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csno01
Member Posts: 208 Pioneering
Hi everyone,
What is your preferred method of Communication are you an old school forum user or do you prefer to use Social Media? I am just asking because I find online communities are now more popular with social networks then online forums (which they once were). I find this both sad and downgrading as not everyone is comfortable with posting on Facebook, I for one definitely isn't - hence others being able to read everything you post. Well, almost everything.
I remember back in the day RNIB had an online community for students which i used to use a lot. These days there appears to be more of facebook and fewer stand alone communities. My question is are we better off posting and sharing ideas here or can we use Facebook to exchange information and make connections? What dos and don'ts do you have in place for your online communities. I apologies if my question is not 100 clear.
What is your preferred method of Communication are you an old school forum user or do you prefer to use Social Media? I am just asking because I find online communities are now more popular with social networks then online forums (which they once were). I find this both sad and downgrading as not everyone is comfortable with posting on Facebook, I for one definitely isn't - hence others being able to read everything you post. Well, almost everything.
I remember back in the day RNIB had an online community for students which i used to use a lot. These days there appears to be more of facebook and fewer stand alone communities. My question is are we better off posting and sharing ideas here or can we use Facebook to exchange information and make connections? What dos and don'ts do you have in place for your online communities. I apologies if my question is not 100 clear.
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It makes my mental health worse and paranoia extreme.
My way of communication is here, people with knowledge of things to help, support me.
i feel, each to their own but I’d rather have this site as people judging me.
my personal opinion though
Carrier pigeon supplied if necessary.
I have an off button, social media doesn't appear to and is becoming a modern day addiction.
When was the last time you wrote a letter (Tuesday) before this last year!
When was the last time you telephoned someone ( today) before that few weeks ago
When was the last time you text ( just now) before that just before the just now.
I don't really do change to be fair. Bit of an odd bod. Winter clothes to summer is hard work as is changing back. Don't start me on the snow. I couldn't go out at all, though they were saying unless you needed to.
Life is isolating enough. I need to speak to people not sit liking at written words.
I do a little of social media as my family and friends are all over the place so it helps keep in touch we normally agree time to get a cuppa and skype lol I have folk who come to my house daily for a cuppa and there are a few friends I post letters to still as they dont have many people in their lives and I do that so they get something nice in the post rather than just bills.
I started out on forums mostly fox forums around a certain programme in the 90's so felt happy emailing and forums so when social media came out I never really got on board. Although I have the account for one of them, I do not use it often as I am fed up seeing peoples breakfast, or their duckface or every new face their children pull.
I do worry about next generation, not just spelling and grammar, also their inability to read a situation or body language. I had taken my children to mcdonalds and every cubicle I looked at, had people looking into their phones not conversing with those they were having a meal with. It is quite shocking.
I had a 10 year old say to me a few weeks ago,
“ I think I’m going to ask my teacher if I can get a tablet for doing my work because my writings rubbish “
Omg, seriously!!
I said, the reason you think your writing isn’t so great is because you don’t practice enough, your too busy on your phone and tablet. practice makes perfect.
I don't have one.
But then when I had a computer my parents restricted me to one hour per day. I was then expected to do something else.
One advert I saw on TV about a product said- " there is no escape" and that's to encourage you to buy it and it's true there isn't.
It used to be a choice.
Just had a lengthy phone call to my phone provider who dictates what ID I should have.
It's a sad fact that parents are buying their children smart phones. Side topic parental controls do not work.
What do you mean they told you your ID, did you not have a choice or say you would prefer something else? that is shocking
The more leisure time we have means the government is not making money if they are not making money then the system collapses.
It is shocking how much has gone to other countries though, and how it is viable for them to send it so far cheaper than what we can make and build here.
Scotland is now generating electricity, which is another thing that is employing a fair few people, but not as much as all the other jobs gone abroad over the years.
if you're wondering what people would do without an economy then i heard about The Venus project years ago, it still sounds good.The guy who created the idea, Jacque Fresco, thought of it because of the great depression he lived through as a child and just figured that capitalism isn't the best way of doing things.
If you go to the play store and set up a parental block for its content, it mentions that.
Kids are very savvy and so are the websites.