Do you still post on Social media?

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When Instagram came out, I used to post pics regularly, as did people I knew and it was like a little community, Fb was good too, lots of connections between people. It’s all completely different now, I post on stories occasionally but am even bored of that and feel weird after i’ve posted and question why I did. I wonder why some people post on stories every day for most of the day…?

I just don’t feel the same about it anymore, which is a shame as it was good maybe 6-10 years ago

All seems a bit sad now?

Isn’t it because it’s less social now, so in the past you would see what your actual friends were up to etc now it’s about content creation, adverts & selling a curated aspirational lifestyle to you. Boring tbh.

Nope. I have them both for work (as in using specific work profiles) which feels like a necessary evil. Otherwise I don't use them at all. Sadly means I lost a few friends. For example a friend of 20 years announced her pregnancy and the birth of her child on social media. I spoke to her on WhatsApp but hadn't seen the posts so I didn't congratulate her and she didn't mention it. She ghosted me after that and I heard it was directly due to me not caring about her life....but she hadn't actually told me the news. Same with another friend who got engaged. She didn't tell me personally, but only invited people who sent her congratulations to the wedding, so I didn't get an invite and she didn't respond to my message of congratulations when I saw her WhatsApp picture had changed. Seems so bizarre to me that social posts are seen by some as the only way news can travel and then you get in trouble if you don't see it. But c'est la vie, I'd still say the mental health benefits of not being on there outweigh the cons.

I don't post on any SM except TRUTH cos it is the truth and nothing but the truth, and I don't tell lies, piggy.
I don't post on Mumsnet either.

I’m 36 and post a fair bit, maybe once a fortnight or so. I genuinely don’t care about likes, and see my Instagram more as my own personal photo storage. I have thousands and thousands of photos stored on my phone and if I want to look back at a find memory I wouldn’t trawl through them all, I’d look on my Instagram. I often look at my own profile and smile at the nice pics and memories.

Less and less

It's dated now, my teens say it's more fashionable to be private now rather than be posting every detail of your life. The ones I don't understand is people who post their lives on fb but have their settings set to public, so anyone could look through, including pictures of their dc. It's so odd.

Not really because all the platforms actively stop you seeing content from friends and just push algorithmic 'recommendations' at you, thus entirely missing the point of 'social media'.

I use bluesky for general discussion and I do post some social stuff, but there's only 2 or 3 connections on there I know IRL.

I hardly ever post now. I’ve never really used Instagram anyway, I just scroll on it, Facebook I tend to just scroll through too now. I never see any updates from my friends or family even when they post. All I seem to get is crap from random pages on my feed that I have no interest in. I went through a stage of commenting on news articles etc but got fed up because people would try to start a argument with me and then had a complete weirdo start messaging me privately and it scared me a bit so I don’t do that either now. I’m actually considering deleting it all together, but I just can’t bring myself to do it!

I don’t post anymore. Social media has just gotten sad! The constant gagging on about how great one’s life is (or worse yet, the sad teary boohoo routines (e.g. Paulina Porizkova), the mind-bending filter jobs, all of it is really self-focused attention seeking and competitive. I’m bored with it.

No because the only people I care about sharing my life with are in this house already so I don't feel the need to post on social media, I only go on it out of habit now really but no one on my friends list would ever know because I haven't posted anything in years, I used to post pictures of birthdays and things but see no point anymore as the people who were there in person are the only ones I really want to show them to

Spot on with Instagram and narcissism. Only one I'm on in LinkedIn where I found a way to unfollow every contact in one go. So I just use it to check a contact, no need to see people posting humble-brags, photos of themselves, or "inspirational" quotes.

I came off Twitter & Instagram during the Pandemic, too much disinformation and angry nutters and I didn’t even post myself. I was on FB but deactivated my account this week although I haven’t posted for a couple of years. Thinking of deleting my account. It’s all advertising, content creation and so many fake AI photos/posts, nothing is actually real anymore. Constant suggested posts/groups totally frazzles my brain, it’s like online junk mail! Also I find I read more and am not on my iPhone half as much now. MN is the only thing I use and I have weekly breaks from that too. TBH I feel totally fatigued by all this online stuff.

I read fb (admittedly it’s mostly adverts and AI shite these days) -it does still have a place in terms of community groups so I do post in those but rarely on my own page

I used to love Twitter before the sensible people left - now I do join in the debate a bit on Bluesky

never joined Instagram

Yep. Not as much as I used to, though.

Yes on Instagram. I made jump from Facebook a couple of years ago as I felt it was becoming a clickbait news feed. I feel I can control my feed on Instagram a lot better and I've culled my followers to my closest friends and family only on private mode. I just post short snippets on the stories mainly.

I don’t post on SM. I never joined Instagram, I quit Twitter when Musk bought it and I closed my FB many years ago.

Agree that MN isn’t SM. It’s an anonymous forum & my profile here isn’t linked to my real identity because I used a burner email address to create it.

I started Facebook in my first year of uni and it’s been about 20 years since then so there is history and memories tied up in it. I can’t seem to delete it but it’s as good as dead for me. It’s not enjoyable at all anymore. I just find myself annoyed when I go on it.

I have some other social media accounts but never really got into them. MN or YouTube is where I end up on when I have some time to waste.

I don’t use Instagram , Facebook or Twitter .
I only post on MN
I would only consider using Instagram if I had a business to advertise

I’m 40, haven’t posted anything on Facebook for about 10 years. Didn’t use it for years but then started outdoor swimming and the group only have a Facebook page where they post special events, updates about the weather conditions and water temperature etc, so I probably use it once a week for that.

Other than that I have IG which I look at daily but my last post on there for over 2 years ago.

it’s a weird one for sure, social media in general, it’s a time sap and my algorithm is showing me lots of positive happy things for a change which is nice at least 😂
I think in the new year I may delete it for January and see how I get on.

Recently started looking at Facebook again so that I could sell some furniture on marketplace.

It's totally changed. It's not social in any sense anymore, none of my friends post anything on it, or if they do, it doesn't come up. As other have said it's all influencers and adverts.

I was an early adopter of social media. Still post on Instagram all the time and moved from Twitter to BlueSky. Don't post that much on Facebook but I do have plenty of friends on there and I read/comment on their posts.

I never really understand why Mumsnet gets so riled about social media and annoyed by what their friends post etc. Nobody's obliged to use it.

I deleted Facebook twitter and insta when I escaped dv. Still have insta but no pics at all on it and only use it to doom scroll reels tbh. I’m 40 and the only stuff people I know seem to post is a bit try hard or related to their work. I feel like it has morphed into something else now rather than connecting people

I’ve come off instagram. An absolute cringe fest of willy waving and perfectly curated lives. I don’t miss it.

MN isn’t SM. It’s an anonymous forum & my profile here isn’t linked to my real identity because I used a burner email address to create it

Linking to your real identity isn't what makes something 'social media', though. Plenty of people on Twitter and Instagram are also anonymous and use burner emails.

Mumsnet and other discussion forums are absolutely a form of social media. Mumsnet is essentially just Reddit for a specific demographic. Whether or not one reveals one's identity is neither here nor there. If a platform enables you to talk about things with people online and engage in discussion with them, it's social media whether you're anonymous or not.

I’ve stopped engaging with the local community Facebook pages too.

It was the realisation that I was actively putting myself out there to potentially engage with some deeply unpleasant local people who thought it was perfectly fine to write the most awful stuff online, but were too scared to say it to my face. I just don’t bother anymore; I read, I consume but I choose not to engage.