line of thought. We need an anti-war or anti entanglements slogan at TBP. It might be the only thing readers here might agree on. I don’t believe that I have ever read one positive comment about our country’s forever-war like behavior here. TBP signature on bumper sticker with slogan would easily reach target audience of older white guys that drive. (OWGTD) Contest, best anti-war bumper sticker slogan with TBP thumb consensus. I’d gladly put one sticker on each of my two vehicles. It would be the first bumper stickers ever displayed by me. How cool to someday wave at another TBP reader. Almost sounds like activism. Anitwa…
We already have a slogan:
We’re Doomed!
I love the idea.
I prefer letting the birds tweet.
My face is quite often in a book.
I think that conversation is the best form of social media there is. Face to face is preferred, but on the phone is ok too.
No Twitter.
No Facebook.
No other social media.
And no cell phone.
And I told my son I would kick his ass if ever signed up for Facebook.
Tweet, Yes
Face Book, Yes
Other social media outlets, Yes
I’m very social.
I think pussy galore and I need to meet and greet as we are the only two who affirmed all three vices. Shhheeeesh what a bunch of misanthropes.