As seniors we have a perspective about technology that people born after the mid-1990’s don’t have. We were blessed to have lived life in the “pre-technology/social media” era. Now as seniors, we get to experience the benefit of “connectivity” and an “information source” that technology offers. I’ll get to that in a moment.
Let’s stroll down memory lane for a moment. As kids growing up in the 40’s. 50’s, and early 60’s, we were blessed to enjoy the best things childhood had to offer. First of all, we got to use our imaginations to the max. We played with our friends outside! Our toys were simple, and often times made from ordinary objects. We were active – no video games, cell phones, computers…just real-life interactions with others, face-to-face. How many kids today would even know how to play “kick the can?” The only kicking of the can done today is by Congress kicking our budget can down the road!
Family time was a big part of our rearing. Before televisions came into our living rooms, we listened to shows on the radio and got our news from the newspaper. Fast-food restaurants were a rarity, as home-cooked meals were shared as a family. By the way, marriage was between a man and a woman. We had the responsibility of doing chores around the house in order to earn an allowance. What a concept, learning how to properly handle money – earning, budgeting, saving, and not over-spending! It’s funny that so many members of Congress grew up in this era, but forgot this life lesson of economics.
We learned about consequences for our decisions and actions. We were disciplined by our own parents, teachers, and sometimes from other adults in town. Expectations were clearly defined, as were the repercussions when we failed to meet those. By the way, these weren’t based on race, gender, or any other social marker, as is so prevalent today. We long for the days when accountability was enforced, especially when it comes to crime. It is cause and effect thinking – it’s just common sense!
As we matured into our current age, we have seen amazing advances in communication, entertainment, work methods, information/news gathering, and connecting with family and friends. Technology/social media has provided a means to be engaged in and connected with what’s going on in the world, as well as our circle of friends and family. And, instead of doing risky and ridiculous stunts like many do on TikTok, we can use these platforms to make new friends, and share and learn about different viewpoints, and gather actual facts. We can even open new avenues for sharing our faith, offer encouragement and spiritual guidance. We can benefit from technology because we have the foundation of a pre-technology perspective.
“Just as iron sharpens iron, a person sharpens the character of his friend.” Proverbs 27:17
Jerry
8 months ago
I am 81 years old and have no problem at all with the technology. I consider social media platforms to be a total waste of time and far too invasive. I have many other things to do that are both satisfying and important, especially interacting with friends and family who are close to me. For those more geographically distant there are email, texting and phones.
Larue
8 months ago
Interesting that the Chinese Communist came up with the name Tik Tok. They know time is running out on us unless we fix this disaster running our government right now⏳????
Marty M
8 months ago
Pretty sure no one cares what I think about anything, I have two bumper stickers on my car: “Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life” and another “Never vote blue no matter who!” (because the democrats are the anti-God party, instead they worship baal) inspired by another AMAC member. But most drivers go by so quickly 20 to 30 MPH over the speed limit, so fast I’m sure they never would have time enough to read them, nobody has flipped me off, figured if they did, I would just bless myself with the sign of the cross. So in the future I think I will limit myself to commiserating with the choir instead!
CURIOUS CAT
8 months ago
Social media is over used and not truthful in many instances. This is in my opinion a mind bending tool to share disinformation and create many nonthinking young people as well as others who can be mislead easily. History is being eliminated or changed to fit a new narrative. These changes create mindless individuals who in turn support causes without full knowledge of what is actually true. Common sense is being erased as well as integrity, moral standards through indoctrination from social media.
buryn
8 months ago
> seniors and technology don’t mix
Not true with me, been, and still am, a software engineer for 40 years. Social media is a waste of time. Closed Facebook years ago. Signed up for Twitter after Musk bought it, haven’t seen anything of value on there since (and it’s better than it was).
KittyHawk2
8 months ago
I chose “Other.” Years ago, when FB first came out, I decided not to use it. I was suspicious of who might use my personal information at some point down the line. Due to government censorship and monitoring of social media sites, I feel vindicated in my decision. To this day, I do not “tweet,” use “X,” or have an account on any site. I use email, the phone, or text messaging to communicate with friends and relatives, and that works for me. However, I do use the internet a lot for news, purchasing items, and finding other information. Again, I do not use Google, but use an alternate platform for privacy. Although I have nothing to hide from prying eyes, I cherish my privacy and Constitutional right to that privacy.
BobA
8 months ago
BAN TIKTOK!
gary hallas
8 months ago
its like everything else in life. Need to separate the good from the bad. If you can do that, then it is a good tool to use.
