I used to twitter. Steam's probably the closest to social media i'm on now. Unfortunately my habit of uploading screenshots costed me some friends 🙁

IRC

quakenet #GOG
freenode #DOSBox

That's all I use for "social media" unless you count email or forums.

leileilol wrote:

Unfortunately my habit of uploading screenshots costed me some friends 🙁

Why is that ?
Did you overdo it? 😁

Haven't used IRC in ages, does #GOG have a lot of online users?

51 people on right now on #GOG
56 on #DOSBOX

That's pretty cool, I might download mIRC again and come online for a chat 😁

I'm on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RFNagel , and Steam at http://steamcommunity.com/id/RichNagel .

I have had a computer forever and also have a smart phone but I do not do any form of social networking. But like leileilol, I am always on Steam weather I'm playing or not. You can find me under the VOGONS community.

i use IRC to leech of stuff.

bushwack wrote:

You can find me under the VOGONS community.

The wha?

*opens steam*

Social networking gives me the creeps. Literally... opened a facebook account years ago, and I could count on both hands the times I've logged on since then. It's like some nameless, unpseakable perversion of the internet that should never have happened.

what i don't like from facebook is their url-tracking.

Which pretty much any sites who recieve payment from facebook will report what url you visited on their sites to facebook server, similar to google analytics which i also hates.

So, I block any access using proxomitron,
and add the facebook https' certificate into Un-Trusted publisher list on every browsers in my computer.

steam... STEAM... STEAAAMM!!! I HATE STEAM!!! D:
I WISH EA WOULD BUY VALVE AND THE RESULTING MONSTROSITY WOULD SELF DESTRUCT FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND!!!

sry about the caps, i had to vent some steam.

Wow. Do you all wear tinfoil hats? And how can anyone hate steam?

I do forums a lot, and some Steam chatting occasionally, but Facebook (et al) is just not for me. I am in the VOGONS Steam group. But I really don't do much online gaming so I'm rarely logged into Steam chat.

VOGONS IRC would be interesting. VOGONS video conference retro experimentation is what we need 🤣

Yep, facebook and so on is not for me too. I tried it, but soon got put off by reading the friends of friends complaining about how many times they got constipated in that week, or what they just had for dinner, or that they accidentally got their mouth slashed while crunching on a crab.

Mostly the teens are crazy about all this stuff, but I have seen my middle-aged staff going googoo-gaga over it too.

I almost cringe nowadays when local newspapers write how many people "liked" the article..or that so many have "condemned such and such in fb and that there have been so so many followers"....

I also hang around forums alot. They have the advantage of bringing people with a given interest group together and they are persistent and searchable. Unlike other social medias, when you write information or something useful in a forum it can then be found and help anyone who is looking for it. I found so much valuable info by reading forums. Therefore i think forums are the best social media for the geeky types.

I do have a FB account but i spend more time on forums.

Sometimes I have to smile of some users on this forum. This thread kind of reminds me of the earlier Windows 8 thread. Facebook and anything newer than Windows XP seems to be the devil of innovation for some.. 😜

I'm on everything 😀

vetz wrote:

Sometimes I have to laugh of some users on this forum. This thread kind of reminds me of the earlier Windows 8 thread. Facebook and anything newer than Windows XP seems to be the devil of innovation for some.. 😜

I'm on everything 😀

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHFnc_eV4Lg

Sometimes I have to smile of some users on this forum. This thread kind of reminds me of the earlier Windows 8 thread. Facebook and anything newer than Windows XP seems to be the devil of innovation for some..

Yeah, I'm kind of wondering about this as well. On the one hand I understand that facebook is evil in some kind of way but on the other it is great for some stuff, especially coordinating real social life through facebook and doodles but also in keeping in touch or getting back in touch with people I haven't seen in a long time.
There are also people in my friends for whom facebook and co is the devil himself. Same guys who would have killed the inventor of telephones. On their travel from Germany to some place past the US the made sure to not go via the US to not have their fingerprints recorded...

So, I'm on facebook and irc (#exult, #pentagram,#nuvie, #xu4 and #dosbox which is kind of #vogons), not much else. Forums I have left mostly behind since they no longer cater my interests. Except this one (and of course the Exult forum;))