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How many social media accounts do you have?

Facebook? Twitter? LinkedIn? Instagram? Google plus?Youtube? Etc.? Etc.?

Do you have none, one or a bunch of them?

How do you keep track of all your accounts all over the Internet?

I activate/deactivate my Facebook often. I hate it, actually.

A friend of mine recently got me to sign up for Twitter, stating it's a much better networking tool and a great way to receive news and information. No one I know beside him uses it, so I don't have any followers yet, but I do like the stream of updates I get from all of the newspapers/magazines/writers/etc I've chosen to follow.

Simply put, I don't get how people that have Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and 10 other accounts are able to manage all of these at once while still being active and managing their time wisely. I have no urge to do the same, but sometimes it does make me feel like I'm getting left behind. Or am I?

Then again, I like not caving in to social media. Who knows how long I'll stick with this new Twitter account I have. A day, a week, maybe a month.

How about you guys? Avid social media advocates or hate it with a passion?

I really only use Facebook. I did make a Google+ account when it first started, but it's pretty lame and I haven't logged in for over a year. Not interested in Twitter, and Instagram makes photos look shit, so I'm not into that either.

Oh, boy, here we go:

• Facebook
  
• Orkut
  
• Google+
  
• Last.fm
  
• Goodreads
  
• Connotea
  
• Twitter
  
• LinkedIn
  
• Rdio
  
• Library Thing
  
• Academia.edu
  
• Skoob

I was on facebook for 2 days and it was horrifying. Drama found me right away, every cute girl from highschool got fat/pregnant... the whole thing just made me uncomfortable. It's like an opt-in NSA surveillance database

Yeah I activate/deactive fb on a regular basis. Can't wait to purge my friends list too when I move.

The standard 3

Jdate
Adult friend finder
Lavaliife

But ya

Fb
Twitter
And LI

They are fantastic tools.

Just FB. I had an instagram but only uploaded one pic and used it so infrequently I forgot my password. So I deactivated it.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney The standard 3 Jdate Adult friend finder Lavaliife They are fantastic tools.

you forgot christian mingle, thats where the real freaks hang out

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Originally posted by meriter you forgot christian mingle, thats where the real freaks hang out

So true.

Facebook is the only one. ALthough I feel like I should try twitter.

twitter is only useful if for following things you care about or using it for pr. I don't get normal people posting their tnormal shit.

last.fm
facebook

I started a linkedin a few weeks ago but I haven't done anything with it.

I don't think dating sites count.

I really don't like them though, but they are fun to use, which makes me feel like a hypocrite. If FB just went away tomorrow I'd probably not care at all. I stayed off of it for years till last summer when I caved to pressure from citric and one of my cousins to get it (and I have since de-friended citric haha).

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney twitter is only useful if for following things you care about or using it for pr. I don't get normal people posting their tnormal shit.

Yea, that's what I'm getting out of it so far.

I don't get the whole "trending topics" and normal tweets part of it. Twitter moves so much faster than Facebook - who cares what you're doing or what you have to say in regards to some stupid trending topic or whatever.

I'm using it more as an RSS feed, which is working out OK so far.

Definitely better for obtaining meaningful information than Facebook.

I think the fact I don't know anyone who uses it is actually better because then I don't have people trying to add me or asking me why I deleted them.

Constantly having to read people's status updates is nauseating.

None, and I can't really be convinced I am missing anything. Unless TA counts for some weird reason.

Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

Tumblr seems like the fucking geocities/angelfire of the present day.

Filled with gifs, stupid posts, and porn.

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Originally posted by meriter I was on facebook for 2 days and it was horrifying. Drama found me right away, every cute girl from highschool got fat/pregnant... the whole thing just made me uncomfortable. It's like an opt-in NSA surveillance database

Same here, it just created drama for me too. I'll just stick to actually talking to people. The closet thing I have now is a Flickr

Facebook and Last.fm, if we can count that as social media and not just a way of obsessively monitoring your music habits.

I held off joining up to Facebook for years, but I've realised it's actually a fantastic tool for clubbing. Not only can you find and keep track of events and attendees really easily, but you can keep in contact with clubbers you met whilst fucked at an afterparty and would never otherwise speak to again. I've made a couple of really good mates in that way. The key to avoiding "drama" and a feed clogged with bullshit is to be extremely ruthless about who you add or keep on there.

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Originally posted by OrangestO I think the fact I don't know anyone who uses it is actually better because then I don't have people trying to add me or asking me why I deleted them. Constantly having to read people's status updates is nauseating.

Don't delete people, block them. Then they can't ask you. And you don't have to read everyone's updates. You can remove them from your news feed but still be friends. I've removed about 1/4 of my friends from my feed because I don't get anything out of what they post.

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Originally posted by WittyHandle I've removed about 1/4 of my friends from my feed because I don't get anything out of what they post.

It is usually people just bitching about life?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Facebook and Last.fm, if we can count that as social media and not just a way of obsessively monitoring your music habits. I held off joining up to Facebook for years, but I've realised it's actually a fantastic tool for clubbing. Not only can you find and keep track of events and attendees really easily, but you can keep in contact with clubbers you met whilst fucked at an afterparty and would never otherwise speak to again. I've made a couple of really good mates in that way. The key to avoiding "drama" and a feed clogged with bullshit is to be extremely ruthless about who you add or keep on there.

I am Jack's raging bile duct.

I regularly use Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, Instagram, does Youtube count? Google+ - I have only logged in like twice in the last year. Oh, and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is great for building a professional network (obviously), I actually got job offers cause of the linkedin account,

Twitter's great in that I get the fastest news and information in the fields I'm interested in, and Facebook's Facebook.

Only Facebook. I used to have a Tumblr account but there are only so many posts about weed and porn I can tolerate.

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