Any of you out there have no social media?

Yeah, there's surely a difference between Letsrun and real social media, but it's apparently to much for you to grasp.

Nancy Nancy Nancy wrote:

Yeah, there's surely a difference between Letsrun and real social media, but it's apparently to much for you to grasp.

It's kinda like Shakespeare plays vs strip shows. (You decide what's what.)

no socialism for me wrote:

I only have anti-social media, i.e. letsrun.com.

+1. LRC is my only social media platform. My wife was the first to point out to me that being on this site is basically the same thing as facebook, et. al.

I said it before and I'll say it once more before ditching this thread: social media is mostly for whining. Since virtually everybody in this thread seems to really like whining to strangers on the internet, you all would probably like "real" social media a whole lot more than you seem to think.

I'd wager, for instance, that many letsrunners (including some in this thread) could find lots of like-minded people by checking out Trump's twitter feed or Facebook page.

Then you wouldn't have to post about him on this site.

Nobody is talking about the REAL evils of social media! It is garbage, get out.

https://m.soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/71-what-is-technology-doing-to

Check this out (Facebook/social media is doing even more damage than people realize -- it's really, really bad - extremely harmful; this isn't political, just facts):

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/16/facebook-the-overvalued-privacy-destroying-life-sucking-menace/

Social media is just something millennial do cuz they are bored, especially during the so-called workday.

dean wheeler wrote:

Everybody should at least have a facebook account they check regularly for notifications. Nothing is worse when trying to organize events & there's always the odd loner who doesn't have facebook & nobody knows where they live or how to get in contact with them. Back in the day when planning a class reunion we'd look someone up in the phone book, but now nobody has their info in a phone book.

Plus when planning events it's helpful to get a head count & party goers can say "yes" on the event page in facebook. Of course now you have to call or email the non-facebook loner & hope actually check email or their voicemail. Often they don't.

So non-facebook & non-social media users, thanks for being a selfish pain in the butt. You're making the world less productive.

Do people really go to class reunions?

THemack wrote:

Havent had anything for about 4 years. Age 30 now

Same here. It makes me feel out of the loop sometimes, but i don't mind at all. I'm also 30. If you still need a mindless app for things like toilet time i would highly recommend imgur

I agree. I have Facebook, and I've slowly come to use it, but I'm also 100% aware that it is a corporate machine for harvesting date that can then be sold to advertisers. So the FB homepage, with its cheerful motto, "It's free and always will be," just makes me laugh until I cry. I can't believe the number of people who imagine that all the stuff FB asks them to specify about themselves--favorite bands and movies, for example--are actually about THEM. The moment you use FB to advertise something and are confronted with all the tiers of information that let you specify a subset of ideal ad recipients, you realize what a game has been run on you.

I almost never post personal photos on Facebook. I've posted a grand total of one selfie. (Since I don't have a smartphone, I took it with a camera.) I've never posted a photo of my wife, because she values her privacy and I value her. I'm amazed by how much intimate stuff public people share. Once I thought that a Memphis anchor woman was cute, so I googled her and quickly arrived at her FB page, where, not even her friend, I was within ten seconds staring at vacation photos of her and her boyfriend--much more private stuff than I would have imagined a cute Memphis TV person would be laying out there for creeps like me to drool over. I'm not a creep, but you get the idea. I almost felt like one, shuddered, and moved on.

It's all about data. Every single thing you share on Facebook is sucked into the matrix, tranched, and weaponized, then sold to advertisers who want to make you buy stuff. The website may have begun as something else, but that is what it has become--at least from the supply side. So if you choose to use it, you've got to be smart. Do your best to scramble the e-brains of the bot that imagines it is developing a nuanced and fully-rounded sense of the consumer that you are. Better yet, minimize the number of affinities you specify. And always remember: it's not about you. It's about what they can advertise to you and hopefully make you buy. Only a fool would believe otherwise.

LOOK at yourself pal. You posted on this thread as well, more than once. But it's "different" for you, right? You're whining throughout your whole post!!! Talk about irony. I think you like it a lot more than you are willing to admit and you love Trump! Or you're a flaming far left liberal dribble who says everyone else is whining, but give me my free stuff now. Am I right?

look@yourselves wrote:

I said it before and I'll say it once more before ditching this thread: social media is mostly for whining. Since virtually everybody in this thread seems to really like whining to strangers on the internet, you all would probably like "real" social media a whole lot more than you seem to think.

I'd wager, for instance, that many letsrunners (including some in this thread) could find lots of like-minded people by checking out Trump's twitter feed or Facebook page.

Then you wouldn't have to post about him on this site.

Now that was funny...and true!

comparisonator wrote:

Nancy Nancy Nancy wrote:

Yeah, there's surely a difference between Letsrun and real social media, but it's apparently to much for you to grasp.

It's kinda like Shakespeare plays vs strip shows. (You decide what's what.)

Nancy Nancy Nancy wrote:

Yeah, there's surely a difference between Letsrun and real social media, but it's apparently to much for you to grasp.

"Real social media" 😂🤣😂🤣

The only difference is our anonymous usernames - but that isn't even true for everyone. Heck, I know what Jamin looks like for better or worse.

Macdaddy, you're a weasel dude, a little skinny runt weasel. Sucks to be you.

People who have long lost high school crushes and/or are hoping to get laid.

Macdaddy wrote:

Nancy Nancy Nancy wrote:

Yeah, there's surely a difference between Letsrun and real social media, but it's apparently to much for you to grasp.

"Real social media" 😂🤣😂🤣

The only difference is our anonymous usernames

I hate pretty much every one of the registered users so you can keep that "real social media" for yourself.

I have many friends but I left because of the plethora of losers who inhabit the site. So what if they're not on my friends list? I don't enjoy associating with a site that promotes losers to do what they do best: lie, cyber-bully and whine. Facebook is a pathetic place.

age 33...deleted all accounts in 2014. don't miss it at all.

OGCz wrote:

In essence, I mean no Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Twitter.

Anybody else out there?

Nothing.

Don't want it. I'm afraid I'd post something that I can't take back. At least, that's probably what would've happened a few years ago. Now, not so much.