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Post by Halloween King on Apr 1, 2018 7:04:36 GMT -5
Questions for those of you on Social media.
How many friends do you have on Social media?
Do you actually know those people?
Do you have a filter when accepting people as friends/requesting?
I'm not on Twitter so I don't know how that works, as far as friends/followers.
I got the idea for this question from Facebook. I was looking at mutual friends I have with someone. Scrolling through the mutual friends made me wonder if we had more mutual friends (in real life). So I clicked on their All friends tab and saw the friends count was in the thousands. I just think there is no way you actually know and talk to 3000 or so people.
I have a FB. I have maybe 70 people on there. Of the 70 half are people I knew at some point in my life but I don't really talk to. I'd delete them but something keeps me from doing so. Like I don't want the deleted people to think I have an issue with them.
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Post by GBGav on Apr 1, 2018 8:02:27 GMT -5
I've got about 30 something on Facebook and it's hovered around there for years. I either knew each one from school or are people I became friends with either through meeting in games on Xbox live or on here. There are no people who I've never met or communicated with.
I too can never understand how someone can have hundreds, perhaps thousands of "friends." I imagine their news feed is a mess and real friends get lost in the shuffle. At least with my small group I can easily see what they're all posting and sharing.
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Apr 1, 2018 8:04:00 GMT -5
Most of my friends are from school or work.
People can't tell if you delete them or not.
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Post by Halloween King on Apr 1, 2018 8:30:19 GMT -5
Most of my friends are from school or work. People can't tell if you delete them or not. They aren't alerted when you delete them, no. But eventually they'll become aware that you are no longer friends.
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Post by WWF Sim Fed on Apr 1, 2018 9:43:47 GMT -5
The only social media I use is this forum, 3 Dudes With Attitudes and SnapChat.
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Post by Valbroski on Apr 1, 2018 10:57:42 GMT -5
When I used to use facebook, most of the people that added me were people I barely knew. Usually people will just add whoever they know from school or work, even if they don't talk to you in real life.
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Post by Nick the Quick on Apr 1, 2018 12:32:21 GMT -5
I have around 300 friends on Facebook. I know basically all of them from either school, work, or from friends. I don’t know how people can have 1000’s of friends, I don’t even know that many people by name.
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Post by Valbroski on Apr 1, 2018 13:01:04 GMT -5
Also, I really hate how invasive social media is. I'm not on anything anymore but my brothers are and my moms sister texts her about nearly everything they post. That would annoy the out of me.
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Post by enigmafigs on Apr 1, 2018 13:29:30 GMT -5
The only social media I actively use apart from this is Instagram. I have around 200ish followers, most of which are colleagues/schoolmates with about 30 that I would actually consider to be friends.
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Post by Stuart? on Apr 1, 2018 13:48:34 GMT -5
I'm on pretty much every form of social media.
On Facebook I've got 319 friends, most of which are people from school/university. About 50 are people I've met through wrestling figure groups on Facebook or friends from Instagram or YouTube that I've become close with though never met in real life. I don't get that many random friend requests but I only add people if either I've met them in real life or I've communicated with them before and they seem like good people. My best friend has about 3000 friends and I know there's no way he actually knows that many people haha. Guess he just gets and accepts a lot of random requests.
I've unfollowed most people from high school that I don't speak to so I'm still friends with them but I don't have to see their posts. My feed is mostly posts by my close friends along with posts by my favourite bands/TV shows and a lot of memes.
Instagram and Twitter are the main apps that I use. I've got about 140 followers on my personal IG account and 260 on my Pic Fed's IG (@w3afed if ya wanna follow!). I've got about 70 followers on Twitter. I recently downloaded Snapchat and I've only really got my brother and a few close friends on that, even still, I only really use it to talk to one person cause she rarely uses Facebook and takes forever to reply on it.
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Post by Halloween King on Apr 1, 2018 14:55:55 GMT -5
I'm on pretty much every form of social media. On Facebook I've got 319 friends, most of which are people from school/university. About 50 are people I've met through wrestling figure groups on Facebook or friends from Instagram or YouTube that I've become close with though never met in real life. I don't get that many random friend requests but I only add people if either I've met them in real life or I've communicated with them before and they seem like good people. My best friend has about 3000 friends and I know there's no way he actually knows that many people haha. Guess he just gets and accepts a lot of random requests. I've unfollowed most people from high school that I don't speak to so I'm still friends with them but I don't have to see their posts. My feed is mostly posts by my close friends along with posts by my favourite bands/TV shows and a lot of memes. Instagram and Twitter are the main apps that I use. I've got about 140 followers on my personal IG account and 260 on my Pic Fed's IG (@w3afed if ya wanna follow!). I've got about 70 followers on Twitter. I recently downloaded Snapchat and I've only really got my brother and a few close friends on that, even still, I only really use it to talk to one person cause she rarely uses Facebook and takes forever to reply on it. I do this as well. I unfollow people who annoy me. I have a coworker who constantly posts stuff about race. Stuff that just seems so far out there that I'd rather unfollow than see that nonsense. And if I unfollowed you there is also a very high chance I put you on a restricted list so that you can't see my posts/pics.
