Am I The Only One?

theotherwaldo

Well-known member
My boss at my last job required all of his employees to have Twitter and Facebook accounts - so that he could look over our shoulders.
He was under the mistaken impression that each person could have only one account per platform.
Yeah, he was a bright boy.
When he got booted I dropped all of that nonsense and never went back.
 

Pat Riot

New member
I do THR and one CAS site and now here.
I have only been a member of one social networking site and that was over 10 years ago.
Funny story;
My sisters were all over MySpace when it was a thing and they were on Faceplant when it started warming up.
My youngest sister, Joyce, was on every social media site there was at the time, 2010, and she constantly badgered me to join one with her.
One day I finally relented and joined some site I can no longer remember the name of. I remember the little teddy bear icon that was their trademark or mascot or whatever.
Anyway, I would go on there occasionally but noticed there was a lot of risqué discussion intermingled with political stuff between men and women. Lots of flirting, which I thought was weird. I more or less lurked but would occasionally join my sister in discussions but one day I noticed she just up and vanished on that site. I thought to myself “Thank Gawd! Now I don’t have to feel guilty about not frequenting that site.”
Since I stopped visiting I started get emails from women on the site asking me questions. Questions like;
“Do you kiss and tell?”
“Would you ever cheat”
“Do you have a side gig?”
Stuff like that. I ignored them.
One day I got an email that said “Want me to rock your world?” It was from Joyce, which I thought the email was coming from my sister.
I opened it and went to the site thinking “WTH is my sister up to?”
The email invite wasn’t from my sister. It was from a lady in my area that openly said she sold sexual favors, if you know what I mean. I had a bunch of “mail” on the site and started looking and it dawned on me that this was a site for “Swingers, prostitutes and those with loose morals”. It was basically an online sex site for people to hook up.
I contacted my sister and told her what I discovered.
She says “Yeah, it’s online prostitution. That’s why I left.”
My sister’s a dingbat.
I asked her why she didn’t tell me and she said she didn’t think about it. Dingbat!

Anyway, I contacted the owners of the site and had them delete all my info. They were very nice and apologized saying that they needed to make their site more upfront about what it was.

That was my one and only foray into “social networking”. 😂
 

Quartermaster

New member
No interest in facebook, twitter, instagram, or any others. Probably a good thing as I would get kicked off after the first discussion I had with a far leftist person.
THR, 24 campfire, and Accurate shooter are the only social media I have anything to do with b-4 joining here
 

Survivor71

New member
I was on Facebook for quite a while. We moved from Illinois to Maryland and it was a good way to stay connected. Dumped it, browse Twitter when i need a good laugh. Instagram, I follow firearms, Formula 1 and a few bands I like. Gab is pretty cool. It is a good right wing alternative to Twitter. Was on Parler before they took it down. THR, TFL and now here.
My fist post here, came over from THR.
 

doubleh

Member
I follow four forums and that's it. My wife facebooks with family and friends and shows me pictures of the kids. I could easily do without that as they all live close by and I see them regularly.
 

Lilguy

New member
I like your style.

Did face book once to follow the rehab of a dear friend injured in a motorcycle accident. Its how his wife kept us informed.
Dropped it after he could talk on the phone.
The number of folks you get connected to is unnerving, was glad to be rid of it. No others. Just a few gun sites as always.
 

Blue Jays

Member
FB is still active because my hobby clubs post meetings/events there.
My own personal FB page has not had any activity since 2018 or so.
Gab, Parler, and MeWe have been tried yet with very limited success.
 

Lennyjoe

New member
THR, APS are my main pages I visit but I do surf Facebook and Twitter. Only use FB now to connect with family and very close friends. During the election people were getting ugly on FB so I culled my friends down to family and a few close friends and now the feed is tolerable. I only joined Twitter to follow Trumps feeds and see how the left reacted. Now that place is so full of hate I barely go there. Tried MeWe but that’s boring and Parlor was shut down after I joined.
 
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