Sherri
8 months ago
As a senior I credit myself with having learned a lot about technology even in just the last 5 years. However I would like to make the point that your poll question neglects to consider recent changes in social media participation of not only seniors but of the general American public. Just 3 years ago I was engaging in social media daily, both in conversations and following the news, and now I have withdrawn almost entirely from those platforms. The “news” media has revealed itself as wholly disingenuous, if not nefarious at its core, while social media discourse has become only oppositional, subjective, “triggered,” and fractured. Those developments in combination with the advent of algorithms designed to target conservatives have served as effective precursors to my exit from the social media playground.
Leslie Kendle
8 months ago
I quit social media 2 years ago for political reasons. I couldn’t keep my mouth shut so I decided to delete my facebook account before they put me back in Facebook prison! I don’t really miss it.
Garyk
8 months ago
Social media may just be the single most devastating development of today’s world.
The connection it provides for communication,information and connection to others is instant,simple and truly an amazing invention.
However there are numerous negatives including limited personal interaction , anonymous disconnection from responsible,moral and accountable speech and access to disturbing behavior, practices,scams,criminal and predatory activities.
Social media can be a tool to connect,inform and discover but it may offer more negatives than positives.
My preference is face to face interaction and communication because it also provides a true sense of the honesty and sincerity behind the words.
Looking into another person’s eyes and seeing facial expressions is also communication and makes people accountable for their words and comments.
AZNick
8 months ago
I chose “other”. I use it everyday, but the world would be better off without it.
Robin
8 months ago
I used to be on Facebook. I quit it because I was tired of being in “facebook Jail” for posting my Conservative RIGHT thinking TRUMP loyal thoughts & for being told my ANTI-COVID death shot were all terrorist propaganda. We all know the whole plandemic was germ warfare-My blood pressure lowered bunches once I dumped the demorats WRONG thinking junk site. My peeps know to call me if they need me.
Jim
8 months ago
I don’t use it at all, too many reasons to list, have seen people become addicted to it. Facebook is a cesspool, look at the guy who invented it.
J. Proctor
8 months ago
I used to use Facebook until I realized how much information about myself was ending up potentially accessible to people that I didn’t want accessing it. I do not trust social media at all now and will never use it.
Al Smith
8 months ago
So some years ago just after Zuckybucks started Facebook my kids urged me to sign up. I did. Not long after I was notified that someone had written on my wall. Had no idea what that might mean but didn’t want anyone writing on MY wall so I quit Facebook then and there. I’ve never looked back. My wife is on Facebook and uses it to stay in touch with the kids. So I suppose it’s an OK thing if one can deal with the censorship and can stomach Zuckybucks interfering with our past election
ButchDG
8 months ago
Dislike it. It’s a waste of time. I can be doing other more creative productive things with my life and time, than arguing with people through a stupid computer platform.
Susyn K.
8 months ago
I used to be on almost every social media platform. I no longer use any. I left over three years ago. I missed them for about a week, after that the only time I think about it is when someone asks if I saw something on FB, IG, etc.
J Van Horn
8 months ago
I’m pretty tech savvy, have worked with electronics and computers for years. I just don’t use social media. I don’t have a Facebook or twitter account because I think they are both sewers.
Roger Wiley
8 months ago
I limit social media use. There are far too many vulnerabilities. I am on only one platform.
JIM WOOD
8 months ago
Social media is a mixed bag. On one hand for myself, I find it easy to utilize and stay in touch with family and However, it causes major problems with the younger generation, who spend way too much time wasting their lives away and developing no social skills, as they jack around on it all day. The anti Israel demonstrations, are caused by people who have no social skills, nor the ability to think for themselves, they just see a post to demonstrate and then turn it into dangerous and hateful event, while they spew their idiotic ideas. We are in dangerous times, but the younger generation has no clue of what their actions will do. That being said, social media is here to stay and can be a tool for good or evil. Your choice.
BobA
8 months ago
What are folks doing right now if they don’t use social media? Am I confused or is answering this poll not social media? My hometown has a Facebook page and friends I haven’t seen in 50 years are on it, great reminiscing and reconnecting, with photos included. Some have changed so much that I wouldn’t recognize them if I passed them on the street. Use social media intelligently and it can be very useful.
Joanne
8 months ago
Amac keeps me up to date on things informed is forewarned love the newsletter and use some recommended sites. Keep it up love it.
Michael Spies
8 months ago
i use social media on a daily basis. I mainly use it to keep up with family and friends. I do not trust the news reporting in most cases, am highly irritated by the advertising on it and can see how some people become addicted to it. I was a computer techie during my working life, but now not so much.
