How big of a influence is "social media" on you?

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How big of a influence is social media on what you think and say?

Does it confirm what you want to believe?

Can it change your opinion?
 
It has a minor, a very minor, influence on me.

I rarely use Facebook, Twitter, or the like. In fact I really dislike Facebook .

I do enjoy a good forum like CAF and those for various hobbies like gardening, but I avoid the political ones.

I keep a cell phone, but rarely text with the thing.
 
I would sort of second that. The only social media I am active on is this forum, and one specific sub field of electronics. I do not own a Cell phone.
 
Not very, I don’t have a Facebook, I don’t have a Twitter, Tumblr, whatever other thing they’re coming out with lately. I do have a few YouTube accounts, but that’s pretty much it. Honestly, I wish Facebook would die. I think it’s well past its prime.
 
Negligible. I avoid it most of the time. I think it can actually be harmful, much worse, say, than yoga. 🙂
 
I’m probably one of the few young adults (early twenties) in America who doesn’t have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever other social media sites are out there. I use some specific discussion forums and I use Deviantart for posting my art and Fictionpress for my stories. That’s it. I can happily report that it has made no difference in my life being disconnected from social media. 🙂
 
You know, I have an email account, I don’t really need any of that stuff.
 
Well, I use Facebook a tiny bit for communication with a few friends but otherwise the influence social media has on me is that it tends to make my skin crawl.
 
I don’t use social media.

My friends know I will stop after I start one thing up and think I’m nuts. Lol.

I post and browse Web only using a phone and it eats up my data and I also like to finish what I start. So with an ongoing social media account i would get nothing done irl.😊
 
Facebook is a window through which I can keep up with happenings amongst my many cousins, and numerous nephews and nieces.
It also enables me to follow the closed family group page with our ancestry, my parents being both of the same line.
As my father undertook and contributed a lot of our long ancestral history, I occasionally add information and photos
And also to follow favorite landscape photogrphers’ posts, especially of Scotland and Australia.
A gift from my sons took me to Scotland…love these two countries …
not forgetting the US, several years ago a gift from my sons took me there. Warm, friendly people, amazing places.
 
Very, very little. I didn’t buy into the hype, particularly with Facebook.

Social media has been quite helpful in helping me see who my real friends are, however. I sent an email to someone I’ve known for 20 years to ask how she’s doing. Her response: “If you were on Facebook, you would already know.” Gee, sorry. Didn’t know our friendship depended upon the existence of Facebook… ☹️
 
Yes Facebook makes it easy. And eliminates some diolog. Like geee how you doing?
 
Maybe that’s why Facebook doesn’t make sense to me. I aim to encourage dialogue, not eliminate it.
 
I think social media has given the timid a voice that they can be bold
 
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