Does anyone else not do social media?

[Spoldge45]

Just exactly that really? I just wondered peoples thoughts? It sometimes feels as tho everyone is on it all the time.

Personally I have FB account but that's it, but I only get to look at it once day, usually in the evening & often don't get to the end of my news feed without being interrupted by DH or DD or some task that needs attention.

I'm beginning to hate the time it steals from me, 10 years ago I would have read a book if I'd of had some spare time, but now I don't which is really sad I'm seriously thinking of giving it up & just wondered other peoples views.

I honestly have no idea how some people have time for more than one social media account, but I know many do & from what I can see of Facebook, so much of it is Ad's these anyway?

I only visit here and only started that a little while ago tbh. It’s a bit more sedate here and people talk about things that actually matter which is nice. I’ll probably give this up too though at some point.

I’m not on anything else and have started reading entire books. It’s wonderful. I’ve not missed out on anything that I know of so I don’t care if I have. Everything is much better. Not so rushed.

Tbh I think our generations have been used as a bit of an experiment where social media is concerned and it has wasted hours, days, weeks and possibly more of our lives.

Glad to leave it behind.

Thank you MakingM yes I know exactly what you mean. I often don't go on FB for several days & I don't actually miss it at all. I feel guilty that I am not doing something more proactive with my life

I worry hugely about the impact of SM on our children, but that's a whole other issue I guess!!

Take care & here's to lots of reading in the future :-)

I've taken it off my phone so I only access when I'm on the desktop but it's really clunky scrolling through the feed this way so I don't spend long on it and certainly not everyday.

I've never had a Facebook account 😁 I imagine I could get obsessive about it.

No; never done Facebook and seem to do very well without it!

I actually find mumsnet is the worst for sapping my time. must have addicted to it though as here I still am

I go on it, but only really for a few groups I’m on that have interesting posts, I bit like here really. I never post on my own Facebook/Instagram feeds, I realised long ago that whatever I post, chasing likes is not good for me. Any one who posts too much about their perfect life gets unfollowed (or whatever the Facebook equivalent is) too. I only really follow people who are funny/sarky now!

I have never had one, I'm not interested in what people I use to once know what there doing. Or look at us and my children. I like to keep things private and the ones that are close to me know what my family and me are up to...I hear the odd so and so on fb and I just think hmm. That's why I'm not on it.

Haven't had any social media for years and I'm of the generation who love the socials. Probably just as well because I'm nosey and would probably waste too much Time on it! I sometimes miss catching up with people I don't see much but the flip side of that is the people who are worth it make the effort.

I see the difference with forums like this and social media as people don't just show the good bits here and it can provide support.

Well I don't think there is an 'end' to my newsfeed. It just goes on and on. I just randomly check it sometimes, but I use it for work. I use all my social media for work which is probably how I have time for it

I was on twitter for about five years but a couple of months ago I closed my account. It's such a cess pit. Never done Facebook or Insta, I don't think any of my friends do so what would be the point. I spend all day at work on a screen, prefer to do something practical for fun in the evenings.

Only mumsnet,gave up on fb February.

I post on a few forums, but I've never had any accounts onFacebook, myspace, tumblr twitter, or any of the rest of it. I don't really get the point of them, unless you need them for professional reasons, which I don't.

No Facebook or anything similar. Just Mumsnet. I have no interest in showing my family life to the world.

I don't actually really know what I am missing as I have never been on any social media. Partly because I had a job where I had to be cautious about my public face, both to do my job properly and to protect myself and my family.

People do not realize how much trouble they can get into work wise because of imprudent things on social media. I drafted some policies about it for our workplace and was astonished at what I learned.

Nothing!!! Not even fb!!!

I am on Facebook purely to get updates from local organisations or parent groups. I don't post. Other social media scares me and I have no idea how people seem to spend so much time on it. I occassionally have to pop onto Twitter for work and it amazes me how many times people tweet in a day. I always think they must feel so confident in their own opinion. I'm too scared of getting something wrong, or it being wrong years later and getting hauled over the coals for it.

Never done proper social media, only anonymous forums like this one.

I was at one of the universities in which Facebook was first trialled in the U.K. in 2005. I took an instant dislike and refused to join. I never thought it would end up undermining global democracy, though I do feel somewhat vindicated.

@Dragonpox

I am on Facebook purely to get updates from local organisations or parent groups. I don't post. Other social media scares me and I have no idea how people seem to spend so much time on it. I occassionally have to pop onto Twitter for work and it amazes me how many times people tweet in a day. I always think they must feel so confident in their own opinion. I'm too scared of getting something wrong, or it being wrong years later and getting hauled over the coals for it.

I use Facebook in exactly this way. I find it absolutely invaluable as a source of info about local events etc and the children's schools and clubs have a couple of active groups which are an important channel of communication (and nothing else tbh, thankfully).

I never post myself and if someone sends me a friend request I either ignore it (if it is someone I barely know) or accept it and immediately unfollow.

This way my feed is 100% stuff I want or need to see, without any of the #makingmemories or snapshots of people's perfect lives.

It works well for me, and I have zero need or desire to get rid of it completely. I skim it a couple of times a day in much the same way that I would read the "what's on" section of a local magazine I guess.

Nothing for me, just not interested.

Happy to google stuff if I need to find out something.

I’m not into fashion andI don’t need some influencer telling me what stuff to buy. I have a mind of my own.

I can message or phone my friends. So I really don’t miss the fake world that is social media. It’s like the new version of Keeping Up With The Jones’s. Sod that.

I have mumsnet, Facebook and tiktok

Instagram doesn't appeal to me at all, I only use my Facebook to keep up with people I haven't seen for a while and tiktok I caved in during lockdown 1

Instagram doesn't appeal to me, I don't need someone who makes £5k from one dress pic telling me how inferior I am for wearing Nike trainers opposed to balenciaga ones

I don’t do social media either. Within a minute or two I have FOMO and become really insecure about my life. Don’t need that! If I want to discuss current affairs I can come on Mumsnet.

I don't do social media. Closed all my accounts as it made me unhappy and anxious.

Easy to get into "compare and despair" territory as people only post the good stuff. People talking about how amazing their partner is then they split up a week later. Just so fake!!

I also don't want people to know much about my life! The people who actually speak to me know what I choose to tell them.

I'd hate it if everyone I ever knew, all my colleagues etc knew what I was up to all the time.

But then I am the sort of person who enjoys secrets and anonymity. I like to have secrets that no one else in the world knows that I hug to myself. Not even important stuff. Just little things.

I don't do social media. Closed all my accounts as it made me unhappy and anxious

I closed all my accounts over a year ago for the same reason. I thought i'd have downloaded them again within the month, but I never looked back and don't miss them. I do have Instagram, but I only use it to follow things I enjoy, and have no personal contacts on there.

Got a FB account but haven’t been on it for months, as I feel like I’m wasting my life away when I’m on it.
We’re private people and couldn’t care less about what randoms are doing.
I occasionally repost DP’s business posts.
I keep in contact with family and friends via messaging, phone and face-to face meet ups.

I have a linkedin account for work, but nothing personal goes on there. Nothing else unless you count Mumsnet.

My sis is on FB constantly and I find it a bit cringeworthy. Why do we need to know what she is doing all the time, or see the latest photo of her grandson. It all feels a bit self indulgent for me.