I only use FB to keep up with family. There’s alot more going on than the eye can see or the ears can hear.
Look deeper folks…look spiritually because spiritual warfare IS REAL!!!
My daughter, who is attending grad school in Los Angeles, is extremely tech savvy.
We keep up by writing letters.
She gets it. 
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I had a FB account, but more than several years ago I closed it. I deleted everything I could from it first, and made it as private as possible, then permanently closed. I know FB has whatever was posted there, not much, but I realized shortly after opening it how intrusive FB is, and wanted no part of it.
I had family and friends on it, which is why I joined. After reading the frequent posts of what he/she had for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, constant pet photos, etc., I had enough. No one was looking for real conversation, just attention seeking. I believe many that are frequent posters believe they are Internet stars or some such idiocy - not something I need in my life, nor want to be a part of.
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Here’s a strange concept. Relationships are forged FACE TO FACE! They also last a lot longer. I don’t need a thumb up my butt to convince me I’m liked or I’m doing a good job!
This is the reason it’s in the White House, too many thumbs!
Back then, this meant something! Ayyy
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I have an account but I am considering dropping it. I am sitting in Facebook jail for posting a site where a friend can get shotgun ammo. It seems as if that is against community standards.
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I have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MeWe and Parler accounts. I barely touch Parler and MeWe because I am not acclimated to them. I have personal and business accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. My business accounts post pictures and blog posts, mostly by my web host provider and my wife on Instagram. I rarely use my Twitter and Instagram accounts. I am primarily on Facebook private groups that support causes I support.
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Many years ago I had a FB account but I never really used it much at all. After Bush jr. And the beginning of Obozo. I deleted my account and haven’t been back since. It sucks and is only a spying website… my opinion.
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@MikeBKY …how do you find the time to manage all these? 
Do you have a recipe for longer than 24hrs day? 
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My wife does my work Instagram stuff which also goes to my work Facebook. FindLaw handles my website blog which goes to Facebook also.
I don’t touch Parler or MeWe.
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Ultimately, Twitter and Facebook mostly equate to reading toilet stall walls. I don’t hold accounts with either, or any other generalized social media. My only contact with Facebook is when a business I’m interested in uses it. Even then I only observe, I don’t interact.
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I don’t use social media. I use USPS and penmanship or E-mail to communicate w/family and friends. I believe it’s kind of dumb to tell the whole world about me & mine about stuff that’s none of their business. Given FB’s inclination toward censorship, I think a small “social” footprint is called for and wise. As for Twitter and tweets, same thing. Besides, I don’t crap through feathers. But that’s just me…
The question at the beginning about Age has nothing to do with the fact that I do not have any social media accounts. I have been working in IT for now on 35 years in some manner or the other (including government orgs) and will admit that early in my career I was on a few BBS (for the young ones that is a Bulletin Board System, all text and no graphics) but knowing what I know never had the urge to join the FB, MySpace, Instagram, etc… crowd. Everything you post on these systems creates a profile of your life for anyone interested in it. Using profiling software someone could take what you post and compile a very good picture of your daily life and who you associate with and where you have been (most people do not remove or turn off the geo location data in their pictures) as well as hints to what your security question answers would be for your accounts.
My stance does cause some issues with the different organizations I belong to as they insist in posting events and information to the FB page which I never see as the page is locked to FB members only. To keep abreast of any new postings I call members a few times a week.
On another note I also do not wear patches, hats, jackets or shirts that would point to me possibly carrying or having a firearm, I believe in the gray man when it comes to carrying.
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Yes, age and IT literacy are not at all equivalent. It was in fact, the “older” generation that was the first to use computers for work and in everyday life. I do believe, though, that younger generations are more likely to use social media, as they generally seem not as informed, or to care, about what these companies actually do with the data they mine from the accounts, nor what anyone else perusing their accounts can do with that data.
Yep! I have a 14 year old niece who thought she needed to explain what YouTube is to my wife and me a few months ago. So I showed her a YouTube video I shot on a cell phone while sitting in a kayak in a salt marsh when she was a toddler.
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I am hoping that Cancel Culture will change their minds. But, as they say, an idiot with a computer is a bigger, better idiot.
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I have both Facebook and Twitter accounts, but I have them locked down for strict privacy, plus I rarely post anything on them (and nothing controversial). I work in academia in California, and it is in my best interests to keep my social media visibility to pretty much zero. I use Twitter and Facebook to follow what others say.
I had a Facebook account for quite a few years and one day back around last November a message popped up saying my account was disabled because they determined that I was not old enough (i’m 73)… still trying to figure that out… and it just really aggravates me that friends I have known since many years ago and friends from various interests such as woodworking can no longer contact me via Facebook due to some stupid mistake on facebook’s part.
When it is time to run that social credits system, I’d rather have CCP than FB doing it, customer service for CCP is much more responsive, and not outsourced.
I dropped Facebook about 6 mths ago, have never missed it. I never had a Twitter acct , so my thought was if everyone got off these sites it would leave only the leftest Democrats to discuss how ignorant they really are.
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I think I’ve posted this before but I only use FB to keep up with family primarily.
With the way these social media sites are doing, I don’t comment at all on political issues because its clear the 1st Amendment means nothing to them.
I have never had a Twitter or Instagram account because I simply don’t care for either.
The Congress has ZERO interest in amending the 1st amendment to make thes folks respect freedom of soeech…and I’m sure if folks are paying attention they know why.