Joe
8 months ago
I used Facebook for exactly 2 days and inactivated my account…. You can’t delete it…The drawbacks far outweigh the advantages as far as I’m concerned…It’s aided way too much the fracturing of our society…very little in the way of redeeming qualities… I have grandchildren who have practically no idea what a book is… and with the dreck that’s being published today…again very little of redeeming value.. Everything has an agenda to push… and much of it race, sex or gender based…It’s disgusting the way the culture has almost completely lost its moral compass…The news media generally skewed left.. history is rewritten… and very little of any value is being taught… I’ve almost completely lost any respect for any of the institutions of higher learning in this country… Places like Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornel, Georgetown are shadows of what they used to be… Like at the protests and views they’ve tolerated, and yes encouraged over the last month+…. Social media has driven much of it…
Harry
8 months ago
Still searching for any truth from a Liberal site, no luck after many years, just like todays media.
William Dalton
8 months ago
I use social media to screw & annoy liberals & the Facebook clowns
Robert E Drewett
8 months ago
I’m on 1 platform, mostly for musician friends and related info. I still play in a classic frock band. Am also from a HUGE family. Like seeing info of my relatives growning families and kids. My immediate fam is 10 kids, 37 grands, neices n nephews out the ying yang. IF any so-called friends post what I consider toxic or outrageous, I simply delete them. (most aren’t really friends anyway, but aquaintances). I’m 72, have lived alone for 15 yrs, and it’s also therapeutic company at times.
IE: I use it as I see fit, it’s still a free country, right…well, at least for now!
Ronald
8 months ago
Lets face facts 99.9% of everything on facebook is babbling nonsense. I was on facebook for three weeks that is all the longer it took me to figure it out. Face book and Z can become and addiction I personally know friends who sit and mindlessly scroll for hours reading this nonsense. The way I see it if someone wants to be your friend they will come visit not just send you likes on a machine.
Leslie Kendle
8 months ago
I’m 64 and had a facebook account for years. Deleted it 3 years ago for purely political reasons and I got tired of all the hate. I tried Truth Social but didn’t really care for it. So I am social media free and I don’t miss it!
EveE
8 months ago
I don’t use social media because it supports anti-American liberals who censor free speech if you’re not a liberal. It’s destructive, especially to young people.
I don’t buy the BS about “..oh, we just use to post pictures and keep up with our families..”
If someone wants to communicate with me or even a group of people including me, there’s plenty ways to do so (email, group email, text, video chats, etc). Most people who are addicted to social media are egomaniacs.
I would sign up on X (or any non-liberal social media) just as a show of support for free speech and conservatism) but have no desire to communicate that way.
TomSJr
8 months ago
I am a retired I.T. Administrator and Specialist who worked in SECURITY, specifically in banking. Trust me when I tell you this, THERE IS NOTHING GOOD ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA because it does NOT belong to righteous people. Not even Elon Musk is righteous so GET OFF OF ALL SOCIAL MEDIA. Get back to face to face conversations and/or phoning your friends and family. Better yet, GO SEE THEM.
The unrighteous people take everything good and ruin it. THAT IS WHAT SATAN’S GOAL IS, to ruin and destroy everything, including people, that GOD HAS MADE. I have seen it first-hand. I have witnessed the corruption that was ignored by good people in some of the companies I worked in, the devious plan some companies used to target their customers. It sickened me and it is getting much worse than you even know.
All this technology is/will be used against you whether it be in sales, robocalls, finding out who you are, what you buy, what you sell and who you vote for. IT WILL NEVER WORK FOR YOU. It will always work against you because THAT IS HOW THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY and money to the unrighteous, is holy.
Every comment and conversation you have, is being STORED in a Govt database and eventually, it WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU if you do not conform to the NEW WORLD ORDER. Call me what you want, but we all see the signs.
DO NOT BE FOOLED and don’t risk your family’s security over it. As an Administrator, I had to KNOW hacking skills as it was the only way to know what hackers were doing when they infiltrated banking servers. So, I am a WHITE HAT HACKER. I have defeated MANY, MANY HACKS. But, they are now SO SOPHISTICATED AND ADVANCED, I cannot keep up with it anymore and I am in my late 70s, still in great health, but TIRED OF ALL THE EVIL.
GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA. DELETE YOUR ACCOUNTS. IT IS SATAN’S WAY OF ENTRAPMENT. You just don’t know it……..YET.
RonC
8 months ago
I have zero interest in social media. I hold a high level technical position in the digital world and I am technically somewhat ahead of the curve, but I do not find a need for social media. I have never had a facebook or twitter account. I was on linkedin for a few weeks … just long enough to have discovered that it really was garbage and not at all for professionals. Of course there is pressure. Those of us in the industry are supposed to participate in social media. How else can the machers monitor our private lives? I have successfully ignored the pressure … so far anyway. I might occasionally post an anonymous comment here or on a news site. I do communicate with friends and distant family via email and a password protected web site; but my private life is mine and I do not share it with strangers. The key is anonymity. My comments on here convince me that I am not in the mainstream, and I rather like that.
