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comment by MadEmperorYuri
MadEmperorYuri  ·  3163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social Media - What was your reason?

I've tried lots of social networks over the years. The big ones today, as well as older ones like MySpace and LiveJournal, and some others whose names I forget.

The only ones I've stuck to are Digg, Reddit, and now Hubski. I expect Slashdot would have attracted me too, if I were old enough for it. Thing is, I've never really used those three for social networking. I made plenty of comments here and there, but I was never paying attention to who I was talking to. Still don't. That doesn't strike me a very social. Best I can think of that fits that is the occasional debate I might get involved in, but that only created a relationship that lasted for the duration of that debate, and then was gone from my mind.

As for Facebook, I don't like the company, for all the usual reasons. And beyond that, it's not useful or fun for me. Everything that Facebook offers me I can have more fun doing IRL. Everything I can't do IRL I can do with email or some IM service or another.

And as for Twitter, I have nothing to tweet about, and no one's tweets interest me. The one thing that I have found Twitter useful for is getting up to the minute accounts of some event going on somewhere, but that only happens rarely and I don't need an account for that.