Well, I think I'm sure there isn't a thread about it, so here I'm.

As for me, I use them daily but I'm not that obsessed over them. Used to play some facebook games but not anymore. As for getting in touch with my family members that are somewhere else, I use other ways.

Well, I could have done better with the polls options, but I'm not so creative right now, so bear with me. 🤣

This week's favorites:

• Golden Kamui

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EVERY SINGLE DAY. It's bad, I need to get a life. Oh well, I can deal with it if I for whatever reason can never go on there again.

I avoid them like the plague. I was on facebook and twitter. Facebook accidentally deleted me and I was freed from its evil clutches 🤣 So after escaping facebook, I deleted my twitter account. I used to spend hours on facebook doing basically nothing. I spent a lot of the time there refreshing the page.

For me social networking sites especially facebook, represent precisely what's wrong with society: The constant, overbearing need for approval and acceptance, even at the expense of "the self". It's all so damn superficial. I understand that its good for a reconnecting with long lost friends and acquaintances and Im happy for the select few who use facebook only to that extent BUT I think it's the most potent disease to adolescents. Facebook just heightens all the problems most teenagers face. The need for acceptance/the sense of not belonging, the awkwardness, the loneliness, the confusion & ambivalence as to their identity. No I'm not just waxing philosophical or blowing things out of proportion. Facebook does all that shit. If I were religious I'd say that facebook and social networking sites were the antichrist 🤣 😐

No one gives a shit what trite garbage you write here.

I use them to stalk people daily.

O_O;

I use Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. I probably check Facebook once or twice a day just to see if I have any messages, or if I'm arranging something with my friends. Nobody seems to use MSN anymore so I also occasionally use FB chat to talk to my friends back home. FB really simplifies arranging stuff with people you don't see that often, since I came to uni it's been a real saviour. One of my friends refuses to get Facebook and it's such a pain always having to remember to text him about stuff we're planning. I also end up feeling quite out of touch with him when I see him after he's been away for a long time because he doesn't try to stay in touch other than by text and I find that a really poor means of communication, not to mention I can't afford to keep texting him all the time.

Twitter I just check for news and stuff. I don't tweet much especially since I don't have an internet plan on my cell phone/mobile.

Tumblr is... admittedly very addictive. I probably spend way too much time on there but it's just something to do. I like making gifs and sometimes blogging about what I've been up to lately. It's a good way to find other people who are into the same things as you, be creative and vent a bit.

I don't think social media are evil, in the end it's your choice how much or how little you use them and how much you share. Social networking sites have tons of positives but of course they can have a negative effect, just like anything can if you use it to excess. It depends how you use them. That said, I don't think young kids should be using social networking sites. I've heard about, likeeeee... seven year olds on Facebook. Why?! What could they possibly need Facebook for?!

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I avoid them like the plague. I was on facebook and twitter. Facebook accidentally deleted me and I was freed from its evil clutches 🤣 So after escaping facebook, I deleted my twitter account. I used to spend hours on facebook doing basically nothing. I spent a lot of the time there refreshing the page.

For me social networking sites especially facebook, represent precisely what's wrong with society: The constant, overbearing need for approval and acceptance, even at the expense of "the self". It's all so damn superficial. I understand that its good for a reconnecting with long lost friends and acquaintances and Im happy for the select few who use facebook only to that extent BUT I think it's the most potent disease to adolescents. Facebook just heightens all the problems most teenagers face. The need for acceptance/the sense of not belonging, the awkwardness, the loneliness, the confusion & ambivalence as to their identity. No I'm not just waxing philosophical or blowing things out of proportion. Facebook does all that shit. If I were religious I'd say that facebook and social networking sites were the antichrist 🤣 😐

I wholeheartedly agree with your statement, secretdesires. I feel almost exactly as you do about these leeches of evil, but I feel given the technology and the culture of the day, these "social networking" sites are a necessary evil for a variety of reasons.

First, it seems Failbook and the rest are permanently changing the way we as a whole we communicate, even with our closest loved ones and friends, even for the most casual of conversations. Second, I'm getting more and more afraid that top of the line employers are using these sites to get and edge for recruiting and keeping airtight contact with their employers. Soon, it will be almost null for us to build up a resume for our dream jobs, it will just end up being an old high school popularity contest to see who gets the job or prize of sorts. Also, the purveyors of FB, Twitter, and Google, seem to be wanting the need to access for all the information they desire to become public knowledge, thus bringing in the "big brother" aspect to the frey. I, for one, do not want even the most personal and private information to become public by any means, but if these guys get their way, those fears might become fruition in little time.

But, I do go on Failbook and Twitter from time-to-time, just to catch up and chat with my friends, and play some of their poker games. It serves a good purpose for those, at least.

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Quote from secretdesires

I used to spend hours on facebook doing basically nothing. I spent a lot of the time there refreshing the page.

For me social networking sites especially facebook, represent precisely what's wrong with society: The constant, overbearing need for approval and acceptance, even at the expense of "the self". It's all so damn superficial. I understand that its good for a reconnecting with long lost friends and acquaintances and Im happy for the select few who use facebook only to that extent BUT I think it's the most potent disease to adolescents. Facebook just heightens all the problems most teenagers face. The need for acceptance/the sense of not belonging, the awkwardness, the loneliness, the confusion & ambivalence as to their identity. No I'm not just waxing philosophical or blowing things out of proportion. Facebook does all that shit. If I were religious I'd say that facebook and social networking sites were the antichrist 🤣 😐

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