Cathy
8 months ago
Since I am a retired secondary computer programming and applications teacher, I have little problem with technology. My problem with social media is that it is “fact-checked” by liberal, leftist, anti-Christian Democrats. I keep in touch with family, friends, high-school classmates and others. I enjoy quilting and plant-based eating groups. I would hate to lose that but things get worse every day. Jesus is coming soon!
Quantum73
8 months ago
It has nothing to do with “technology.” I don’t want to put my thoughts, ideas, and opinions out there for all to read and comment on–I have better uses (way better) for my time. Plus I have no desire to spend my precious time reading opinions from uneducated and uninformed fools who just want to be heard (for no good reason, often) about everything under the sun. get a life, people! I have my own life and I don’t want to hear about yours, and your unimportant, unthoughtful random stream of jibber-jabber.
Karen Schelhorn
8 months ago
I use social media to keep in touch with friends I would have lost contact with. I have reconnected with people I knew years ago. I am a senior and am disabled, I would have much less contact with others if I didn’t have social media. My children have helped me in learning to use a computer to start with. My son built my computer and if I have a computer problem he is who I turn to.
Stan d. Upnow
8 months ago
Years ago I was persuaded to open a FB acct. to keep in touch with my Tea Party colleagues. That’s all I used it for. I kept hearing from them that they had been suspended, or banned, for bogus reasons. Never happened to me until one fine day I got a notice from FB that my account was suspended. The reason? I had signed-in too fast!
Now, I’m challenged to type 20 words/minute without mistakes. So, their “reason” was total BS. Besides, is just cause to suspend one’s account? I promptly told them to cancel my account. For months afterward, they were begging me to reopen my account, saying they had saved all my information(!!) and it would be easy, just say “yes.” I said “NO!”
That singular experience soured me on all social media to this day. Got better things to do with my time, too.
Larue
8 months ago
I remember when “FaceTime” meant walking down the block to see my friends or relatives “face to face”. Now that friends and family are scattered all over the universe, I guess Facebook and the rest are what now qualifies as family reunions. “Social media can be great for shut ins but ironically also creates them.
AMC
8 months ago
I use social media to keep up with friends. NOT for news.
Fogghrn Legghrn
8 months ago
Social Media hold no fascination for me. I use it to keep in touch with my immediate family because we live in different areas of the country. For that it works well. If not for the communication with family aspect I wouldn’t use it at all.
Kevin M.
8 months ago
Todays seniors were the first to be exposed to computers (Commodores, etc.) and main frames. I had coding (BASIC, FORTRAN, etc.) classes in High School. I think we’re far ahead of our parents generation in terms of comfort with the technology.
Kelsey Alexander
8 months ago
I just don’t have time to do facebook, X, emails, etc. I’m busy managing my affairs and living my life with friends and family.
Carole Sayer
8 months ago
I wanted a combination answer. I hate FB, however I use it because my best friend moved far away and it is the major way she chooses to connect. We message back and forth probably average of 3 times a day. I use twitter now that Elon Musk has freed it from the clutches of the insane. I use my computer to search news websites of my choosing for news. In the past I was an inveterate news paper reader in the morning and TV news at night, but that has gone out the window due to the heavily biased local news stations wherever I have lived. We recently fled the communist state of Oregon to a small rural Arizona community where the population is around 3,300 and love it. None of the insanity I read about from my previous state or the rest of the country.
Cathy
8 months ago
you might have wanted the poll question to read differently. Your word usage leans me to think you are taking a poll about FB usage. I never use FB. I do use Rumble, Truth Social, etc…conservative sites where you don’t get banned for life or censored for some arbitrary comment thrown out in conversation. Maybe a poll asking about this area would give you more useful data.
Salina
8 months ago
I live in a smaller conservative town where everyone uses Facebook. I refuse to use a platform that works with the government to suppress peoples voices. I don’t understand why other people use it. I do read truth social posts which probably means I’m on a domestic terrorist watch list.
Allen A
8 months ago
My father was a design engineer of televisions and then a test engineer, for Sylvania. We had a PC as soon as they were developed. I built my own 386 PC when you could buy the components for far less than a completed unit. Dad bought the latest laptop when he was 86, several months before he died. Right now, I have 2 laptops and I recently retired from being a nuclear facility operator for the Idaho Cleanup Project at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory. Social media is not even remotely secure and apps like TikTok were developed by foreign governments specifically to gather information about the users. The people who run most of them are supporters of totalitarian government and use their positions to bully conservatives. I see no reason to give them any support or to use any of their products.
