Social Media V Online Forums

Like me, Ronni, we are on there sporadically.. I do have to check out my groups and I am a gamer as well. I play cribbage, uno, and a bit of poker, so that will occupy my time there. I chat with my nieces and check my daughter in law's memorial page for any posts. My son is so busy he doesn't have time to be on there but very rarely. I do have friends all over I keep up with as well, but they are getting fewer and fewer. My homepage may show over 300 friends, but so many were from former games. I don't really know them at all and when I've attempted to delete them, they simply request my friendship all over again, so I label them acquaintances to keep my news feed as uncluttered as possible.
 

On social media you open yourself up to every living human being on the entire, and all too great a portion of them you do not want to deal with. I stick to forums since you can limit your contact to people you have something in common with.
 
Lewkat said:
Like me, Ronni, we are on there sporadically.. I do have to check out my groups and I am a gamer as well. I play cribbage, uno, and a bit of poker, so that will occupy my time there. I chat with my nieces and check my daughter in law's memorial page for any posts. My son is so busy he doesn't have time to be on there but very rarely. I do have friends all over I keep up with as well, but they are getting fewer and fewer. My homepage may show over 300 friends, but so many were from former games. I don't really know them at all and when I've attempted to delete them, they simply request my friendship all over again, so I label them acquaintances to keep my news feed as uncluttered as possible.
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If you've deleted them due to not being interested then why friend them again and make them acquaintance? Just decline their friends request. If they persist with friends request then block them.
 

Since facebook has made changes I rarely go in there anymore. I had joined to keep in touch with family members years ago and play some games on there. Now with the changes, I don't care for it at all and they are even supposed to be removing the game section. I guess they won't see me anymore. I spend most of my time in here anyway.
 
Becky1951 said:
If you've deleted them due to not being interested then why friend them again and make them acquaintance? Just decline their friends request. If they persist with friends request then block them.
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You are right Becky, it just feels mean not to accept them again. I don't know as I rarely if ever connect with them. Evidently they do read my posts. Some are in my groups, so I will not remove them.
 
I'm still on Facebook several times a day but many of the friends I used to follow don't really use it much any more. There are still lots of groups that I follow along with musicians and musical groups because I see things they post more quickly than I learn about it from other sources (if at all.) I also like the posts from news organizations which allow me to see a quick description of a story and choose whether or not to explore it further.

I've never seen Facebook as anything other than a place to post information, read information and react to information. I rarely see meaningful conversations that last more than about three posts in each direction. It just isn't made for easy conversations.

I've been using forums since the mid to late 80's and love the conversational aspects of them and the more back and forth exchange of information. I think the forum software used by SeniorForums is the best I've seen since the 80's when I was using an internal company forum that was even than this one at being able to keep conversation threads more easily connected.
 
A while back I went back on Facebook. I'm under an alias there and just hangin with myself. It's less complicated. They've updated the game section because that flash stuff is no longer going to be supported in 2021. The new games suck and the experience is pretty much ruined for me. I have a couple of support groups I'm currently in. That's about it.
 

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