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Just curious how many of you use "facebook" and post regularly. How many use "twitter" and read or contribute "tweets" regularly. I use neither one but am curious how many do and why they use these mediums.
 
I use Facebook pretty heavily. Mainly because I live 3 hours from most of my family, and 7 hours from my sister and it's a good way to keep in touch and updated with each other.

I don't tweet, but I do read Twitter for breaking news and info.
 
I don't do either one, it's all I can do to try and keep up with RFs.
 
breatheoflife said:
I use Facebook pretty heavily. Mainly because I live 3 hours from most of my family, and 7 hours from my sister and it's a good way to keep in touch and updated with each other.
I don't tweet, but I do read Twitter for breaking news and info.
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Does Facebook offer anything you could not do with email? I'm trying to understand the attraction of Facebook. And "Twitter."
 
The mindless drones that you see everywhere with there heads down and thumbs aflying are tweeter/texters and I have no desire to join their ranks. Of course This Is Just My Opinion.
 
I have Twitter. I mostly just read what other people post though. It's a good place to get racing news and pictures during the weekend.
 
breatheoflife said:
Mainly because I live 3 hours from most of my family, and 7 hours from my sister and it's a good way to keep in touch and updated with each other.
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I've got family in Mass, Penn, So Carolina, Fla, and Texas. E-mail. Plus quite a few forum friends also by e-mail.

The only advantage to twitter I can see is you get notified almost instantly no matter where you are on your phone.
 
Whizzer said:
Does Facebook offer anything you could not do with email? I'm trying to understand the attraction of Facebook. And "Twitter."
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Yes, saves me time. I make one post, all my friends and families see it. I don't have to worry about sending one email to multiple people.
 
I'm on Facebook a lot. I've got friends I made through racing from Alaska to Florida and most all state in between. We keep in contact that way --- to us, it's just better than email. I also talk to a number of them on the phone --- actual voice contact! LOL A number of them have been friends on one forum or another since the mid 90s. We know each other very well.

I follow a few people on Twitter --- most of those are associated with NASCAR. I do not send many tweets myself, unless I'm replying to a friend --- In 2 years, I've sent just over 200 tweets. Not a heavy user, just a follower.
 
Bobw said:
I've got family in Mass, Penn, So Carolina, Fla, and Texas. E-mail. Plus quite a few forum friends also by e-mail.
The only advantage to twitter I can see is you get notified almost instantly no matter where you are on your phone.
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So, that's the problem! My cell phone is wall mounted and requires turning the crank on the side, then a voice says, "operator" and I tell the voice who I want to contact. On a more practical note, my cell phone is old school. It has no tweet feature and sits on the desk until picked up then I loop it through my belt and usually forget to turn it on. Did I mention my cell phone only costs 20$ every three months? And 10 cents a minute after that? I can't figure out what it is people have so much to say they need 300 minutes or unlimited calling to maintain contact. I go visit my friends and we talk face to face. Cell phones and computers are the ruination of the Palmer Method of Handwriting and personal contact.

WHOOPS! Forgot about the old fashioned telephone with a ringer bell and wires and such. No offense intended. Old timers brain fade! ;)
 
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TexasRaceLady said:
! LOL A number of them have been friends on one forum or another since the mid 90s. We know each other very well.

I follow a few people on Twitter --- most of those are associated with NASCAR. I do not send many tweets myself, unless I'm replying to a friend --- In 2 years, I've sent just over 200 tweets. Not a heavy user, just a follower.
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I'm on Facebook a lot (and I mean a lot). I have a Twitter account as well, mostly following a few racing related folks. But dang TRL, 200 tweets in 2 years? That's probably 180 more tweets than me over the same time frame.
 
I don't use my phone to tweet --- strictly the computer.

My cell makes phone calls and sends/receives texts --- that's it. I pay by the year for a Tracfone --- works out to about $16 a month with plenty of minutes. I'll probably never use all the minutes since I rarely use the phone. It's for my convenience --- it's not my life.
 
I made a facebook page around 2007. Only used it for a few months then I stopped.

I got tracked down through it way too easy so I had to delete that page. lol

All you have to do is put one's email adress into the search bar and you're found.
 
I'm on there often. Those damned social media sites did sort of impact these forum boards a good bit though---even though now the boards seem to be coming back a bit.

You guys can add me on there, btw, lol
 
reck said:
All you have to do is put one's email adress into the search bar and you're found.
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That's why I keep several generic email addys. When I don't want to be contacted I use one of those. I may check them every once in a while, just to dump all the stuff in them and keep them active.
 
I don't understand the desire to post how wasted you got over the weekend and what you did for all the world to see.
 
Bobw said:
I don't understand the desire to post how wasted you got over the weekend and what you did for all the world to see.
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Well, I usually do that on here lol...it's kind of the same mechanism, although I HATED the way Myspace and FB put the crunch to the boards a few years ago.

It's all just online interaction in just another cyber-bar. FB or R-F, not much difference to me.
 
Maybe I need to get me a few of them old fart friends....I am a grandfather after all, lol( as hard as that is to say)
 
I use Facebook an awful lot. I don't post a ton of stuff, but I chat with old friends and family members on there fairly often. Many people who I hadn't talked to since high school found me and some of them are worth talking to, so it's been a good thing for me.
 
I don't get Twitter at all... but I do get on Facebook everyday. It helps me keep in more contact w friends and family. Now that my daughter lives across the country I can still see what she's up to even if our work schedules don't allow us to talk on the phone everyday.
 
I have never used facebook, my wife does. I have a few friends in different states I probably should, they have tossed a few hints. But I am pretty busy and probably spend to much time on line already.

I will randomly read some twitter stuff if someone links something interesting.
 
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