Tony
8 months ago
While working as a contractor for the Federal Government in the arena of internet security, I was advised to stay away from social media for a number of reasons: public opinion is easily manipulated by unfriendly foreign governments, content may be biased by vendor filters and statements require no citations to verify them as true or accurate. Add to that AI’s ability to create misinformation, there’s little “social” left for issues at the city level on up to international topics. Besides, it’s impossible to get social with several thousand, anonymous people. Make a phone call or write a letter… they’re a lot more social.
Randy
8 months ago
Social media are good, but GOOGLE screws it up. I need a social media network that doesn’t lay claim to my photos and doesn’t limit my “storage.”
Marie Tronnes
8 months ago
Social Media is the only way we can communicate the truth about President Trump and lies of Biden and his regime!
As seniors we have a perspective about technology that people born after the mid-1990’s don’t have. We were blessed to have lived life in the “pre-technology/social media” era. Now as seniors, we get to experience the benefit of “connectivity” and an “information source” that technology offers. I’ll get to that in a moment.
Let’s stroll down memory lane for a moment. As kids growing up in the 40’s. 50’s, and early 60’s, we were blessed to enjoy the best things childhood had to offer. First of all, we got to use our imaginations to the max. We played with our friends outside! Our toys were simple, and often times made from ordinary objects. We were active – no video games, cell phones, computers…just real-life interactions with others, face-to-face. How many kids today would even know how to play “kick the can?” The only kicking of the can done today is by Congress kicking our budget can down the road!
Family time was a big part of our rearing. Before televisions came into our living rooms, we listened to shows on the radio and got our news from the newspaper. Fast-food restaurants were a rarity, as home-cooked meals were shared as a family. By the way, marriage was between a man and a woman. We had the responsibility of doing chores around the house in order to earn an allowance. What a concept, learning how to properly handle money – earning, budgeting, saving, and not over-spending! It’s funny that so many members of Congress grew up in this era, but forgot this life lesson of economics.
We learned about consequences for our decisions and actions. We were disciplined by our own parents, teachers, and sometimes from other adults in town. Expectations were clearly defined, as were the repercussions when we failed to meet those. By the way, these weren’t based on race, gender, or any other social marker, as is so prevalent today. We long for the days when accountability was enforced, especially when it comes to crime. It is cause and effect thinking – it’s just common sense!
As we matured into our current age, we have seen amazing advances in communication, entertainment, work methods, information/news gathering, and connecting with family and friends. Technology/social media has provided a means to be engaged in and connected with what’s going on in the world, as well as our circle of friends and family. And, instead of doing risky and ridiculous stunts like many do on TikTok, we can use these platforms to make new friends, and share and learn about different viewpoints, and gather actual facts. We can even open new avenues for sharing our faith, offer encouragement and spiritual guidance. We can benefit from technology because we have the foundation of a pre-technology perspective.
“Just as iron sharpens iron, a person sharpens the character of his friend.” Proverbs 27:17
I am 81 years old and have no problem at all with the technology. I consider social media platforms to be a total waste of time and far too invasive. I have many other things to do that are both satisfying and important, especially interacting with friends and family who are close to me. For those more geographically distant there are email, texting and phones.
Interesting that the Chinese Communist came up with the name Tik Tok. They know time is running out on us unless we fix this disaster running our government right now⏳????
Pretty sure no one cares what I think about anything, I have two bumper stickers on my car: “Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life” and another “Never vote blue no matter who!” (because the democrats are the anti-God party, instead they worship baal) inspired by another AMAC member. But most drivers go by so quickly 20 to 30 MPH over the speed limit, so fast I’m sure they never would have time enough to read them, nobody has flipped me off, figured if they did, I would just bless myself with the sign of the cross. So in the future I think I will limit myself to commiserating with the choir instead!
Social media is over used and not truthful in many instances. This is in my opinion a mind bending tool to share disinformation and create many nonthinking young people as well as others who can be mislead easily. History is being eliminated or changed to fit a new narrative. These changes create mindless individuals who in turn support causes without full knowledge of what is actually true. Common sense is being erased as well as integrity, moral standards through indoctrination from social media.
> seniors and technology don’t mix
Not true with me, been, and still am, a software engineer for 40 years. Social media is a waste of time. Closed Facebook years ago. Signed up for Twitter after Musk bought it, haven’t seen anything of value on there since (and it’s better than it was).
