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

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

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

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.

Every month less :O: