I was wondering how typical my social media usage is compared to other Hubski users.
Facebook I don't use Facebook a great deal any more, and when I do it's mainly for sharing photos or organising events, two things it excels at. When I chat with friends it is mostly over SMS.
Twitter My personal twitter is very stream-of-consciousness. I occasionally use it to conduct small conversations with friends and followers.
Reddit Reddit is my quick fix that I go to when I'm killing time.
I'm interested to hear how my usage compares to others on Hubski.
I took a long break from using Facebook, but I have recently returned if only to post photos of my family so that my relatives and friends can see them. There is also a Hubski page on Facebook that I will occasionally drop links to.
I use Twitter to occasionally post Hubski material but other than that I pretty much spend all of my "social media" time here. I like it and I've gotten to know a number of the Hubski users. What I think is cool is that I've gotten to know them based on the content that they post not at all what they look like or anything else superficial.
FACEBOOK: Pictures of me looking like a badass, pictures of my wife looking hot, pictures of Skeletor holding space puppies
TWITTER: I follow Hugo Chavez, Al Shabaab in Somalia, Rupert Murdoch, the Pope and Spaceflight Now (helpful when I'm up at Vandenberg). I only post things from my Kindle. My Twitter feed is insanely, delightfully irrelevant... but due to bots, I have a dozen followers.
REDDIT: Reddit is useful for dumping my leftover energy from writing, kind of like the cooling pools of a nuclear reactor. Not only that but the demographic of Reddit is precisely the target audience of Hollywood so it's been keenly useful in refining my writing to reflect my target audience. In short, Reddit is my Fight Club that allows me to refine the writing that counts to the point where it's good, rather than just vomited words on a page (most of my Reddit posts).
I am also a member of two or three smaller, topic-specific boards that have been made deliberately and forcefully invisible to Google. I'm much more sociable there.
"Badass" is all in the attitude. Dos Equis' "Most Interesting Man" is a Jewish dude with good lighting. Anybody can find good lighting.
So - the trick to writing isn't in what you write, it's in what you don't write. The best stories are always those told in the most interesting way possible, and the key to "interesting" is obfuscation. As Heinlein put it, "indecently decent" - a decent pair of lingerie is vastly more erotic than a buck naked girl. We don't want to see it all, we want a little mystery.
The natural order, however, is to write everything. This is particularly deadly in screenwriting (I've written ten and optioned two) where you aren't writing prose, you're basically writing an epic sonnet. The trick of good writing is to make every word count, which means if you're any good at it, for any word that makes it onto the page there are a dozen that died in your head.
This can be frustrating, and it can cause a literary embolism. Stephen King famously writes a short story after every novel just to use up all the leftover energy from the novel; SHAWSHANK was left over from Dark Tower, if I'm not mistaken.
"how much do you write a day" is a very personal question and everyone has a different answer. My natural order is a scene (or group of scenes) a day. Which really means only about 750-1000 words that actually count and hell - maybe 4-5000 that never make it out of my head. So they sit there spinning around and pissing me off and getting in the way of the next 750-1000 words that count.
So I dump them.
Reddit is the repository of my "diarrhea of the fingertips." Simply writing a bunch of words in response to something clears the buffer and allows me to return to the writing that matters. Lots of people will say things like "stop hanging out on screenwriting websites and write a damn screenplay" but I'm most prolific when I'm actually writing something because I need the "heat sink" forums provide.
The useful thing about Reddit is that it provides near-instantaneous feedback on your writing. Not only that, the feedback comes from the target demo most desired by marketers. Anyone who isn't refining their writing by bouncing it off Reddit is an idiot; yeah, Reader's Digest publishes stuff too but they don't have the numbers Stephanie Meyer has.
Pretty much, after a hard nine innings I hit the batting cage so that I don't get into bar room brawls. It has the advantage of making me a better baseball player.
Does that make sense?
Oh god we use Reddit for the same things, but different motivations.
You test screenwriting and mass appeal, I test communication boundaries and nuanced oddities of phrasing. I mean, most "conversation vs. masses" social media, especially with large character limits, are good places to play with boundaries and tailoring message to audience.
Interacting with Reddit, more than anywhere else I've paid attention to, is Gorgian Rhetoric in it's purest form; "you can say anything and be rewarded for it, as long as you get the phrasing right for the context."
Facebook - Don't have any. I used to had but i really mostly lurked.
Twitter - Don't have, never had, and never will.
Reddit - at first i was a lurker. for 6 months to be exact. now when i have something intresting to say or post i just do. reddit can be really fun sometimes, but it can also be the worst place on earth.
And you just circle-jerked about people circle-jerking against the circle-jerk. I hate that "word".
It's people trying to dismiss an entire discussion topic and/or the opinions held by the majority, on account of nothing but the popularity of said topic or opinion. And-round-and-round it goes.
I deleted my facebook. The utility of it was negligable, and my constant issues with the privacy and oversharing finaly made me throw up my hands.
I still have a twitter account, but I rarely use it. I find the reverse-cronological order of short comments makes it irritatingly difficult to peice together coherent thoughts of it's posters. I also don't like sharing with the draconian character limit.
Reddit: A combination of utlity and time-wasting. I have my own private subreddit for passing notes to myself, and I kill a lot of time on the site in general - though I've long since stopped following any of the default subreddits but askreddit, since it's the best time-killer amongst the defaults. Seeing an image macro in any subreddit I follow makes me automatically itch to unsubscribe it. I do use it to keep an eye out for useful utility sites for my writing. I hope to use Hubski for the same purposes - though less of the generic time-wasting, and more utility.
You Tube: Only very rarely.
Any I'm missing? Frankly, the truth is I don't like sharing myself on the internet very much.
No G+ users here? I barely use mine but it's actually pretty nice for following tech people and tech news. Plus the new communities thing is interesting. Overall I think it's promising, I just hope that it doesn't keep adding features and subsequently get bloated with too much stuff.
I like Twitter for its simplicity but like others have said the archaic character limit keeps me away. I'm begrudgingly still using Facebook for now for its utility. And lastly, like many others on here I just migrated here from reddit, since that's been going downhill for a while.
Two reasons I will not be using G+ in the near future (although I think my phone may have automatically set an account up). 1. Google already have far too much of my personal information. 2. It would need to hit a certain level of usage within my friends/peers for me to gain enough value.
I just deactivated my Facebook and will be switching over to G+ soon. The Facebook crowd has drama, random updates (like Twitter's stream of consciousness), and reposts of memes and snarky sayings. A few of my friends are on G+ already, and there's considerably more discussion.
The reason I don't use G+ is that I can get it's functionality elsewhere. I follow tech people on twitter, and few big names on facebook (Robert Scoble, Zuck etc). If more people used it, I'd be tempted to use G+. I personally don't think twitter's character limit is archaic, and it's what makes the platform what it is.
Yeah I know what you mean re:twitter. I go back and forth between what I think about twitter. The simplicity of it is a godsend in comparison with other social media. On the other hand, as @strangegibbersh@ posted above, the reverse order of longer posts and conversations makes it hard to piece together what someone is saying and makes the platform seem a little messy to me (also, with all that tweeting lingo, it sometimes takes me forever just to figure out what someone is saying).
With G+, I like it because it does a lot of things pretty well and has a pretty clean interface. Unfortunately, being a jack-of-all-trades means it is a master of none. sigh I'm glad there's competition, but boy would it be nice if there were one simple platform that all my friends and everybody I want to follow were on.
I understand the sentiment but why delete it? Just drastically cut back your "friends" and set your content filter then just don't use it.
Its still a handy way of keeping in touch or finding an old friend if you decide you need to.
I don't use it very much but why limit what you have access to?
Would you be comfortable with restricting how much information you share with the service and just keeping it around as a utility?
Also,.would "deleting your account" actually take away the information they already have?
I was comfortable sharing my information with Facebook back in 2007. But as time has gone on I have become more cynical of their collection and use of personal data. I think this opinion was formed based on individual incidents (opening it up to search engines, changing of privacy settings) and largely uninformed media hype. Over the same period, I have become increasingly aware of my online 'footprint'. I want to get into politics later in life and don't want my opinions/photos/data being taken out of context in the future. Therefore, I prefer social media where my real identity is not disclosed.