I chose “Other.” Years ago, when FB first came out, I decided not to use it. I was suspicious of who might use my personal information at some point down the line. Due to government censorship and monitoring of social media sites, I feel vindicated in my decision. To this day, I do not “tweet,” use “X,” or have an account on any site. I use email, the phone, or text messaging to communicate with friends and relatives, and that works for me. However, I do use the internet a lot for news, purchasing items, and finding other information. Again, I do not use Google, but use an alternate platform for privacy. Although I have nothing to hide from prying eyes, I cherish my privacy and Constitutional right to that privacy.
BAN TIKTOK!
its like everything else in life. Need to separate the good from the bad. If you can do that, then it is a good tool to use.
As a senior I credit myself with having learned a lot about technology even in just the last 5 years. However I would like to make the point that your poll question neglects to consider recent changes in social media participation of not only seniors but of the general American public. Just 3 years ago I was engaging in social media daily, both in conversations and following the news, and now I have withdrawn almost entirely from those platforms. The “news” media has revealed itself as wholly disingenuous, if not nefarious at its core, while social media discourse has become only oppositional, subjective, “triggered,” and fractured. Those developments in combination with the advent of algorithms designed to target conservatives have served as effective precursors to my exit from the social media playground.
I quit social media 2 years ago for political reasons. I couldn’t keep my mouth shut so I decided to delete my facebook account before they put me back in Facebook prison! I don’t really miss it.
Social media may just be the single most devastating development of today’s world.
The connection it provides for communication,information and connection to others is instant,simple and truly an amazing invention.
However there are numerous negatives including limited personal interaction , anonymous disconnection from responsible,moral and accountable speech and access to disturbing behavior, practices,scams,criminal and predatory activities.
Social media can be a tool to connect,inform and discover but it may offer more negatives than positives.
My preference is face to face interaction and communication because it also provides a true sense of the honesty and sincerity behind the words.
Looking into another person’s eyes and seeing facial expressions is also communication and makes people accountable for their words and comments.
I chose “other”. I use it everyday, but the world would be better off without it.
I used to be on Facebook. I quit it because I was tired of being in “facebook Jail” for posting my Conservative RIGHT thinking TRUMP loyal thoughts & for being told my ANTI-COVID death shot were all terrorist propaganda. We all know the whole plandemic was germ warfare-My blood pressure lowered bunches once I dumped the demorats WRONG thinking junk site. My peeps know to call me if they need me.
I don’t use it at all, too many reasons to list, have seen people become addicted to it. Facebook is a cesspool, look at the guy who invented it.
I used to use Facebook until I realized how much information about myself was ending up potentially accessible to people that I didn’t want accessing it. I do not trust social media at all now and will never use it.
So some years ago just after Zuckybucks started Facebook my kids urged me to sign up. I did. Not long after I was notified that someone had written on my wall. Had no idea what that might mean but didn’t want anyone writing on MY wall so I quit Facebook then and there. I’ve never looked back. My wife is on Facebook and uses it to stay in touch with the kids. So I suppose it’s an OK thing if one can deal with the censorship and can stomach Zuckybucks interfering with our past election
Dislike it. It’s a waste of time. I can be doing other more creative productive things with my life and time, than arguing with people through a stupid computer platform.
I used to be on almost every social media platform. I no longer use any. I left over three years ago. I missed them for about a week, after that the only time I think about it is when someone asks if I saw something on FB, IG, etc.
I’m pretty tech savvy, have worked with electronics and computers for years. I just don’t use social media. I don’t have a Facebook or twitter account because I think they are both sewers.
I limit social media use. There are far too many vulnerabilities. I am on only one platform.
Social media is a mixed bag. On one hand for myself, I find it easy to utilize and stay in touch with family and However, it causes major problems with the younger generation, who spend way too much time wasting their lives away and developing no social skills, as they jack around on it all day. The anti Israel demonstrations, are caused by people who have no social skills, nor the ability to think for themselves, they just see a post to demonstrate and then turn it into dangerous and hateful event, while they spew their idiotic ideas. We are in dangerous times, but the younger generation has no clue of what their actions will do. That being said, social media is here to stay and can be a tool for good or evil. Your choice.
What are folks doing right now if they don’t use social media? Am I confused or is answering this poll not social media? My hometown has a Facebook page and friends I haven’t seen in 50 years are on it, great reminiscing and reconnecting, with photos included. Some have changed so much that I wouldn’t recognize them if I passed them on the street. Use social media intelligently and it can be very useful.
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i use social media on a daily basis. I mainly use it to keep up with family and friends. I do not trust the news reporting in most cases, am highly irritated by the advertising on it and can see how some people become addicted to it. I was a computer techie during my working life, but now not so much.
