How many DON'T have facebook/twitter ect accounts ?

Do you have any "social media" accounts ?


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SeabeeRon

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Aug 5, 2007
2,068
2,041
Santa Cruz, CA.
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Internet Relay Chat.

It was truly the beginning of it all.

Before that was the BBS... which was Bulletin Board System.

Thanks! I remember BBS, must have slept through IRC! :laughing7:
 

Heavygold4me

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Jan 27, 2020
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South mississippi
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Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I don’t do any social media, I don’t feel the need to publish anything going on in my life. If I want to stay in touch I’ll text or being old fashioned I will even pick up the phone and call someone.
 

relicmeister

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Jul 26, 2012
2,201
2,113
Poconos, Nw.NJ & Delaware Valley
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XP Orx Deus II, 9” coil
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Not a user of any. Personally think they do much more harm than good
There are better ways for people to connect
Forums like this one are fine and I see only good coming from them, unless they are related to negative topics.
 

dognose

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Apr 15, 2009
2,906
7,833
Indiana
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Fisher F70
I dont do Facebook. or twitter.

In my "professional life" I did LinkedIn - that's about it.

Many years ago when twitter started i created an account. But then thought nobody really cares to hear me pontificate about events and I certainly don't care to have others tell me what to think, nor do i really care what they are doing.

I do use this forum as my social media.

Back in the old old days in the 80's I got onto the forerunners of these forums called bulletin boards.

Back in the 90s as more and more social media were coming online I determined I don't have the time, nor the inclination to spend a lot of time on multiples so I focused primarily on this forum and LinkedIn, and LinkedIn was rarely used. While I read post here, I don't post as much as reading.

Most social media are economic engines to enrich few and sell the masses products they really don't need - in my opinion.

The majority of my time would rather be spent in the field making finds than wasting time on social media.
 

StevensXEH

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May 11, 2021
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Yes, I have many social networks, I think many others. There are many applications where you would like to register and see what happens there. Plus, everyone makes his content based on something specific, such as Tik Tok in shooting videos or Instagram with pictures. And of course, they all have many other functions if you know how to discover them. For example, it was a time on Instagram when I wanted my account to be followed only by friends. So I decided to use Instagram removes followers. So I could clean up my account from all kinds of followers very quickly.
 

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pepperj

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Feb 3, 2009
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137,038
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Deus, Deus 2, Minelab 3030, E-Trac,
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I think social media sites that allow you to post things to the world are not good. I used to have an instragram account, snapchat, twitter but I got rid of instagram and twitter because its full of trolls and keyboard warriors.

I use private messengers, not a fan of Whatsapp so much anymore but I use Session Messenger. Its a good private messenger. My ID is 05380b40e5915c112c040ff5826089942d905d96c4dc5d78368fcddce561b70d1a on Session if anyone else has it, feel free to add me.

Lisa
I must be just too old as I have a hard time remembering pass words account names.
Though I give you lots of credit for rattling off 65 numbers and letters-like that's one crazy long ID:headbang::laughing7:
 

sibbley

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Mar 18, 2023
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Nazareth, PA
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Metal Detecting
I did without social media till 2021. When I started doing videos for a local band, I needed to get on board. I have joined a few metal detecting groups this past year.
 

Oregon Viking

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Jan 6, 2014
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37,260
Brookings-Harbor Oregon
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Keene A52 with Gold Hog mats
Gold-N-Sand hand dredge
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I use it because it IS the local classifieds. Buy and sell bikes, guitars, cars... and advertising my business, way more hits then local paper radio. Facebook only.
 

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robertk

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May 16, 2023
1,863
8,525
Missouri
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White's Spectra v3i
Garrett Ultra GTA 1000
Whites Coinmaster
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I think social media sites that allow you to post things to the world are not good.
Isn't that exactly what we're doing here? Granted the expected audience is smaller and more specialized, but there's nothing preventing whatever is posted here going to anyone in the world, whether they "friend" or "follow" you or not -- you don't even have to be a member to read what's posted on these forums.
 

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