Besides Senior Forums, where else do you like to be online?

JeanBrown

JeanBrown

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Hi everyone, I’ve found this forum a real help when my head feels a bit full. 🥰🥰🥰It’s comforting to talk to people who understand the family side of things.


I wondered whether any of you also spend time on other online spaces alongside Senior Forums. Do you use other forums, Facebook groups, WhatsApp chats or anything similar that feels friendly and sensible for our age group? I’m not looking for drama or endless arguments – just places where people actually listen and share.


If you’ve found any online communities that have been good for support, laughs or simply switching off for a few minutes, I’d really appreciate your suggestions.
 

JeanBrown said:
Hi everyone, I’ve found this forum a real help when my head feels a bit full. 🥰🥰🥰It’s comforting to talk to people who understand the family side of things.


I wondered whether any of you also spend time on other online spaces alongside Senior Forums. Do you use other forums, Facebook groups, WhatsApp chats or anything similar that feels friendly and sensible for our age group? I’m not looking for drama or endless arguments – just places where people actually listen and share.


If you’ve found any online communities that have been good for support, laughs or simply switching off for a few minutes, I’d really appreciate your suggestions.
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I have a few forums under my belt other than this one that I was a member of before I came here 11 years ago, and still am, but I rarely post on them.. they're british forums.. where are you ? which country ?
 
I almost never go on Facebook unless Hubs tells me there is a post I need to respond to. Many of my friends are on Facebook, but I always tell them not to expect a response from me.

Senior Forums is my place to be with online friends and post light and sometimes informative content. I've met people here who are intelligent, funny, interesting and compassionate.

Since no politics are allowed here, I'm also on a political debate forum. I tend to spend most of my time there, but these days not so much. It was more interesting before the election. Now it just reinforces some of my frustrations. I mentioned back in October that I never turned on the news when we were in Europe for 12 days. I've never been happier in recent memory. Since I have less time left these days, I choose to be happy without being oblivious.

Lately, I usually just end up watching Youtube videos until I fall asleep.
 

Not much anymore.

I’m on FB mainly to stay in touch with family but I do follow a few groups, usually for a short time and then move on to something new.

I used to spend quite a bit of time at Discuss Cooking - Cooking Forums but now I stop in when I need to find a recipe from an old post.

Just look around and if something seems interesting give a try for a few weeks and see if it’s a good fit for you.
 
This is mostly where I "hang out". I go on Facebook every few days, but that site has gotten to be so annoying. I only stay because there are so many family members I only get to connect with there and good online friends from 20 years ago who I want to stay connected with. A good friend of mine keeps trying to get me to join Instagram, but I've been procrastinating.
 
Over the past decade, I've joined a few forums .. but, SF is the only one that "stuck".
Because my ex has tinnitus, I once was a mod in that forum - but, no more.
I have a Facebook account, but rarely look in there.

edit to add ..
I look at dogs on Instagram every morning, to start my day with a smile.
 
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I don’t belong to The Book of Faces or any other social media places of garbage.

I do belong to a few horse forums because I have had horses for 60+ years and I actually learn more there, than anywhere else, about real life. Although the winds are changing on those forums thanks to so many young people with a much different mindset than us long timers.
 
Instagram for funny short movies with funny comments, Facebook with some family members. Most don't post much except one cousin. He makes great photographs every day. And I get funny and interesting stuff there. Blocked all the negativity. I used to be in a Dutch Facebook group until a guy picked a fight, so I left. I've been on a lot of christian forums, Dutch, English, they're all horrible.

The Dutch one had a funny moderator called Henkie. People would go fight and ask for the other one to get a ban or punishment and then Henkie said: Hello you are adults. Not a bunch of small children that I have to watch. I had to go bicycling. Hahaha and then he just removed the whole conversation and said: off topic! All the friendly people left because of the stupid fights. Then I was on Gabfest forum which was fun, but it stopped and the members went to senior forums.
 
I'm a member of several music forums and ocean liner forums. I also enjoy the r/TwilightZone and r/oceanlinerporn subreddits. I find Reddit overall to be very unappealing, but there are a few good groups, with intelligent, respectful, fun members. Those are two of them.

I've never used Facebook and, for personal reasons, tend to avoid Instagram.
 
seadoug said:
Senior Forums is my place to be with online friends and post light and sometimes informative content. I've met people here who are intelligent, funny, interesting and compassionate.
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Yes, I reviewed one other senior forums site and didn't like it. Came here and didn't investigate any others.

Dr.Colosso said:
Instagram for funny short movies with funny comments,
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I really enjoy Insta's creativity reels and posts. I don't care for it being owned by Meta/FB.

KSav said:
I find Reddit overall to be very unappealing, but there are a few good groups, with intelligent, respectful, fun members.
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😄 Yes, pretty unappealing like Twitter/X became to me. This is my 2nd go-round with Reddit. Think I've had 3-4 go-rounds with T/X. Not there now.
 
I'm on a sort of forum for people with PMR or GCA in the UK. I get a daily download of posts, usually around a dozen or so, that the moderators decide are interesting enough for us all to read and comment on. Other than that, I was on FB, till they put me in FB prison, and I've decided I can't be bothered to try and break out of it.

That just leaves SF, along with a couple of other actual forums. Hip Forums and Yoda's Hideaway, both of which I found to be inviting and interesting for quite a while, especially the poetry sub forums, although for the last few years things have gone down hill somewhat.

So now I spend most of my forum time on here, but otherwise the real world traps me in inanity on a daily basis, when I do cooking, washing up, laundry, shopping, etc. Then in the evenings I prefer to let my TV do the talking with mainly documentaries about aliens, or murder mysteries. My favourite MMs at the moment are reruns of Midsomer Murders and Lewis, and a new one called Cooper and Fry.

I sometimes get caught up in YT videos, but try to keep away from them as much as possible, or whole days will disappear down the plug hole before I've even realised it. Even though I have some of my own music and microlight videos up on there, although I've noticed that no-one ever watches them. :-(
 
I've tried Facebook and Reddit, but there's no sense of community in either of those. I prefer these old style forums where you kind of get to know people. SFs is really the only social media site I go to these days. I look at a lot of YouTube videos, but I don't really consider that "social" media; it's just media.

That said, my wife has been watching fireplace videos on YouTube, and now my YouTube video feed is almost nothing but fireplace videos! I'm going to have to give her a separate account.
 
Am not on any post-smartphone social media sites. A decision, that has isolated my mind from its pollution. Other web sites I frequent are outdoor activity groups I participate in, though none are general like SF.

A major online visited web category, with 76% use in the USA, are video game websites. And specifically since such is by far in the USA, the statistical most dominant use of the Internet for many, though few will publically admit such though it needs to be noted, 78% of men watch web pornography, 44% of women watch web pornography, and 73% of teens have consumed web pornography. A prime reason Australia to their credit, just became the first nation to ban social media for those younger than 16. Neither of the two above I ever visit.
 

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