concerning social media...

[charliethebum]

I haven't been part of this forum for long, but it seems everyone here is someone I would like to have couple beers with. I tried Facebook and I have found repeatedly that I am not a social media person. I mean if the basis of discussion on Facebook was beer I'd be on it all day (like a lot of people I know) but as it is, I'm already in contact with everyone I gave a $#!+ about in high school and I see social media as nothing but a time killer. Wow. I lost my train of thought there. My question is what do y'all think of this phenomenon we call social media? Sorry for the rambling rant. Cheers boys and girls!

 

[ol-hazza]

Its here to stay and some bastard child amalgamation of what we currently have will overtake all forms of communcation that isnt face to face.

Personally i think they are great when im trying to get in touch with someone, and a pain when someone is tryin to get in touch with me

 

[HB_in_Subic]

I agree that it is here to stay but it is a huge time waster and privacy invader (tracking your location, etc.). I check it once a day and that is it.

I would rather waste time here than there

 

[Rotor_Head]

Agree all. I have posted here before that I thought this was really good place to waste a LOT of time. I know this because since I joined last month I have been glued to this site. I am always learning and often inspired by what folks say and do here. Its also funny as $hit! Cheers to a great place to kill the time someone else thinks you should use for something someone else thinks is more important.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

HBT is social media and also proof that not all media is created or maintained the same. HBT is a far cry fry from FB, yet here we are socializing over common ground. most media, be it social or news, is a thorn in my side and I don't trust 99.99% of it. welcome to the other .01%. why would I trust HBT over any other media? 1) personal interest 2) 95% of the people here are not here to create or fuel the drama fires 3) information in regard to my hobby by people that can be/are just as/or more anal about quality within the hobby. that and I'm the official Berry Puncher of HBT. line up for your berry punches!

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Posting on HBT is as close as I get to "social media." When it comes to facebook, the twits & such I don't participate. Nobody needs to know everything I do & honestly, there aren't any people I want to know that much about. I have better things to do than staying glued to the various social media sites.
Regards, GF.

 

[charliethebum]

Posting on HBT is as close as I get to "social media." When it comes to facebook, the twits & such I don't participate. Nobody needs to know everything I do & honestly, there aren't any people I want to know that much about. I have better things to do than staying glued to the various social media sites.
Regards, GF.

Couldn't agree more I've given fb an honest try, and it's just too damn much work to try keeping up with a whole lot of crap I could honestly care less about

 

[charliethebum]

Its here to stay and some bastard child amalgamation of what we currently have will overtake all forms of communcation that isnt face to face.

Scary thought but that's the direction we're heading.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Scary thought but that's the direction we're heading.

Ya, FB of the future.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Google+ actually has a pretty good group of beer folks. In fact, the "circles" feature tends to lead to people aligning based upon common interests rather than knowing each other in real life.

In general, I break it down this way.

Facebook: For the people you actually know in real life. Everything shared with everyone.

Twitter: It's about the flow and dissemination of information. 140 characters basically means that it's a great way to send links to information, but not really built for hosting information itself.

Google+: Because of the "circles" function, you can actively curate the information you post and target it at the people who would most like to receive it. As such, it aligns around hobbies, interests, etc. You can talk about things (like beer) that would bore the crap out of your Facebook friends and talk about it in detail that goes far beyond twitter.

That said, if G+ went away tomorrow, it wouldn't really change my life. If Facebook went away tomorrow, my wife would be devastated though... (I don't do Facebook).

 

[joshesmusica]

When you have friends from all over the world, and you live in the far north, facebook is pretty nice to have around. But i recently just got super annoyed by all of the bs that was on my news feed that i went on a friends-deleting rampage. My criteria for facebook friends became if i saw them on the street, or in the mall, or in walmart or something, would i stop and take five minutes to say hi and catch up. if so, fb friend to stay. if i wouldn't waste my time, bye-bye.
before that i, for some reason, always tried to keep my friends list under 1000. but i always felt bad with new friend requests that they might think i'm a dick for not accepting them. now i couldn't give a ****. new friends requests gets the same criterion. i now have 430.
i love HBT though. it's one of the few great social media sites.

 

[Cyclman]

I actually love FB, of course not as much as HBT. I follow breweries, homebrews hops, political groups I align with, and of course, my friends kids and kitty pictures.

I am pretty selective in who I put on my feed- you can make a custom feed- I think that's the trick.

 

[Zuljin]

HBT is my social media. It's this and a few other forums for motorcycles and fishing. Mostly those are local forums. And one I've been involved with since 2002.

 

[Glasscloud]

There's nothing wrong with social media unless you don't know how to use it correctly. And technically forums/messageboards are social media. So I always get a chuckle when people bash social media, via social media.

 

[sandyeggoxj]

Ya, FB of the future.

False. It will be wireless!

 

[charliethebum]

There's nothing wrong with social media unless you don't know how to use it correctly. And technically forums/messageboards are social media. So I always get a chuckle when people bash social media, via social media.

I know HBT is a form of social media, and wasn't trying to bash anything necessarily, I'm just trying to say that people get carried away with Facebook and Twitter and whatnot, posting everything about everything that happens in their lives as if everyone needs to give a damn. SWMBO is addicted to facebook and I really think her real world social life has suffered from it. I've given it a try (twice) and just can't do it.

 

[Yooper]

I know HBT is a form of social media, and wasn't trying to bash anything necessarily, I'm just trying to say that people get carried away with Facebook and Twitter and whatnot, posting everything about everything that happens in their lives as if everyone needs to give a damn. SWMBO is addicted to facebook and I really think her real world social life has suffered from it. I've given it a try (twice) and just can't do it.

I've felt the same way. I was one of the last people I know to get a cellphone, and I've had an iPhone since May. I HATE the way people are sitting together, like in a restaurant and staring at their phones instead of interacting with each other. When my daughter was in college, she asked me to go out for lunch at a visit. While I was having lunch for her (and I was buying!), she kept texting and reading her text messages and I was furious inside.

Still, I found HBT almost 9 years ago (!) and found that it was a great fit for me. A few years later, I tried Facebook and didn't really 'get' it, but a few high school friends found me and invited to me to our 30 year reunion. After that, I found some of my brewing buddies from this forum on Facebook, and found that I liked that part of it. I'm boring, so I post about beer and food mostly, but with a few fish pictures and grandkids stuff, but I do love reading some of my friends' posts and activities.

The key for me was to not follow people who post a billion stupid photos or dumb sayings, even though I actually like those people in person. I've kept up a bit with my friends from the homebrew conferences, enjoyed staying in touch with high school friends, plus my daughter will sometimes post photos of her kids and I love that. I think that I use it when I want, and I'm not a slave to it, and that makes it useful to me.

The way I learned to brew was through this forum, and I've made real friends here that I've kept up with via this forum and Facebook, so I do have a real appreciation for what it can give me.

If I ever walk around with a blank look on my face, head down, mouth open, typing with my thumbs though- KICK ME. HARD!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I'm sorry Yoop. What were saying???....

 

[vanishingpint]

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