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.

I use the oldest and most popular.

Real life.

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

What about TS?

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?

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.

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

Cheers

Gary

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.

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

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/...#axzz2ggPDY4mY