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Post by Rated [R] NinJa on Apr 1, 2018 20:02:59 GMT -5
I have most of the major social media apps and know about 3/4 of the people on my Facebook. (These people range from friends, family, people from school, previous jobs, met on nights out etc lol) My Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram are public so I don’t know everyone that follows me but I know most of the people I follow (minus celebrities ofc)
Facebook - 707 friends Instagram - 686 followers Twitter - 472 followers Snapchat - ? (It doesn’t tell you how many people have added you) Tumblr - 88 followers (don’t really use this much)
I think the only WF member I have on Facebook is Warheart too, we became friends back when we used to discuss Jakks customs/fix-ups we’d work on. Good times.
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Post by ahunter8056 on Apr 2, 2018 7:52:58 GMT -5
Of all the social media platforms out there, I only use Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook, I only add people that I know/used to know in real life, that I actually like. So people from family/school/work/college/university. I'll only keep them friended as long as I like them though. If someone turns out to be a bad person, I'll just unfriend them. If someone regularly posts/shares stuff that I don't care for or stuff that I disagree with, then I'll either unfollow or unfriend them. I would never add someone who I don't know, and it's always bewildered me that plenty of people do. I just don't get it. But to be honest, I rarely use Facebook anymore. I'll maybe go on for a minute or two a week.
As for Twitter, I only really use it to follow things that I'm a fan of. I rarely tweet, and all of my followers are just accounts who started following me randomly and don't appear to engage with any of my tweets.
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Post by Ben - #6 Munchie on Apr 2, 2018 8:12:31 GMT -5
I'm on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and this forum. Mainly use Facebook for group chats with my friends, not a fan of it outwith that generally. I have a few people I met on here on Facebook, a couple of which I'd call really good friends. Likewise I have people I met through gaming on Facebook and Snapchat who I speak to on a daily basis.
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Post by Sizzle on Apr 2, 2018 8:17:07 GMT -5
I mainly use Instagram. But other than a daily check of my account I don’t do much social media. I use Snapchat here and there because some of my friends use it mainly.
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Post by theicwguy on Apr 6, 2018 10:53:46 GMT -5
Don't have social media at all. Just wrestlingfigs.
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Apr 6, 2018 10:59:16 GMT -5
I got off Facebook and Instagram a year ago.I’m on Twitter now mostly for football news. I follow a bunch of players and news outlets that’s about it. Don’t have many friends/followers on there
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Apr 6, 2018 12:27:49 GMT -5
I have 340 friends on my Facebook.
Most are actually pro wrestlers or celebrities. I have maybe 50 people on there I know personally, but I use my Facebook mainly to add the wrestlers or TV stars. It's kind of neat to see Brooke Adams post stuff, or to have the entire cast of the TV show California Dreams on your Facebook friends list.
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Post by bad guy™ on Apr 6, 2018 14:30:39 GMT -5
I use Twitter almost exclusively for my Twitch stream...I'm pretty sure I only know like, three people on there in real life. Facebook, I have about 300 friends on there. Factor out that about 50 of them are cousins and another 30 are aunts/uncles/extended family, I actually have about 220. I know probably under half of them in real life. I've come to know a LOT of WFers over my decade here, and have many of them on there. I talk to Ace Bennett , Cameron Stone , and BSR almost daily and I have a lot of other mods/members on there because A) I try to be friends with the staff on here to make everything go smoothly and B ) they know that if they need me for something WF related they can find me on FB instantly if something's up. Then again, I've never made my real name a secret on here, and while I've had to block a few idiots, generally speaking if I know someone's from WF and we have no major issues I have no issues adding them on FB. I post a crap ton of memes, cats, gaming, WWE ish, political ramblings and weeaboo crap on there so if you can tolerate that we can be friends. I have a few people I went to school with on there. Not too many, I was a very socially inept person growing up. The few people who stuck around me when we went to high school though have remained my friends to this day, and I have a handful of college friends on there too, @majoraggro and Thunder being two of 'em. The rest are just people I've met either in passing, or ON Facebook or Twitch. That being said, I've made good friends with them. We chat daily about common interests, and I know if like...gaming news drops I can hit up Connor, if anime news comes up I can hit up Jorge or Esteban, cute cat pictures I find can go to Johanna...stuff like that. I stayed with a previously only FB friend last fall for a few days when I flew into Florida to help him and his mom with hurricane cleanup in their area, that was my first time meeting him, for example. But I also try to make myself available to them to talk if they need it. I have a couple of people I rant to if I need something off of my chest, but if someone needs to complain about something I wanna be there for them if I can. Friends are friends, doesn't matter to me if you see them every day at work or if they live a thousand miles away. With social media today, I can hit up my friend from Calgary who works at a movie theater and my friend from London who works at freaking 10 Downing Street and group them together with me to play a few games of Overwatch or something...and as a result they become friends too. And I get that you want to keep some amount of privacy for the sake of security, so like...no one knows the answers to like...security questions or my password recovery emails or what bank I use for deposits and Paypal and stuff like that. And I keep my FB and Twitter set to private so until someone friends me they can't see anything on my page other than my profile photo and cover photo (so if you want to go out of your way to harass me you've gotta deal with weeb pictures first xD ). But like, once I get to know someone and talk to them enough, we're friends, even if it's only because of one common interest. Like BSR , I only know him from online and I completely disagree with him on just about everything important, but we're friends who shoot the breeze on WWE and college sports so I know not to talk politics with him but WWE and sports are a-ok. And that's cool to me.
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Post by BSR on Apr 6, 2018 15:03:34 GMT -5
What sorcery is this
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