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Occasional Facebook user, I have an account but rarely use it, when I do go on it I usually find my home page is swamped by my sons postings, he's on facebook most of the time.
Do you use "social media" - you know Facebook, blogs, twitter and all that?
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Chutzpah
Über Member
- Location
- Somerset, UK
On facebook but use it a lot less than I used to.
I have a blog that is updated very sporadically (mainly to moan about something)
On Linkedin, but only for work reasons
And on twitter, which takes up a whole chunk of my life. For me, there's quite a few interesting people on there, including very helpful cyclists who are always around for advice.
I have a blog that is updated very sporadically (mainly to moan about something)
On Linkedin, but only for work reasons
And on twitter, which takes up a whole chunk of my life. For me, there's quite a few interesting people on there, including very helpful cyclists who are always around for advice.
Bayerd
Über Member
- Location
- Marsden, Huddersfield
Isn't that the social networking site for perveyors of domestic violence?
I use facebook, good for keeping up with my other hobby of playing in Brass Bands and sharing photos. I'm careful about privacy settings though and don't post pictures of the family on there.
PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I love technology that makes my life easier. So remote access to my office has saved me full days at weekends - during busy periods i would just "pop in" for an hour, which would inevitably become a day!! Now I can do these odd things at any time. My iPhone is superb because I can do so much wherever I may be but I'm not in love with it as some folk are.
My cycle club uses twitter to keep us all updated but I don't really understand how to use it. That's really because I'm not interested in Twittering.
I have a Facebook account which occasionally proves useful for finding people I'd lost contact with. Great for overseas friends. On my last cycle tour I used the iPhone to upload photos and thoughts which people said they enjoyed. That's the most extensive use I've made of facebook. My wife spends a lot of time on there, usually while watching TV. Have to say I find that very irritating as she used to shout at the kids for doing the exact same thing!!!! This forum and an unofficial MB for Blackburn Rovers are the only forums I read regularly.
My cycle club uses twitter to keep us all updated but I don't really understand how to use it. That's really because I'm not interested in Twittering.
I have a Facebook account which occasionally proves useful for finding people I'd lost contact with. Great for overseas friends. On my last cycle tour I used the iPhone to upload photos and thoughts which people said they enjoyed. That's the most extensive use I've made of facebook. My wife spends a lot of time on there, usually while watching TV. Have to say I find that very irritating as she used to shout at the kids for doing the exact same thing!!!! This forum and an unofficial MB for Blackburn Rovers are the only forums I read regularly.
Steve H
Large Member
- Location
- Brighouse in West Yorkshire
Facebook - good for staying connected to friends - photos, what you are up to etc.
Twitter - Is very good for getting a feel for what famous people are up to. E.g. I follow Team Sky and quite a few of the HTC Columbia team - good for hearing their opinions on how races have gone. Also follow CyclingPlus and BikeRadar, which is good for looking out for equipment reviews etc. Although the amount of information in a "tweet" is very small. More often it is simply a headline with a link through to a photograph or website where more info is available if you are interested.
Twitter - Is very good for getting a feel for what famous people are up to. E.g. I follow Team Sky and quite a few of the HTC Columbia team - good for hearing their opinions on how races have gone. Also follow CyclingPlus and BikeRadar, which is good for looking out for equipment reviews etc. Although the amount of information in a "tweet" is very small. More often it is simply a headline with a link through to a photograph or website where more info is available if you are interested.
I use Facebook , many forums and of course Cycle Social the cyclists favourite social networking site 
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
Too many security scares for me. They seem to demand too many personal details for comfort.
Why do they need anything more than a forum? Well maybe they have a use for the details.
Why do they need anything more than a forum? Well maybe they have a use for the details.
GaryA
Subversive Sage
- Location
- High Shields
never bothered..its far too self obsessional for my tastes....
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
Never used facebook or twitter so can't comment on their usefulness, CC is my main internet site although I do have others I look at sometimes but a thing called work also curtails the time I have to spare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
i do facebook (all the usual reasons) and i do twitter only because one of my clients likes me to.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
no only this forum with rare visits to ctc and retrobike forum
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
No, too busy!
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
I have and use facebook, as a student it was the best way of keeping in touch with friends, being able to organise things and keep in touch with people who'd left uni and moved on to other places.
as an ex student I now use it to keep in touch with the many friends i made at uni, plan meet ups and have a quick nosey on people's news
via facebook I have found out, in this last week alone
1 friend has landed his dream job at aardman animation
2 friends have had their baby boy, mum is in for observation but doing well
had 1 save the date for a wedding - invite in the post
seen photos from the 3 weddings we've been to this year
had news of an engagement between two friends who are in australia
also keeping track of a couple of friends in iraq, afganistan, sudan and india (both forces and aid workers)
i am not surprised to have learnt that in some countries who have only recently started to be 'online' they have skipped e-mail and have gone straight to facebook as a form of online communication.
I will however stop using it if my mum ever joins!
as an ex student I now use it to keep in touch with the many friends i made at uni, plan meet ups and have a quick nosey on people's news
via facebook I have found out, in this last week alone
1 friend has landed his dream job at aardman animation
2 friends have had their baby boy, mum is in for observation but doing well
had 1 save the date for a wedding - invite in the post
seen photos from the 3 weddings we've been to this year
had news of an engagement between two friends who are in australia
also keeping track of a couple of friends in iraq, afganistan, sudan and india (both forces and aid workers)
i am not surprised to have learnt that in some countries who have only recently started to be 'online' they have skipped e-mail and have gone straight to facebook as a form of online communication.
I will however stop using it if my mum ever joins!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Why?
So far my two eldest children are friends with me ... I make sure I don't post anything embarrassing on their pages.... and don't watch their pages like a hawk either. And just occasionally I post something excluding them ... like the time I dyed one of their brand new t-shirts pink in the wash and needed quick recommendations for how to fix it - without them knowing.
