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Would you consider it unusual for a woman in her 40s not to be on Tiktok or Instagram?

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SpaEnjoyer · 27/08/2025 06:06

I am 46 and I have never used Tiktok. I have looked at Instagram a couple of times but never registered on it. I have always thought it was a bit naff. Yet I was told yesterday by someone that it's "unusual" not to be on either of them. I've always thought Tiktok was mostly for people in their 20s and below, and Insta is mostly for under-30s. What are your thoughts MN?

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BogRollBOGOF · 27/08/2025 12:26

FB which is where most of my peers are active. Plus useful groups/ pages. It's become less personal over time, partly life stage, fatigue and data concerns. Not helped by every update enshittifying it.

I lightly dabble with insta. Not much posting, but some people transfered more to posting on there. I follow a small number of other accounts of interest.

You tube/ shorts cover any content that I would be interested in from Tik Tok, but I prefer long form content.

Never did snapchat. I never saw a great benefit and prefer more functional messaging methods.

It's easy to diss social media, and it certainly has its pitfalls (kept the DCs off most except WA, and that with caution) but there can be a lot of good there too. I did C25k because seeing friends running made me believe it was viable. Forums made me aware of C25k in the first place. Social media has made exercise and fitness far more accessible to me than traditional media such as books and magazines ever could- that content was created by proficient runners/ participants for other proficient runners/ participants.

There's loads of random, interesting, geeky, obscure content out there that has never or at least been very lightly touched by traditional broadcasters/ media, and I've gained a huge amount from SM content in the past 20 years.

Icanttakethisanymore · 27/08/2025 12:50

I’m 40, I have an instagram page but never posted, I think it was created out of my FB page with the same friends years ago. Never been on tick-tock

Rallentanda · 27/08/2025 12:53

I don't think it's unusual. I don't do TikTok but I have an Instagram account and what used to be a decent app has turned into trash. Adverts absolutely all the time and the social side of it has dwindled to almost nothing. (I got addicted to it during lockdown, the algorithm sent me lots of calming images.)

Crunched · 27/08/2025 13:01

I use Insta as a good way to keep up with businesses opening up locally, as well as following a few people who are doing interesting things with their lives. My own page is a way to record where I've been and what I've done mostly just for me to look back on when/if I can't do much anymore.

In my experience TicToc is used by teens/20s and Facebook by 50+. I don't do either.

User37482 · 27/08/2025 13:02

I don’t use tiktok and only really started using instagram for kids stuff.

user1476613140 · 27/08/2025 14:08

In my 40s too - I don't use TikTok or Instagram. Not interested.

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