Cutting the noise of social media

[pbellot]

While keeping up to date with the TFF, I've cut out most (if not all) of my social media (addictions). There's just more value here on the forum. Unlike the dumpster fires of the Twitters' and Facebooks', there is actually people taking action and not being armchair quarterbacks.

I feel that I'm more focused. The result is that I've been bouncing between TFF and a web development bootcamp course from Colt Steele on Udemy. Here's the link to the course: The Web Developer Bootcamp - Udemy

I should have joined TFF years ago, but I'm happy to be here now, learning and participating.

 

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[V8Bill]

I'm not a fan. I don't get twitter, I don't like (many things about) Facebook including the way they deliver group conversations. Forums are the killer app of the internet (I've said this before). With facebook groups (apart from all the inane and pointless chatter) topics and conversations get lost as soon as they disappear off the page. This leads to people asking the same questions over and over again. A forum has a useful structure, you can see all the conversations laid out in front of you and you can get to know the people in your community.

I know I'm going to eventually have to go back to Facebook but the best news I heard recently was from a young person who said "Facebook's lame - too many old people trying to be cool" (followed by a finger pointed into the mouth in a gagging motion). I'm sure it has it's uses but making me feel like I'm socialising isn't one of them. Way too much self promotion disguised as "socialising" and not enough authenticity. I also don't like the paradox of the way it feeds you only things you're interested in. I think it robs me of discovering new and interesting things. I currently (as I write this) do not have a Facebook account.

I say "currently" because I'm sure I'll be dragged back in kicking and screaming at some point for something I've got coming up in the future but I'm not looking forward to it.

 

[Millenial_Kid5K1]

While keeping up to date with the TFF, I've cut out most (if not all) of my social media (addictions). There's just more value here on the forum. Unlike the dumpster fires of the Twitters' and Facebooks', there is actually people taking action and not being armchair quarterbacks.

I'm right there with you, I haven't been on facebook for a while now. It just isn't worth it, 95% of posts are either baby pictures from a friend of a friend, generic motivational images, or political posts that piss me off. Not worth the time or energy.

 

[Mattie]

I really find the same thing. I don't really pay attention to social media much. It makes my brain go dead. I get bored. I waste time looking a photographs, meme's, and no added value. I go on there for one reason to talk to my son in Michigan and tell him to get on Skype. I'm on this forum and that's about it lately, because I got bored reading the same thing I've read since 2010 every where else. It keeps my mind more focused and where its constructive and doing something useful instead of day dreaming away life.

 

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