How do you use social media?
If at all. And mostly to read what others are saying, and learn if that’s possible.
Let’s start from the beginning. The only social media platform that I use or spend time on is LinkedIn after quitting nosebook and twitter before it became x.
And on LinkedIn, it is interesting to see people call themselves experts on a subject because they have written a few blog posts on it, wrote a book that ain’t peer reviewed and have a podcast where the acolytes gather to listen to their king.
Is wordpress social media? Well, I spend a lot of time here. These days agreeing with people, avoiding conflict and getting entertained while at it. In this place, I talk about myself occasionally but use it mostly to clarify my thinking, and this happens sometimes when we disagree. It is the one place where a lot of learning has taken place.
So I use social media sparingly to learn, to communicate and to share pictures of my adventures.
Random thoughts 
Also sparingly. I spend time with a few carefully selected communities on Discord. There are a very few people I follow on Instagram. And WordPress, of course. But no Facebook ever, and I don’t use Tiktok or Xitter either.
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I am just starting to use discord for a research project but that’s all. I never joined Instagram.
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Many times
To learn, search, adventure and meditate. Sometimes to kill boredom. Mostly on Google domains.
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I have contemplated reducing my digital footprint
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I have a similar feeling.
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I used to use–and like–Discord, until it morphed into something much larger and more complex. And somehow I lost my hold there, and can’t get back. They tell me I don’t exist.
For the most part I’m a gamer, with only a few games that interest me, and I prefer discussions (we knew that) groups as well. Beyond that I don’t do much outside of google…
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I am working on getting my away around discord. Maybe I might come to like it with time.
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I may want to try this Discord. I am not very social. I just do things online that please me. I easily get bored with bombarding information about people and their issues. That’s why I treasure the few who really make sense to me. They are really few. Most of the time I am just alone in the ‘social’ media
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I sparingly use it too. Can’t stand it, really. I get all I need here on WordPress. I wonder too, is WordPress social media? I guess to some degree it is.
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Sparingly is the right approach, I think.
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Sparingly is probably the wisest approach.
I’m pretty burned out on social media (at least with microblogging). We appear to have stabilized with several platforms, and keeping up with all of them is just too much work.
And I’m barely maintaining my WordPress presence.
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Your WP is still good. Plus there’s always something new you post.
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My Kenyan brother, once again I totally feel united with you here. I only engage here on my blog and nowhere else. It is merely too polarized and biased, just as I am in writing this! 😉 However, your photographs – and yourself as photographer – need more exposure than on just the limits of a social media platform! Much love and naked hugs! Have a great weekend! 😉
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I don’t use flakebook, & only use Twitter [hate the name ”X”] to look at pics of cats, & follow my favourite musicians. I very seldom comment.
I follow you on here, & a few others who never seem to post, but I very seldom post myself.
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I wonder where some of my favourite bloggers went. They seem to have hung their pens to dry for whatever reason.
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Could be any number of things.
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Mostly just read a handful of blogs. Yours, Nan’s, Mano Singham’s, Ophelia Benson’s Butterflies and Wheels, although admitting the latter would get me cancelled by some socialjustice warriors🤪. Also some music blogs.
Also have a handful of Substack blogs in my feed.
Total YouTube addict, partly for movies and humor.
instagram as an observor, not a participant.
X or Facebook…never bothered
Biggest issue is my addiction to “outrage porn”
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You are doing well so far. These are more than a person needs for a healthy dose of news, gossip and information.
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Yes, this is social media, but for smart people.
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But the people at WP have been working hard to dumb it down with every iteration.
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I use WordPress, facebook and you tube. Get a lot of information by listening to podcasts, etc. on you tube. A lot of blogs on WordPress are what you called echo chambers the other day. People reinforcing each other’s opinions.
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Facebook is good for keeping up with people and local community news.
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Keeping up with people would be my only reason to be on Facebook but this motive hasn’t been strong enough. News I don’t care so much for.
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I like podcasts. I got hooked to them so late but it has been a good ride. Echo chambers especially where the discussion to be had is difficult and there are nuances to the conversation and those are really depressing.
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Sparingly, and solely for educational purposes,
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You have turned the social in the social media on its head.
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I’d venture that social media is a misnomer. It should have been dubbed anti-social media.
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In the same league as social distancing
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yeah, that too. But at least it provided a handy excuse to avoid people with bad breath and other malodourous types.
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since I wandered into social media sites in the 90s, so much has changed–at that time even making a comment was considered a big deal, and what programs there were, were all encompassing. It’s much more sophisticated now, almost to the point of pain in some places.
On occasion I’ve made some wrong turns, but managed to get out from under the fallout. And being a game player from way back, that occupies me as much as blogging does.
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You have been online for quite long my friend. Mine started recently. In the early 2000s and I am working hard to reduce my footprint. I don’t do computer games. I have tried but I never got hooked.
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How do you use social media?
I don’t use social media. If I did have social media it would be to promote my blog. Please subscribe to my blog
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