I used Facebook for exactly 2 days and inactivated my account…. You can’t delete it…The drawbacks far outweigh the advantages as far as I’m concerned…It’s aided way too much the fracturing of our society…very little in the way of redeeming qualities… I have grandchildren who have practically no idea what a book is… and with the dreck that’s being published today…again very little of redeeming value.. Everything has an agenda to push… and much of it race, sex or gender based…It’s disgusting the way the culture has almost completely lost its moral compass…The news media generally skewed left.. history is rewritten… and very little of any value is being taught… I’ve almost completely lost any respect for any of the institutions of higher learning in this country… Places like Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornel, Georgetown are shadows of what they used to be… Like at the protests and views they’ve tolerated, and yes encouraged over the last month+…. Social media has driven much of it…
Still searching for any truth from a Liberal site, no luck after many years, just like todays media.
I use social media to screw & annoy liberals & the Facebook clowns
I’m on 1 platform, mostly for musician friends and related info. I still play in a classic frock band. Am also from a HUGE family. Like seeing info of my relatives growning families and kids. My immediate fam is 10 kids, 37 grands, neices n nephews out the ying yang. IF any so-called friends post what I consider toxic or outrageous, I simply delete them. (most aren’t really friends anyway, but aquaintances). I’m 72, have lived alone for 15 yrs, and it’s also therapeutic company at times.
IE: I use it as I see fit, it’s still a free country, right…well, at least for now!
Lets face facts 99.9% of everything on facebook is babbling nonsense. I was on facebook for three weeks that is all the longer it took me to figure it out. Face book and Z can become and addiction I personally know friends who sit and mindlessly scroll for hours reading this nonsense. The way I see it if someone wants to be your friend they will come visit not just send you likes on a machine.
I’m 64 and had a facebook account for years. Deleted it 3 years ago for purely political reasons and I got tired of all the hate. I tried Truth Social but didn’t really care for it. So I am social media free and I don’t miss it!
I don’t use social media because it supports anti-American liberals who censor free speech if you’re not a liberal. It’s destructive, especially to young people.
I don’t buy the BS about “..oh, we just use to post pictures and keep up with our families..”
If someone wants to communicate with me or even a group of people including me, there’s plenty ways to do so (email, group email, text, video chats, etc). Most people who are addicted to social media are egomaniacs.
I would sign up on X (or any non-liberal social media) just as a show of support for free speech and conservatism) but have no desire to communicate that way.
I am a retired I.T. Administrator and Specialist who worked in SECURITY, specifically in banking. Trust me when I tell you this, THERE IS NOTHING GOOD ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA because it does NOT belong to righteous people. Not even Elon Musk is righteous so GET OFF OF ALL SOCIAL MEDIA. Get back to face to face conversations and/or phoning your friends and family. Better yet, GO SEE THEM.
The unrighteous people take everything good and ruin it. THAT IS WHAT SATAN’S GOAL IS, to ruin and destroy everything, including people, that GOD HAS MADE. I have seen it first-hand. I have witnessed the corruption that was ignored by good people in some of the companies I worked in, the devious plan some companies used to target their customers. It sickened me and it is getting much worse than you even know.
All this technology is/will be used against you whether it be in sales, robocalls, finding out who you are, what you buy, what you sell and who you vote for. IT WILL NEVER WORK FOR YOU. It will always work against you because THAT IS HOW THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY and money to the unrighteous, is holy.
Every comment and conversation you have, is being STORED in a Govt database and eventually, it WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU if you do not conform to the NEW WORLD ORDER. Call me what you want, but we all see the signs.
DO NOT BE FOOLED and don’t risk your family’s security over it. As an Administrator, I had to KNOW hacking skills as it was the only way to know what hackers were doing when they infiltrated banking servers. So, I am a WHITE HAT HACKER. I have defeated MANY, MANY HACKS. But, they are now SO SOPHISTICATED AND ADVANCED, I cannot keep up with it anymore and I am in my late 70s, still in great health, but TIRED OF ALL THE EVIL.
GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA. DELETE YOUR ACCOUNTS. IT IS SATAN’S WAY OF ENTRAPMENT. You just don’t know it……..YET.
I have zero interest in social media. I hold a high level technical position in the digital world and I am technically somewhat ahead of the curve, but I do not find a need for social media. I have never had a facebook or twitter account. I was on linkedin for a few weeks … just long enough to have discovered that it really was garbage and not at all for professionals. Of course there is pressure. Those of us in the industry are supposed to participate in social media. How else can the machers monitor our private lives? I have successfully ignored the pressure … so far anyway. I might occasionally post an anonymous comment here or on a news site. I do communicate with friends and distant family via email and a password protected web site; but my private life is mine and I do not share it with strangers. The key is anonymity. My comments on here convince me that I am not in the mainstream, and I rather like that.
