social networking what do you use?

[desertstriker]

I am curious as to what social networks sites we all use. Facebook is really common and probably among the most popular, MySpace i am not so sure about (or if it is even used anymore and then there is google+ and even twitter.
So which ones do you use? if other please feel free to reply with it.

edited because of nitpickers

[Betonov]

Is Skype considered a social network ??
I put that under other

[desertstriker]

Is Skype considered a social network ??
I put that under other
eh not full social networking but i suppose it can be counted.

[Webster]

none, im too old I guess because I have no use for it :hmmm:

[Ducimus]

None of the above, because I do not use social networks, run a blog, or whatever.

Specific personal information + internet = bad idea

[Jimbuna]

Skype for known personal friends and Facebook for family only.

[Wolferz]

None of the above and I share the same sentiment as Ducimus.

Social networking can hurt you in so many ways these days.

[desertstriker]

None of the above and I share the same sentiment as Ducimus.

Social networking can hurt you in so many ways these days.
Thats why I keep everything hidden (birth year, city living in etc) even my friends cant see that stuff if they don't know it oh well. I also have a password that is a jumble of letters numbers and special characters(if permitted by the site). What hurts people these days is they have no sense of security. No antivirus, spyware or malware protection so there can be a (keyloger grabbing passwords), then to top it off they make everything public so even if someone doesn't know them it is possible to pull birthday location and such oh and cant forget the vacation pictures or my personall favorite is add people from groups for games they play. They make it easy they expect to automatically be safe and not have to do anything.

[Red October1984]

I use Facebook mainly to keep up with friends I don't see and family.

Twitter and Instagram I have...but I hardly use them.

Skype...I use for gaming friends/subsim friends.

Google+ I only have because I have a Gmail Account.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Facebook - keeping in touch with all my former colleagues.
Twitter - I don't usually tweet but occasionally read others' tweets, usually funny or gaming orientated. I have been known to complain to DICE about BF3 problems and it looks like I'll do the same for BF4 if I get it.
G+ - Don't use very often, and by the looks of it nor do many others, at least in my circle of friends.

[TarJak]

What about Subsim?

[Onkel Neal]

What about Subsim?

:up: That's my main network, and also FB for non-Subsim people.

[Betonov]

Skype for known personal friends and Facebook for family only.

Thanks Jim, when can I come over for dinner :)

[desertstriker]

subsim was a given' since I posted in subsim:D. No I have a project I am working on and before i finalize the plan I want to see where else we gather/socialize. more details will follow at some point i hope.

[Sailor Steve]

I joined FaceBook only because Subsim had a page there. My kids found me, and that is still my only way to keep up with them. I have friends on FB, but almost all of them are people I actually know or used to know. I have 'friended a couple of folks I've never met, but they are part of the game I play and I would love to meet them someday.

MySpace I joined because of the band I was in. I still have my page there, but I never visit.

Skype is for talking to my real friends, because it's free and my phone isn't.

Subsim is "my" website, and the only one I visit regularly. While I think it should have been listed, I don't really think of it as social networking. In fact I don't think of the others that way either.

That's it.

[Jimbuna]

What about Subsim?

What's that? :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Thanks Jim, when can I come over for dinner :)

You arrive with a keg of that cherry flavoured firewater and your welcome any time :)

[STEED]

None of the above, because I do not use social networks, run a blog, or whatever.

Specific personal information + internet = bad idea

Same Here.

[Skybird]

None. Works great.

[Betonov]

You arrive with a keg of that cherry flavoured firewater and your welcome any time :)

None of that anymore, the cherry tree is starting to die on me :wah:
Some homemade honey schnaps (known as simply mead here, altough not true) then ?? :)

[fireftr18]

I keep up with my fire department friends with Facebook.
I joined Linked-In because a colleague got me on it. I don't get on it very often, but an occasional discussion that interests me comes up.

[Cybermat47]

I use the oldest and most popular.

Real life.

[TarJak]

What's that? :hmmm:

Its this weird web place I've heard of that's long black and full of would be seamen.

[Jimbuna]

Its this weird web place I've heard of that's long black and full of would be seamen.

You should feel right at home there then :)

[Ducimus]

Thats why I keep everything hidden (birth year, city living in etc) even my friends cant see that stuff if they don't know it oh well.


As someone who has helped maintained a database of internet websites for over a decade now, I guarantee you that facebook and similar social media outlets maintain a searchable database on all their users. Setting stuff to private doesn't matter. Database's are created, maintained, sorted, and often sold or contracted out as a "feed" for monetary compensation under contract.. I'll wager Facebooks Database is arguably the most powerful commercial database on personal information in existence right now.

[Stealhead]

In my opinion if you are a regular user of any site that allows discussion in any shape or form well that is social media.Even if you use a pseudonym and do not use any of your real information it is still social media.

Youtube that is big time social media and I am very surprised that it is not on the list of options.What has been listed are only social networking sites.

