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Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Strava, Reddit

Strava is easily my favourite social network (if one could even call it that). It's non-addicting and the more I use it, the better I feel and more productive I am. I've never ever seen an argument on it either. Its positive flow-on effects are superb.

The heat map "revelations" earlier this year was slightly fascinating but made me wonder how many of those writing or commenting about it have actually ever used Strava.

Disclosure: I don't "race" using Strava and use "common sense" to avoid taking risks, etc - the riskiest thing to health for most people these days are sedentary activities.

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Twitter: I follow Christian leaders I respect as well as a bunch of software developers and some software projects Facebook: I have a small number of friends on Facebook, but I never use it for posting personal things about my life, just to follow people. RSS: I follow a lot of software projects, software developer blogs, and some Christian leaders/bloggers. This overlaps with Twitter to some extent but more for inte…

> I follow Christian leaders I respect That made me wonder if Jesus Chris was alive today whether he would have a twitter account for you to follow.

Well, the Pope does.

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

#33
Twitter: I follow mostly programming related accounts.

Instagram: Follow church related stuff

Facebook: All my close friends and family, and some groups

LinkedIn: Don't really accept connect requests from people i don't know, so just really professional connections.

Reddit: I follow some bike subreddits, and some tech, try to avoid r/all

HN: For the news

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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post #14

I don't use social media. I have a Google+ account to share photos (and nothing else) with my family, but the bugs make that harder and harder, so I'll have to abandon it. (Any suggestions?)

Share directly from the Photos app or photos.google.com - don't go to plus.google.com, it's dead (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-...).

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I follow Christian leaders I respect That made me wonder if Jesus Chris was alive today whether he would have a twitter account for you to follow.

Well, the Pope does.

There is a bit of a difference between the Pope and Jesus Christ himself. In fact if Jesus Christ were alive I don't think we'd be in much need for a Pope (and you'd be calling him Saint Peter).

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

#37
I use Marco Polo to stay in touch with family. Both my wife's family and my own discovered it a couple of months ago and it's a great immediate way to stay in touch with each others daily lives.

I use reddit to follow a very small number of specialized topics and very occasionally post.

that's it.

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Twitter: I follow mostly programming related accounts. Instagram: Follow church related stuff Facebook: All my close friends and family, and some groups LinkedIn: Don't really accept connect requests from people i don't know, so just really professional connections. Reddit: I follow some bike subreddits, and some tech, try to avoid r/all HN: For the news

lol, i don't want to make assumptions, but it's hard to not wonder if this post is being downvoted simply because it mentions "church"...

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

#39
Facebook: All the time. Virtually everyone I know, virtually every event I go to, virtually every business I frequent keeps their content up to date. I derive great value from it.

Twitter: Hate it with a passion. Primarily use it at conference and other such ad-hoc gatherings. Impenetrable UX (I still have no idea how anything works after 10 years of trying), impossible to get the feed working the way I want it, horrible use of space (somehow way less efficient than Facebook even though it's supposed to be for short messages), threading/replies/etc impossible to follow.

Strava: Post all workouts (multiple per day between bicycle/run/peloton/etc). Follow a handful of people. Non-addictive but I don't necessarily derive a ton of enjoyment from it either. Great for tracking my workout data but the 'social' part is something i don't much care about either way.

Reddit: Almost never; makes me feel like an old grump complaining about 'kids these days'. Every subreddit I try makes me feel like it's 1996 again and everything is new, and everyone is wowed by the same old stuff and rehashing the same old political/religious/etc arguments. It feels 20 years out of date to me. I keep hearing you just need to find the 'right' subreddits for you, but so far, no luck.

Instagram: I use it/post fairly regularly. Not quite sure why. I don't enjoy it more than when I see the same pictures on Facebook.

Likely the way I derive value from these things is that I don't care about brands/influencers/etc. People who really like Instagram and Twitter seem to care more deeply than I do about random people they've never met. The reason I derive more value from Facebook than any of the others is REAL people I actually known and care about are there, and their content interests me. I have no more use for 'online personalities' than I have for reality TV.

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