Thanks, but No Thanks...

[RC Storick]

facebook,Twitter,Google,Walmart etc.. are all involved with the DHS and are spying and sharing your info with any alphabet soup agency. I know when people say I have nothing to hide. When your grouped into some organization because Achmed is a Friend of a Friend of some friend you have invited to your circle they don't care.

Once I researched the depth of the problem of this all of my accounts were closed. Why do you think that tag a image of a friend is on facebook?

[Bill Jacklin]

Running XP that has been stripped to run like 2kPro -- fast!
Win 7 (also stripped) and several Linux variants available when compatibility with 'the world' is required.*
NO social media for me.
Flip phone, Verizon set to NO text (can't see keyboard anyway).

What else would you expect from a Ringmaster/Fox .35 kinda' guy?

* - I occasionally do some scambaiting. I LOVE to get those 'Windows Technical Department' scammers on the land-line to see how long I can keep them occupied and how frustrated I can get them. 

[Bill Morell]

facebook,Twitter,Google,Walmart etc.. are all involved with the DHS and are spying and sharing your info with any alphabet soup agency. I know when people say I have nothing to hide. When your grouped into some organization because Achmed is a Friend of a Friend of some friend you have invited to your circle they don't care.

Once I researched the depth of the problem of this all of my accounts were closed. Why do you think that tag a image of a friend is on facebook?

Seeing as you already had one of these  accounts they already know who and  where you are. Closing it and pretending that you are now hiding is silly.

[Bill Johnson]

......Oh and an electronic forum IS considered social media, sorry guys....

Some people just aren't as sociable as others.....

[Greg McCoy]

About a month ago I finished a bundle of bank checks that was started in 2011.

Can't remember when I last ordered checks.

To me they seem insecure having the routing and account numbers on them.

[Garf]

Oh and an electronic forum IS considered social media, sorry guys....

The forums are not what I refer to as social media. It is non intrusive unlike facebook and linkdin etc. At least to me it is different.

[PerttiMe]

I even have texting BLOCKED on my flip-phone.  Verizon had been sending me ad messages, and charging me 20 cents per.

They what?!?
Are they also charging you for receiving calls on that side of the Atlantic?

[Steve Helmick]

When I cross the border into Canada, I get at least a couple of text messages that tell me that I can continue to use my phone, and will be using "Shaw Network", I think it is. I don't use my cell phone in Canada, but would if it was an emergency, of course. I have been wondering if I get charged, and probably should just turn it off before I cross the border. Yet, it's not which side you are on, but which side the cell tower is.

If you like having fun with the phoney "Windows Technician" calls, ask them what you need to do to fix the damned thing. They'll tell you to push a couple of butons...I don't recall which. DON'T! But tell them you did. They'll ask what you see on the screen. Say "Nothing, just a blue screen." They'll get all crazy and jibber-jabber in the background. Play them along, telling them that you did what they said, and maybe say it locked up your computer, and you'll have to re-boot, etc. Lots of fun. The important thing is to not do whatever they say to do, but tell them you did just what they said, and then yell at them for *******-up your computer, and shout something about their parentage, and maybe, just maybe they'll quit calling!  Steve 

[John Cralley]

A hash tag is the # symbol.  it is placed in a post to allow the next word to show up in a keyword search. 

So you use it if you are writing something on twitter about an event or-thing you may want someone to find it.  #control-line

While social media is full of B list celebrities, and C list nobodys trying to be interesting, it isn't hard to block or ignore that and get only what you want out of it.
No one forces you to follow Kim.  Block her fat A$$ as i did. 

I use twitter to follow Notre Dame Football and game day traffic in south bend when we go to a game.  Not much else, but it works very well for that.  The Indiana state police do a nice job pushing out weather related issues and traffic info.

I use facebook to keep track of friends and promote our club.  It helps and there are a lot of good control line people in facebook all around the world.  You non participants are missing it. I stay away from anything controversial, political and I block people that do.  Ends up with a simple hassle free existence there.  Yes even control line people are out of control on facebook, but it is easy to block them.  I have blocked some of my family and friends due to the way they act on facebook.   

You, the user are the master of the content, not the other way around.  Social media is set up to let you filter out the crap not force you to look at it.

So I encourage all of you to try social media and blame the idiots on it, not the technology.  Take control.     

Get it to work for you, the way you want,  not just bitch about it.  It isn't that hard.  You might be surprised if you were not so negative.

Oh and an electronic forum IS considered social media, sorry guys....

Dave, You're right!

Many people with closed minds and kill the messenger mentality are missing out!

Time to get into the 21st century!

[Steve Helmick]

# is a "pound sign" on your phone. Why do they call it a "hashtag" on the cell phone? There oughta be a law against changing the name of something like the #. What's next? They gonna change the ~ from the "tilde" to a "wiggleyworm" or the + sign to mean "minus"? It's BS.  Steve