Yeah, I never use twitter mostly because of format issues but I've got our just in case it comes in handy somehow.
I often use Facebook as I have many connections to close friends through groups, I usually 'unsubscribe' from most people and pages to avoid the often the abundance of annoying posts which allows Facebook to become a relatively more bearable service.
I also often use Youtube as a 'time-killer' since viewing videos often involves more time.
Finally, I use reddit for my quick fix of news and interesting content. I am only subscribed to a handful of non-default subreddits including r/android, r/doctorwho and r/askscience.
Hope this helps!
It's my favorite christmas special that the've done yet. Damned with faint praise, though - I haven't really enjoyed any of their christmas specials very much.
It was a solid episode, that avoided the tendancy to feel "excessivly fairytale" that the last two christmas specials have had. My primary complaint was that I didn't buy the doctor's motivation for... what we will call the first half of the episode. (to avoid spoiling anything.) Not that I feel that such motivation is impossible, but it was seriosuly undersold.
I absolutely loved it. So many nods to classic who. I recommend watching it if you have the chance!
Facebook: I have an account but do not use it. Twitter: Use it as a newsfeed, but I'm very inconsistent with it. YouTube: I have only recently started to subscribe to channels (mainly music). Reddit: Outside of a couple of subreddits, I just use it as a time waster.
I guess I use Facebook to keep in contact with friends and share photos, as it seems many of you guys do.
I don't use Twitter; I find the concept interesting but see little use for it.
I love Google+, but as is often said happens to be the case; few of my 'real' friends use it.
Reddit, as Albatross said, can be 'a bit of fun' or the 'worst place on earth'.
That's it; I've had a few other social networking accounts over time (instagram, so.cl) and I literally have never logged into them after creating the account.
Facebook Deleted my account to keep my personal information out of the hands of criminal masterminds and corporate scumbags. Twitter Only follow local organisations that post about events about real life events that effect me (weather, traffic, air travel etc) Reddit Kill time by browsing through nonsense pictures etc. Get annoyed that any serious and thought provoking discussion immediately turns into conversation about poop.
Facebook: my account essentially only exists to keep up a profile (local musician / self-published author) and to keep in contact with people and groups I otherwise couldn't.
Twitter: used occasionally, mainly to keep up with certain people and events I have an interest in.
Tumblr: one is very stream-of-consciousness, cathartic gibberish. The other is for writing and music.
Reddit: for boredom and tech/special interest subreddits, like r/android and r/Nexus7. Also used to talk about reddit itself on r/theoryofreddit etc.
Am I the only one who uses facebook to curate and share content? I post about 50% of the articles I read, pictures, space & science stuff, cool websites, whatever. I used to have a tumblr, but I used it and Facebook so similarly that I gave up on it.
I just use Facebook to keep up with friends and as for procrastination. It's helpful for events, otherwise I just use it to procrastinate it and refresh mindlessly.
Twitter ends up being a dumping ground for random thoughts, or sharing things about life I find amusing.
I use Tumblr as an archive for whatever I find interesting, collecting interesting pieces of art, incoherent rants, and other random introspective ramblings. I find that a lot of my friends are more vulnerable on Tumblr than in real life.
I use Facebook quite weird, I basically just lurk at people I actually care about (around 100 friends). I never status update, but I will reply and comment on my friends posts. I use it more than I actually want, and I´m thinking of deleting it for good. I used twitter three years ago and thought it was pretty fun to follow artists I like. I don´t use it at all now. I used to be a big tumblr user way back. I´m not going to lie, I loved it haha. Now though is just a bunch of fangirls (and boys) obsessing over every little thing. I don´t use it at all now. 4chan and other forums/message boards I use only when I get home really late and I´m drunk and or high. I browse around /co/ and obviously /b/ but just for shits and giggles. Youtube I don´t really subscribe to a lot of people, and when I do is about music. I love [the needle drop´s](www.youtube.com/user/theneedledrop) reviews though. And Reddit, oh Reddit. Not going to lie I still love it, not as much as I used to though. I unsubscribed from a bunch of big communities (except for /r/askreddit), and really love a bunch of smaller communities, /r/soccer /r/comicbooks are my favorites and are actually the few I participate in. I kill a lot of time there and they have good new and from occasions good discussions. I don´t think I will leave it because I do like a lot of it, but it´s not what it used to be.
