I have never had a Facebook account.
I signed up for LinkedIn 2 years ago.
Goodreads is the only social network that I enjoy participating in.
Ask HN: Do you use social media?
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#22I have a FB account and use it mostly to post pictures of my cat to my friends and talk to the breeders of my cat as needed. I also have a much more active Twitter account and use it to post pictures of my cat to anyone who will listen. Then I've got two not too active Instagram accounts that I only post to sporadically - one for my fitness/workout posts and the other to post pictures of my cat.
You should post a picture of your cat.
I am so happy you asked: http://i.imgur.com/nj3H28P.jpg
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#23While I do have an account on most of the social media portals - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit - I am mostly a lurker and a very rare contributor (Instagram is a small exception).
I do like seeing what other people are up to but I am not sure I have a lot of interesting things to contribute myself :|
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#24I signed up on FB in 2005 and linkedin in 2003. This was when social started to get some serious momentum. I was on myspace before FB. 10-13 years later I do not use any of them. Why? FB seems more appropriate for teenagers or young adults. I grew up since then and have other hobbies. Linkedin is like a Resume, totally worthless (in my case) besides searching for a new job every 3 to 5 years. Twitter? I opened an acc…
> FB seems more appropriate for teenagers or young adults.
They're all on Snapchat now, and the teens who joined FB early have since locked down their FB accounts to super-private and use it to talk to their parents, because their parents shy away from Snapchat.
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#25Only twitter, less than 30m per day. I'm also planning to use flickr to keep family photos.
I don't have a facebook account.
Professional social network like... LinkedIn?
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#26My main use is reddit, followed by Hacker News and then Twitter.
I hard-deleted my Facebook account ~5 years ago; it had become a time-suck, downer, and an obligation more than something fun. I don't miss it, though I am aware that there are a few things I'm missing.
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#27I have a Facebook account but only use it once a month or so.
I'm trying to pump a motorcycle Instagram account right now, so I'm active there multiple times a day using a Chrome extension I wrote for the purpose.
Magis for Google Chrome gets you more followers and increases user engagement by giving you a few keyboard shortcuts that make you fast. One button likes and a quick keyboard combination for comments.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magis/kahkfpeemmmj...
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#28I use Facebook to chat with friends and organize social events but do not post personal content. LinkedIn is truly awful, my feed is flooded with recruiters complaining about candidates or posting cringy motivational stories.
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#29FB - Been on and off and after some introspection left it for good since all I see was people posting their wedding and honeymooning photos and also none of them were really 'friends'. With the people I consider friends I prefer to just pick up the phone and converse.
LIinkedIn: Visit now and then to check out jobs and rather have to some extent used as a FB replacement (though in a better sense) to be in touch with people and network mostly to know about their professions or their higher education so as to get an idea of what kind of work or courses they do. Just helps formulate an opinion and build a career path sometimes.
Twitter: Just for news updates and its mostly fun seeing politicians and celebreties wage war of words and then news channels debating and analyzing who trolled whom and what it could have meant. Just to relax after a long day.
Quora: if that qualifies as social media, find it useful to get a general opinion on any random topic. Been spending some time here, though been reducing it to focus on the real world
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#30Yes I do. I think most people does. I opened my facebook account for like 10 years already. It's good to know your friends latest news and how they're doing lately.