@Ducimus that is a sure bet just look at the stock value of Facebook.The value is so high only because of its marketing value if Facebook had no marketing ability it would be worthless.I am almost ceratin that Mark Zukerburg knew exactly that this was the true value of Facebook all along.

[Sailor Steve]

Youtube that is big time social media and I am very surprised that it is not on the list of options.What has been listed are only social networking sites.
The thread title is "Social Networking". That's why the list only contains social networking sites.

[Stealhead]

The thread title is "Social Networking". That's why the list only contains social networking sites.


Yeah, I got ahead of myself there.I read this thread the other day and came back and forgot the exact title.:doh:

Though honestly I think you could argue that Youtube is used for networking to some extent.Though it does require less stringent membership and you need not input any personal data to open an account.Where as with a pure social networking site you do.

Anyway what I was trying to say is that nearly everyone does use some form of social media these days.Even Bob Dole.

[desertstriker]

The thread title is "Social Networking". That's why the list only contains social networking sites.
key word "other" if i had listed everything i would need a few threads all will become clear later ok. not going to talk about it ATM. currently though the sites are priority

[Mr Quatro]

key word "other" if i had listed everything i would need a few threads all will become clear later ok. not going to talk about it ATM. currently though the sites are priority

You left off "boobbook" and "buttbook", but I forgive you for I no longer go to those web pages :D

[Jimbuna]

key word "other" if i had listed everything i would need a few threads all will become clear later ok. not going to talk about it ATM. currently though the sites are priority

Well I hope your going to offer financial incentives to SubSim members for whatever you've got planned.

[Schroeder]

I'm with Ducimus on this one: None!:rock:

[Jimbuna]

I'm with Ducimus on this one: None!:rock:

What about TS?

[Ducimus]

In my opinion if you are a regular user of any site that allows discussion in any shape or form well that is social media.

I would define "social media" as the latest evolution of a category of sites that I have watched evolve throughout the years. IMO "social media" started out as a "home page". Originally, sites like Geocities catered to this. "Home pages" or "personal web pages" later evolved into weblogs. Here that evolution diverged into two seperate branches. Weblogs went on to be "blogs" while the "home page" crowd that would make up lame HTML content about themselves went on to things like Myspace , facebook, and twitter.

Personally I have always taken a dim view of personal blogs, because theirs so damn many of them. An utter waste of bandwidth with millions of people, each one creating web content about themselves as if their somehow special and different from everyone else, or as if some random person on the internet actually cares. If you've seen one blog, you've seen them all. I see facebook as just an evolved version of this, though I will admit that it does make it easier to keep tabs on a friend or family member. At the same time however, I also have security issues with making personal information available on the internet, Private or not, once you put it up, it's there, and archieved in someobody's database.


Even if you use a pseudonym and do not use any of your real information it is still social media.

I disagree. Take subsim for instance. I use a pseudoonym, and never post any real information. However, I would classify this site as a messageboard, or to get really old school, it's a BBS. A bulletin board service. On a side note, I also call "folders" directories.


Youtube that is big time social media and I am very surprised that it is not on the list of options.What has been listed are only social networking sites.

Streaming media. It streams content, mainly videos that people can post comments on.


@Ducimus that is a sure bet just look at the stock value of Facebook.The value is so high only because of its marketing value if Facebook had no marketing ability it would be worthless.I am almost ceratin that Mark Zukerburg knew exactly that this was the true value of Facebook all along.

Probably. Database's can be big money. The one I work with, is the only reason why im still employed and have managed to survive countless layoffs, a merger, and later acquisition by a much larger corp.


Anywho, i'll add my personal info to things like facebook when pigs fly.

EDIT:
On a side note, even if your extremely careful and contentious about what info you give out about yourself on the internet, your personal info will still end up in somebodys database, available on the internet for a fee. There's a crapton of background check websites, or sites geared to finding an individual. All you need is a name and last known location, and you'll find them. I think all these sites draw their data from the same sources, I just don't know what it is. These sites typically give out teaser information, to get the full report you have to pay a fee. I looked up myself and found my last known addresses in such detail, it even listed some of my old PSC addresses.

EDIT 2:
First name, last name, city you live in, specific information like that, should be avoided like the plauge if you don't want some random person digging up your info. Also domain name regestries should be made private. I made that mistake for awhile but rectified that years ago.

[Mr Quatro]

I would define "social media" as the latest evolution of a category of sites that I have watched evolve throughout the years. IMO "social media" started out as a "home page". Originally, sites like Geocities catered to this. "Home pages" or "personal web pages" later evolved into weblogs. Here that evolution diverged into two seperate branches. Weblogs went on to be "blogs" while the "home page" crowd that would make up lame HTML content about themselves went on to things like Myspace , facebook, and twitter.

Personally I have always taken a dim view of personal blogs, because theirs so damn many of them. An utter waste of bandwidth with millions of people, each one creating web content about themselves as if their somehow special and different from everyone else, or as if some random person on the internet actually cares. If you've seen one blog, you've seen them all. I see facebook as just an evolved version of this, though I will admit that it does make it easier to keep tabs on a friend or family member. At the same time however, I also have security issues with making personal information available on the internet, Private or not, once you put it up, it's there, and archieved in someobody's database.



