If you count FR as “social media” yes I use it a good bit — more read than post.
I have a silent FB account with almost no personal info on it to talk with my siblings.
Once in a blue moon I Disqus or tweet as FD2003.
If it all went away tomorrow I would miss FR and some similar sites but that is it. When I am not on my desktop/laptop I don’t use ANY social media. My tablet is for games like Angry Birds with no other people and my PDA is for work email and phone calls.
I don’t IM on any medium.
Free Republic is currently the only social media that I participate in... other than leaving a few reviews and comments here and there.
I have a great headstart!
No Twitter, No FB.
Only FR and a shadow of my portfolio. (not connected to actual account)
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I don’t know. I couldn’t care less about “the social media”. I mean, I’m on Facebook but for me it’s mostly a more convenient way to message family and friends than email. Without Facebook, I’d just go back to email. Without email, I’d probably go back to using the phone and the post office more. Big deal.
I don’t have Twitter, but I don’t think President Trump needs National Review’s advice on whether or not to dump Twitter.
FR is it for me. I don’t have an FB account nor am I on Linkedin which is a social network for professionals.
I have never thought of Free Republic as a social media site. I think of it as an educational news site. I never touch social media sites.
Facebook is a news and information gatherer, where you select the sources of interest to you. Whether its international diplomacy or bicycle mechanics.
This is a good thing.
Using it to post pictures of yourself, er, uh, smoking cigars, is of questionable value.
“would the social train wreck surrounding the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va. you know, the one that banished Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family this week have devolved into the embarrassing conflagration it is today?”
I’m not embarrassed. I’m happy she got toasted and got exposed for being Streep’s sister, living with a pedophile, and for pursuing Sarah down the street to the next restaurant.
There are a million reasons to leave social media. But this article is simply upset that their blowtorch got turned around on the leftists.