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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 658049" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I don't even begin to understand the attractions of facebook, or of other social media. I do use fb to stay in touch with a few people. I friend very few people but I do message people and chat once in a while. It is nice to contact people I hadn't seen/heard from in years, but it isn't especially important to me. </p><p></p><p>Mostly I get annoyed by it. I am just not so interesting that all those people have any real interest in what I think/say/do. I completely am disinterested in the games, in the scams and in the online chain letter type things. I really loathe the way many people use it to try to shove their religion down my throat (various people who only want to contact me in group messages when they want to sell me their religion or some fundraiser junk to support their religion or their fondness for overpriced candles, baskets or whatever). I have found fb useful to identify the true friends from those who are only interested in me when they have a cause or a religion to sell to me. They only contact me then and never even reply to individual messages or attempt to contact me in any other way. </p><p></p><p>I don't post esp because of family. A few yrs ago gfgbro used info he got from other people on fb to try to have CPS all over us. He has also used it to stalk me and mine. I don't friend the various relatives mostly because I have no real common interests with them other than blood. I wasn't interesting enough to contact or see when I lived five min away, why would I be interested in online contact? </p><p></p><p>I also loath and despise the cruel things people say over social media. If I would not say it to my grandmothers, I should not say it online. The ability to reach so many people so quickly creates mobs who post ugly and vicious things that cause real harm. I don't choose to be a part of that and social media makes it WAY too easy to do that</p><p></p><p>I am quite afraid of the predators who lurk online. My husband is oddly gullible esp online and has gotten into some real problems by oversharing with people who were not what they said they were. He even had one woman who wanted to force us to split so that she could 'have' him. All he ever did was be polite to her on an online forum. It actually scared us both because she threatened to harm me numerous times. this was about 15 yrs ago and there were no laws to regulate any of it. She hacked and got our phone number and started calling us at home, going so far as to tell my kids that she was going to be their new mommy because I was leaving and didn't want them. I was preg with thank you at the time! It all ended up being a mess and my husband was not allowed to go on message boards for quite a while. If HE could be drawn in so easily, ANYONE could ad social media makes it vastly easier now than it was back then. </p><p></p><p>I love the computer and the internet, but not social media. I think it doesn't add much to my life and I am okay with having an account but not using it much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 658049, member: 1233"] I don't even begin to understand the attractions of facebook, or of other social media. I do use fb to stay in touch with a few people. I friend very few people but I do message people and chat once in a while. It is nice to contact people I hadn't seen/heard from in years, but it isn't especially important to me. Mostly I get annoyed by it. I am just not so interesting that all those people have any real interest in what I think/say/do. I completely am disinterested in the games, in the scams and in the online chain letter type things. I really loathe the way many people use it to try to shove their religion down my throat (various people who only want to contact me in group messages when they want to sell me their religion or some fundraiser junk to support their religion or their fondness for overpriced candles, baskets or whatever). I have found fb useful to identify the true friends from those who are only interested in me when they have a cause or a religion to sell to me. They only contact me then and never even reply to individual messages or attempt to contact me in any other way. I don't post esp because of family. A few yrs ago gfgbro used info he got from other people on fb to try to have CPS all over us. He has also used it to stalk me and mine. I don't friend the various relatives mostly because I have no real common interests with them other than blood. I wasn't interesting enough to contact or see when I lived five min away, why would I be interested in online contact? I also loath and despise the cruel things people say over social media. If I would not say it to my grandmothers, I should not say it online. The ability to reach so many people so quickly creates mobs who post ugly and vicious things that cause real harm. I don't choose to be a part of that and social media makes it WAY too easy to do that I am quite afraid of the predators who lurk online. My husband is oddly gullible esp online and has gotten into some real problems by oversharing with people who were not what they said they were. He even had one woman who wanted to force us to split so that she could 'have' him. All he ever did was be polite to her on an online forum. It actually scared us both because she threatened to harm me numerous times. this was about 15 yrs ago and there were no laws to regulate any of it. She hacked and got our phone number and started calling us at home, going so far as to tell my kids that she was going to be their new mommy because I was leaving and didn't want them. I was preg with thank you at the time! It all ended up being a mess and my husband was not allowed to go on message boards for quite a while. If HE could be drawn in so easily, ANYONE could ad social media makes it vastly easier now than it was back then. I love the computer and the internet, but not social media. I think it doesn't add much to my life and I am okay with having an account but not using it much. [/QUOTE]
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