lOL !!
Oops ! My apologies Mr. Snow !
Obviously reports of your demise have been greatly exaggerated!
I am on Facebook today mostly only to see my kid's postings. being they have family out of state they tend to more readily post their day's adventure online so See pics and find out how their day went that way. (they don't live with me and one is in college) Sometimes I see posts from my two bothers... otherwise I would delete Facebook. I did join interest groups. WWII, USAAF, Star Wars fandom groups, 1940s type stuff. It can be fun for photos and info and pass a little time before going to bed especially since I don't watch TV much. but the general "Look At ME" Broadcasting is just stupid. Its a mental disorder for many of them. Attention seekers with borderline personality disorder and a need for approval or sympathy. people are just fishing for compliments. I believe many have Histrionic personality disorder....
lol!
its a waste of time. like most social media apps. I can't keep up with them all. a friend of mine kept telling me to get this app, get that app, post here and not there etc. he kept telling me to get instagram, reddit, twitter, snapchat etc and I told him I had enough troubles keeping up with Facebook posts and he can message me there. he was a techno social media jjunkie. I asked him why would he bother to post to 4 different apps? what a waste of time! he told me one day "EVERYONE" was migrating off Facebook and moving to google+ circle like everyone moved off MySpace and went to Facebook. So "now" you can have a "circle of friends" at invite only blah blah blah. I checked it out and even joined a group... but guess what. google+ lasted 8 years... by April 2019 google shut it down. so much for a huge migration off Facebook to google+
I’m such a friggin dinosaur
Heard of Tik Tok …… don’t know a thing about it
Thanks Steve !
I am on Facebook today mostly only to see my kid's postings. being they have family out of state they tend to more readily post their day's adventure online so See pics and find out how their day went that way. (they don't live with me and one is in college) Sometimes I see posts from my two bothers... otherwise I would delete Facebook. I did join interest groups. WWII, USAAF, Star Wars fandom groups, 1940s type stuff. It can be fun for photos and info and pass a little time before going to bed especially since I don't watch TV much. but the general "Look At ME" Broadcasting is just stupid. Its a mental disorder for many of them. Attention seekers with borderline personality disorder and a need for approval or sympathy. people are just fishing for compliments. I believe many have Histrionic personality disorder....
Now, I can see a lonely old goat (not unlike myself) that has no friends or they live remotely getting their social fix this way. it can be a bit fun at times but like you say, I don't need someone I once knew 30 years ago friending me then wanting to start up reconnecting and then I have to deal with constant news feeds of their family outings and pet's antics or see what they are cooking for dinner. its silly. I. don't. care.
I used to post on FB for the benefit of family and friends... pics of outings, kids with me going out on nature trails, what movie we went out to see etc but after a while I realized it wasn't necessary. I can directly private message pictures and info to my parents and my two friends should I need. the general broadcasting means nothing. I literally have 1400 "friends". I think I actually personally know 12 of them. the rest friended me because of similar interests. I don't feel the need to post my ideas opinions and personal events to these people. I think I saw my reflection and how silly it all was a couple of years ago. it really hit home when everyone got on their high horse, their soap box and got all bent out of shape during this past political turmoil. it got ugly and Facebook stopped being fun. everyone was against everyone and if you didn't feel the same way they did about president so and so or potential president so and so then you were wrong. I also got so tired of the racial divides and name calling.i was watching the crumbling of society live as it was happening in real time.
I also see a LOT of self pity posts. way too many broadcast their issues and post how they are "quietly suffering" with a condition like depression. hey, I've posted about my depression and anxiety here once I believe and its okay to mention it but too often I see the same persons that are"friends" with me post on Facebook with a general public cry for attention but then say they are "quietly suffering" no. the ones quietly suffering don't let people know they are. they don't broadcast it out to the general public at large on social media. attention seekers.
Now in interest groups its sometimes fun to post an item from your collection but rarely does it ever actually start a conversation about it. you get a pat on the back with a "like" after a while what's the point of that? then your post is lost and buried under other people's postings so you have the attention of the other members for 6 to 8 hours then its forgotten.
And here I am... posting my opinion on social media and complaining about it for attention because I have no friends... now I'm depressed
anyhow, I got over Facebook and while still there and check things out for my special interests posts only I have to scroll past all the other ego postings... so its not so much fun. the last thing I want to do now is then go to instagram to see what's there, then tiktok to see what's posted there, then twitter to see what's posted there....