Since I am a retired secondary computer programming and applications teacher, I have little problem with technology. My problem with social media is that it is “fact-checked” by liberal, leftist, anti-Christian Democrats. I keep in touch with family, friends, high-school classmates and others. I enjoy quilting and plant-based eating groups. I would hate to lose that but things get worse every day. Jesus is coming soon!
It has nothing to do with “technology.” I don’t want to put my thoughts, ideas, and opinions out there for all to read and comment on–I have better uses (way better) for my time. Plus I have no desire to spend my precious time reading opinions from uneducated and uninformed fools who just want to be heard (for no good reason, often) about everything under the sun. get a life, people! I have my own life and I don’t want to hear about yours, and your unimportant, unthoughtful random stream of jibber-jabber.
I use social media to keep in touch with friends I would have lost contact with. I have reconnected with people I knew years ago. I am a senior and am disabled, I would have much less contact with others if I didn’t have social media. My children have helped me in learning to use a computer to start with. My son built my computer and if I have a computer problem he is who I turn to.
Years ago I was persuaded to open a FB acct. to keep in touch with my Tea Party colleagues. That’s all I used it for. I kept hearing from them that they had been suspended, or banned, for bogus reasons. Never happened to me until one fine day I got a notice from FB that my account was suspended. The reason? I had signed-in too fast!
Now, I’m challenged to type 20 words/minute without mistakes. So, their “reason” was total BS. Besides, is just cause to suspend one’s account? I promptly told them to cancel my account. For months afterward, they were begging me to reopen my account, saying they had saved all my information(!!) and it would be easy, just say “yes.” I said “NO!”
That singular experience soured me on all social media to this day. Got better things to do with my time, too.
I remember when “FaceTime” meant walking down the block to see my friends or relatives “face to face”. Now that friends and family are scattered all over the universe, I guess Facebook and the rest are what now qualifies as family reunions. “Social media can be great for shut ins but ironically also creates them.
I use social media to keep up with friends. NOT for news.
Social Media hold no fascination for me. I use it to keep in touch with my immediate family because we live in different areas of the country. For that it works well. If not for the communication with family aspect I wouldn’t use it at all.
Todays seniors were the first to be exposed to computers (Commodores, etc.) and main frames. I had coding (BASIC, FORTRAN, etc.) classes in High School. I think we’re far ahead of our parents generation in terms of comfort with the technology.
I just don’t have time to do facebook, X, emails, etc. I’m busy managing my affairs and living my life with friends and family.
I wanted a combination answer. I hate FB, however I use it because my best friend moved far away and it is the major way she chooses to connect. We message back and forth probably average of 3 times a day. I use twitter now that Elon Musk has freed it from the clutches of the insane. I use my computer to search news websites of my choosing for news. In the past I was an inveterate news paper reader in the morning and TV news at night, but that has gone out the window due to the heavily biased local news stations wherever I have lived. We recently fled the communist state of Oregon to a small rural Arizona community where the population is around 3,300 and love it. None of the insanity I read about from my previous state or the rest of the country.
you might have wanted the poll question to read differently. Your word usage leans me to think you are taking a poll about FB usage. I never use FB. I do use Rumble, Truth Social, etc…conservative sites where you don’t get banned for life or censored for some arbitrary comment thrown out in conversation. Maybe a poll asking about this area would give you more useful data.
I live in a smaller conservative town where everyone uses Facebook. I refuse to use a platform that works with the government to suppress peoples voices. I don’t understand why other people use it. I do read truth social posts which probably means I’m on a domestic terrorist watch list.
My father was a design engineer of televisions and then a test engineer, for Sylvania. We had a PC as soon as they were developed. I built my own 386 PC when you could buy the components for far less than a completed unit. Dad bought the latest laptop when he was 86, several months before he died. Right now, I have 2 laptops and I recently retired from being a nuclear facility operator for the Idaho Cleanup Project at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory. Social media is not even remotely secure and apps like TikTok were developed by foreign governments specifically to gather information about the users. The people who run most of them are supporters of totalitarian government and use their positions to bully conservatives. I see no reason to give them any support or to use any of their products.
While working as a contractor for the Federal Government in the arena of internet security, I was advised to stay away from social media for a number of reasons: public opinion is easily manipulated by unfriendly foreign governments, content may be biased by vendor filters and statements require no citations to verify them as true or accurate. Add to that AI’s ability to create misinformation, there’s little “social” left for issues at the city level on up to international topics. Besides, it’s impossible to get social with several thousand, anonymous people. Make a phone call or write a letter… they’re a lot more social.
Social media are good, but GOOGLE screws it up. I need a social media network that doesn’t lay claim to my photos and doesn’t limit my “storage.”
Social Media is the only way we can communicate the truth about President Trump and lies of Biden and his regime!