Does Social Media make you even MORE depressed?
05-29-2024, 11:48 AM
#31
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
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Well, I rarely watch quilting videos. The only time I do is to learn how to do something. I really don't care enough about what others do to ask.
06-01-2024, 02:35 AM
#33
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Vermont
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They are so useful for that! For years I could not set the "minutes" on my car radio/clock. Despite reading the manual. I came inside, watched a video, and voila! I could do it. And the comment section was full of other people who had the same problem.
06-01-2024, 03:16 AM
#34
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: The Finger Lakes of upstate NY
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As with everything else, we all have our own opinion.
This board is social media, right? What makes this more acceptable than other sites?
I use FB, IG and ND (Next Door). Many small businesses now use FB as their "webpage"; it's free rather than having to pay for a registered site. I follow a couple of quilt groups, a couple of pattern designers, a birding group and a local group, and find all worthwhile for inspiration, ideas and information.
On FB, my circle of friends is small, and I actually consider them friends. Many people, especially younger folks, have hundreds and hundreds of "friends". They aren't actually friends, and often aren't even acquaintances. That, I do not understand. I probably have more people who have requested to be friends than actual friends. Former co-workers that I never spoke with, people who know people I might know, etc.
There is so little on TV to watch that I do watch YouTube videos. I don't know how TY decides what to put in my feed, but I've binge watched some interesting people. Like a TV in the background, it might be on while I'm doing something else, so rarely do I actually dedicate time to watching. I've watched a truck driver, a retired couple who live in a van with their 2 cats; they traveled all over South America for years and are now traveling through Europe, a beach comber who lives not far from our winter home, etc. Two of my favs are Kate's Homely House East of the Sea and Karen of Just Get it Done.
Some people like to read, some garden, some play online games or surf the web. We all get to make our own choices, and even if I don't understand them, I'm not here to judge them.
This board is social media, right? What makes this more acceptable than other sites?
I use FB, IG and ND (Next Door). Many small businesses now use FB as their "webpage"; it's free rather than having to pay for a registered site. I follow a couple of quilt groups, a couple of pattern designers, a birding group and a local group, and find all worthwhile for inspiration, ideas and information.
On FB, my circle of friends is small, and I actually consider them friends. Many people, especially younger folks, have hundreds and hundreds of "friends". They aren't actually friends, and often aren't even acquaintances. That, I do not understand. I probably have more people who have requested to be friends than actual friends. Former co-workers that I never spoke with, people who know people I might know, etc.
There is so little on TV to watch that I do watch YouTube videos. I don't know how TY decides what to put in my feed, but I've binge watched some interesting people. Like a TV in the background, it might be on while I'm doing something else, so rarely do I actually dedicate time to watching. I've watched a truck driver, a retired couple who live in a van with their 2 cats; they traveled all over South America for years and are now traveling through Europe, a beach comber who lives not far from our winter home, etc. Two of my favs are Kate's Homely House East of the Sea and Karen of Just Get it Done.
Some people like to read, some garden, some play online games or surf the web. We all get to make our own choices, and even if I don't understand them, I'm not here to judge them.