I disagree. Take subsim for instance. I use a pseudoonym, and never post any real information. However, I would classify this site as a messageboard, or to get really old school, it's a BBS. A bulletin board service. On a side note, I also call "folders" directories.




Streaming media. It streams content, mainly videos that people can post comments on.



Probably. Database's can be big money. The one I work with, is the only reason why im still employed and have managed to survive countless layoffs, a merger, and later acquisition by a much larger corp.


Anywho, i'll add my personal info to things like facebook when pigs fly.

EDIT:
On a side note, even if your extremely careful and contentious about what info you give out about yourself on the internet, your personal info will still end up in somebodys database, available on the internet for a fee. There's a crapton of background check websites, or sites geared to finding an individual. All you need is a name and last known location, and you'll find them. I think all these sites draw their data from the same sources, I just don't know what it is. These sites typically give out teaser information, to get the full report you have to pay a fee. I looked up myself and found my last known addresses in such detail, it even listed some of my old PSC addresses.

EDIT 2:
First name, last name, city you live in, specific information like that, should be avoided like the plauge if you don't want some random person digging up your info. Also domain name regestries should be made private. I made that mistake for awhile but rectified that years ago.

I wanted to edit what you said, but all I could do is agree :yep:

I too always thought of subsim as a message board. A place where you could leave a message about your game experience and then go back to playing the game. Not a place where you sit and hit refresh all the time, okay I know you mods have to do that, but a place to leave a thought or two.

What about youtube? A lot of people link to youtube here. I like it for music and unusual happenings in th world, but I seldom post there.

Is youtube considered a social media site?

[Ducimus]

Is youtube considered a social media site?

Personally I don't consider it a social media site. I consider it streaming media. I think the line is fuzzy because the standard business model you'll see these days in many IT related markets is packaged offerings, with one product integrated or linked with another.

[Garion]

I use Facebook to keep in touch with my girls at Uni and people I have met in Real Life.

Cheers

Gary

[Oberon]

I use facebook and twitter.

Social media fears are todays version of the fears of new media, printed text, photographs, moving pictures, there's always technofear, and there will be in the next generation a different type, perhaps that of a fear of machine/mind mixing or AI self-awareness. Very few teenagers today have a fear of social media, and they are tomorrow, so our tomorrow will lose that fear of social media and information brokering, and so on and so forth.

[Armistead]

I have a FB page, but I seldom get on it.

[Mr Quatro]

According to this post shared on twitter, subsim is a social networking site too for I have seen the same thread on here a few months ago about some poor man in Europe getting his first car and even Sailor Steve had a thread about his first car in a long time.

It's just that we are lower class compared to this lucky girl in Seoul getting her first car for only $37,500

So we do qualify as a social networking: http://www.allkpop.com/article/2013/10/suzy-buys-her-very-first-car#axzz2ggPDY4mY



It's no secret that Suzy (http://www.allkpop.com/artisttag/suzy) is raking in the money (http://www.allkpop.com/article/2013/02/suzy-surpasses-girls-generation-to-become-the-1-cf-queen) and now she finally bought her very own car!

It has now been revealed that back on September 25, Suzy and her parents visited a BMW car dealership in Gangnam where she purchased her first car, a Mini Cooper Clubman, for 40 million KRW (~$37,350 USD). Suzy previously attended a driving school in Gwangjin, Seoul and got her license over the summer and is now ready to hit the road!


Her agency responded, "It is true that Suzy bought a car. It is not a gift for her parents but she drives around in it for her own personal use."

[desertstriker]

According to this post shared on twitter, subsim is a social networking site too for I have seen the same thread on here a few months ago about some poor man in Europe getting his first car and even Sailor Steve had a thread about his first car in a long time.

It's just that we are lower class compared to this lucky girl in Seoul getting her first car for only $37,500

So we do qualify as a social networking: http://www.allkpop.com/article/2013/10/suzy-buys-her-very-first-car#axzz2ggPDY4mY
again subsim would have 100% vote since we are all here it would be like asking on facebook if users used facebook hence why i omitted subsim as a answer

[Herr-Berbunch]

it would be like asking on facebook if users used facebook

Or posting in an SH5 thread asking which is best SH3 or 5. :/\\!!

[Platapus]

Do you know how to find out how many "friends" a facebook user has?

Just wait, they will tell you. :up:

[Jimbuna]

Do you know how to find out how many "friends" a facebook user has?

Just wait, they will tell you. :up:

LOL....been on it for years but still rely on my kids to keep me right and explain its workings.

[Betonov]

Do you know how to find out how many "friends" a facebook user has?

Just wait, they will tell you. :up:

Every month less :O:

[Schroeder]

What about TS?
I don't think that counts as social media in the sense of the OP.:hmm2:

[desertstriker]

I would not consider TS a social network per se but i could argue it is at the same time.