Social Networking

[theartdyke]

You know what, Tumblr? Google Plus? I refuse. Ever. I won't do it. I will never adopt a new social network again without profound compelling evidence. I am so sick of this cycle of a new network taking over every couple of years and becoming the hot new thing, and the only reason you join is all your friends run off and join and stop posting where

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[taconaco]

Tumblr's a different thing and I wouldn't really call it a social network. More of a blog thing. Like LJ, but with more pictures. But yeah, it is pretty much pretty useless for the most part. Honestly I probably wouldn't use it as much if I didn't have so much free time at work. I've really limited my use of it at home.
I've gotten Google+ and barely done anything with it other than add a few people. I am so not into it enough to start up my whole new profile on it. I abandoned my Myspace account for this reason too. One nice thing is that Google+ has Male, Female, AND Other as gender options and it's also a whole lot easier to censor yourself (by way of "friend circles") than it is on facebook. At least, for me, the filter options were a little harder to do.
But yeah, it's all a big waste of time and it would probably do me good to not be so up-to-date on these things :P

[garyfuckingoak]

Ohmygodyes.
This is why I use mainly forums. I can't keep up with all this new stuff. Facebook is the Big Thing, and now, all of the sudden, everyone's on Tumblr. I refuse. Once FB dies, I'm not joining anything new.
And I feel you on the news thing. I was talking to my friend one day, and was freaking out that Rammstein was coming to America. "Yeah, I saw that post on your Facebook." WAY TO KILL THE CONVERSATION.
Isn't it bad, anyway, to have so many sites? I mean, if you use the same e-mail address for them all, a few years down the road, someone could find an old account and it could be full of stuff that you didn't want anyone to find. :U

[wemblee]

I'm on Tumblr and yet hate it. The LJ/DW platform is everything I want, basically, fandom-wise. :( Damn you, human nature!