What popular social media sites do you not have accounts on?

[Jayro]

I only have a Reddit for replying to tutorials I find.

 

[SylverReZ]

I only have a Reddit for replying to tutorials I find.

Used to use Reddit to post memes, deleted my account as I have gotten bored of using it.

 

[RetroNerdGamer]

To be honest, like, everything.
I only have discord and steam. Anything else not really.
Though, I did make a new account here but like only because I wanted to make it easier to talk about certain mods/translations I follow or really like. Especially if I have an issue.

 

[natakuy]

Twitter.

 

[JaapDaniels]

I don't have:

• Twitter: why should i want to be a add bot enhancement?
• Parler: never heard of it.
• SnapChat: never heard of it.
• TikTok: never heard of it.
• KiK: never heard of it.
• OnlyFans: is this social?
• 4chan: again is this social?

I've got:

• Facebook: rarely used, not interesting...
• Whatsapp: it's the only app in it's soort my parents understand, and they're to old to change.

 

[SylverReZ]

I deleted my personal TikTok account 2 months ago because I spent too much time scrolling videos.

Congrats my dude!
TikTok sucks.

 

[FAST6191]

• Whatsapp: it's the only app in it's soort my parents understand, and they're to old to change.

I got the shock of my life when my aunt who has probably never owned a computer, is one of the people paying for premium answerphone service in current space year (as in she can dial in from any landline to pick up messages from anywhere and uses that to do her business), had an old dumb mobile phone turned off 99% of the time in the glovebox of her car (granted that is technically more active mobile phone than me)... hopefully you get the picture was given an old tablet by her son to see pictures of her grandkids and I see her using telegram quite happily,

 

[Harry579Clark]

I had a Tik-Tok account, but at some point, I decided it was wasting so much of my time each day on useless videos that I decided to delete it.
I haven't been on Tik-Tok for about 5 months now, and it's made me feel a lot better mentally)
I also don't sit on Facebook, as I'm just not interested in it.

 

[Trojaner]

Have nothing at all. Love my Peace and Silence. Deleted my last accs around 10-12 years ago.

 

[InsaneNutter]

Snapchat - I deleted my account many years ago.
TikTok - I have never used.

I think the target demographic for both of these are teenagers to people in their mid 20s.

 

[SylverReZ]

-snip-

 

[AncientBoi]

[looks at my porn site channels that have chats in them] I got all of them

 

[SylverReZ]

Snapchat - I deleted my account many years ago.
TikTok - I have never used.

The young demographic is always using them, and its never good for their life at that.

 

[Ryab]

I used to have a Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram. But they have all since been deleted. Nowadays I only have a Discord, Reddit, and well a few forums like GBATemp.

 

[FAST6191]

[looks at my porn site channels that have chats in them] I got all of them

We found someone that comments on porn sites?
Between that and the guy that buys old sports games from game shops/thrift shops we saw the other month I am almost done with my thought to be mythical persons list.

 

[InsaneNutter]

The young demographic is always using them, and its never good for their life at that.

That does make me wonder if that's what my parents thought about my brother and I using the family computer / internet a lot as kids. However at the same time I think it was obvious we learned a lot of I.T. skills messing about online as teenagers which benefited us in School / adult life. We did play out all day on bikes / rollerblades in the summer, so I guess it balanced out.

In general I think the internet was a lot safer back then, despite what the media might have had you believe at the time.

Today social networks today like Instagram gives younger people an unrealistic idea of how they should look and all that, which I do feel too much of is dangerous for long term mental health.

 

[SylverReZ]

Today social networks today like Instagram gives younger people an unrealistic idea of how they should look and all that, which I do feel too much of is dangerous for long term mental health.

I completely agree with you.

 

[Deleted member 571007]

In general I think the internet was a lot safer back then, despite what the media might have had you believe at the time.

This right here, 100%. But sadly the more something expands, the more ways people find to use it maliciously.

 

[FAST6191]

This right here, 100%. But sadly the more something expands, the more ways people find to use it maliciously.

Is it malicious (which I will push towards actively malicious in this reply) or more a feature of the system? People only posting the good stuff, people using filters that might be known to them but trick the lizard brain, those perhaps more prone to seeking social validation seeing those struggling and getting validation/attention for it wanting some of that (munchausen syndrome is a bit strong for some of that but a jumping off point, social contagion is a real thing though), it generally being a poor substitute for human interaction...

There is certainly malice or active mal design somewhere in the mix (already have any number of such sites/companies on record as aiming for interaction time maxxing out if not we don't care about the users if it gives us more ads, in addition to whatever censorship they engage in as though they are my mum) but even in the magic snap fingers and remove all that say the 99% of society (though 1% failure rate is still abysmal when scaled up to populations) and somehow also keeping all those that can hack it which are now in their eyes pointlessly restricted you are still left with the passive stuff from the first part.

 

[TheDerpyDolphin]

The only popular social media I use is YouTube. I used to do Discord years back but honestly it was wasting my life away for the short time that I had it and I deactivated my account after a few months. I also technically have a Reddit account, but that’s only because I had to ask a question once or twice and I didn’t know where else to ask at the time.