Facebook is actually incredibly useful to me, the Events feature in particular. It's how I find out about a lot of happenings. I don't use it to post photos a lot. FB chat helps me keep in touch with people I might not think of keeping in touch with otherwise. However, my news feed is very filtered, because I have too many friends.
I don't tweet, I've always found it annoying, and reddit was just as good for keeping track of news with (sometimes) better discussion.
reddit is for killing time with funny things, interesting things, some news, and occasionally good discussions. With the value of reddit's content decreasing (which I know is why a lot of us are here), I get that post-redditing depression more and more.
Facebook: I still use this to keep in contact with my family, and a lot of my fellow students in my program use it to keep in contact and coordinate things. Most of my friends haven't quite moved to twitter yet.
Twitter: I mostly use twitter to network with other music educators, and to discuss a little bit of politics in my state.
Reddit: I still check it, but I mostly just look at content, I don't really comment too often, and I avoid posting as well, since the downvotes flow so readily for anything that doesn't fit the current culture climate of Reddit. I still like r/jazz and r/classicalmusic.
I just came to Hubski yesterday, but I quite like it so far.
I tend to go into a "hermit" mode where I don't go to social events for long periods of time and I use Facebook to assure people I'm still alive by posting a rant or two, or sharing a link that might cheer up a friend. I also use it to keep tabs on other friends like this, who might suffer from some sort of social anxiety or depression, and live too far away for me to randomly drop in on.
I don't use Twitter.
I use Reddit to see what people are talking about in any one particular theme. I'm a bit guilty of using it like my morning paper, to see what events went on that I hadn't heard of.
Facebook To keep in touch with classmates. Twitter Not. Reddit Aggregator and Filter of the Internet Hubski Right know as a Reddit supplicant/addon
I had deleted my Facebook for about a year, but at the urging of all of my friends, especially those that I have a hard time keeping in contact with, I made a new one with a limited number of people, the people I actually care to hear about. I rarely post, and the main use is for group chats.
I have a Twitter that I made a while back but never go on, because I don't find people's 2-second thoughts incredibly interesting.
I'm doing my best to get off of Reddit, I found out about Hubski through that r/TheoryofReddit post but I've been getting sick of the content on there for a while.
Tumblr is where I go for silly pics and the like, but I go on very rarely and reblog even more rarely.
I'm just getting started on Hubski and I really love the amount of actual conversation on here, and I'm looking forward to spending a lot more time here.
I am a producer in the underground electronic music scene so a lot of the social networking I do on Facebook and Twitter is to do with marketing myself and communicating with fans and other musicians. In terms of my personal page, it's more just for messaging friends and keeping up rather than obsessively posting everything I do.
Soundcloud is another site I use often for promoting my music, as well as a constant source of new and interesting music of wide variety. Youtube used to be sole source of promotion but I now just use it for watching videos, inane or otherwise.
I'm becoming increasingly distanced from Reddit except for specific subs and I can't think of anything else I use really.
I use Facebook to broadcast to my personal friends and local acquaintances. These blurbs and replies tend not to be as heavy on thought provoking content but I find that it's very useful for keeping in touch with that group of people.
Reddit has been good for me to talk to a wider range of people that are connected solely through common interests by way of carefully selected subreddits.
I just never really got into Twitter. I recognize it as a great tool but it just has failed to serve me and my particular needs I guess.
Youtube, for me, is usually a source of funny videos, instructional tutorials and informative clips. But I absolutely do NOT participate in the comments sections and I very rarely watch a video blog clip from there. So, I don't even really consider it a social network with the way I use it.
I really just hope Hubski will be a revival of the level of discussion that used to go on at Reddit. It still happens there and I will still browse and comment there but it's just been flooded out with attempts to find that perfect reaction gif or pun thread.