I belong to a few forums in my area of interest(s), which includes CC. I have contemplated a lot about joining IG as a money making idea being a social media influencer.
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Iāve wondered if we have any parent influencers here!!!
Would your platform be fitness/health or otherwise?
Yep, Iāve mentioned this possibility here previously. The subject has been brought up by people around me, including my new employer.
However, I donāt think Iād be able to āsuffer the slings and arrowsā (comments), if I enabled them. Iāve seen some rude comments on other peopleās IG accounts.
With every season of Survivor, my family tells me āYou should do it,ā which is then followed by āYouād be the first one voted off the island.ā 
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OMG, yes please to a CC Survivor contestant!
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Apparently, some Googlers started a company that lets people generate this garbage with one clickā¦ or so they claim. Google owns YouTubeā¦ so thatās where it all ends up. Ugh.
ETA: apparently, there is a name for this crap - ābrain rotā videos.
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Iām kind of indifferent about having a YouTube channel, I guess.
I play classical guitar (hobbyist only). In 2012 I was playing several arrangements by this one particular guy, and he asked me to start a YT channel. I guess he thought it would spread awareness of his arrangements? Not sure it did - itās not like Iām viral - ha ha! I had previously just been posting on FB for family and friends when I started it.
Iāve just kept it up.
I like that itās an easy platform to use, itās free, and itās nice to get positive feedback. Also nice to have all my videos in one place. Iām not monetized at all (I only have around 1,100 subscribers). Itās also interesting to get the monthly data on # of views, duration of watch time, demographics of viewership, etc from YT. I have one video that has about 20,000 views. Which is nothing in the YT world, though Iām not sure why it got so many plays. I always share composer/arranger info which helps other guitarists find their sheet music.
Of course, I dislike negative comments, but Iāve only gotten a handful of truly mean-spirited ones. I think Iāve taken down only two or three that were particularly egregious or off-topic and blocked those people. Otherwise, I leave bad comments up with good. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I dislike comments not in English - lol. I feel obligated to reply in the language in which the comment is posted. I use Google translate to do that. I cannot stand comments about my lack of smiling when I play.
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Young Boomer! I mostly use Facebook and Instagram. I donāt post much but use it to keep up with what is happening in the lives of friends, family and former co-workers. A number of the family are my husbandās relatives who he only keeps up with by me telling him what theyāve been doing. A lot of my Facebook connections have stopped using it in the past couple of years though. I also use both to keep up with groups related to my hobbies, travel, local businesses, etc. I rarely if ever post, just read.
I look at YouTube but donāt post. I mostly watch videos of local council and library board meetings that are posted there.
My sons use BeReal. Or used to. I was tempted when I first heard about it but then they told me they wouldnāt connect with me (or whatever you do) on it. 
I used to do social media for my job and posted on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. But have never used Twitter personally.
Iāve never gotten into TikTok maybe because of all the strange things on it that my son who is a huge consumer of it has told me about. Recently my dogās vetās office has been sharing some of their TikTok videos on their Facebook page and they are super cute.
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I use Facebook, I have two Instagram accounts (one personal and one for my band) and Twitter which is the best platform for an aspect of my employment.
I have a BlueSky account but rarely check it, as neither it nor Threads from Instagram really work as a replacement for how I use Twitter.
And it will always be āTwitterā to meā¦canāt wrap my head around āXā
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I use Facebook. Instagram and Tik tok. I keep up with popular music and culture that way. I would never have discovered the beauty of songs like Alex Warrenās Ordinary or Djoās End of Beginning without Tik Tok. Or watched the sweet charm of various classes of kindergartners sing Beautiful Things. Or laughed and laughed at the genius that is The Speech Profās Is Hello Kitty a Cat? ( if you havenāt seen that google it). Just to name a few of the reason I love these apps.
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One huge downside to Tik Tok. I can NOT get that āI have one daughterā earworm out of my head every time I am putting ellipses in my briefs. If you do not know this tune do not google it. It will haunt you!
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Threads is an alternative to twitter. It is owned by Meta. Bluesky is like threads and twitter, but itās totally independent of either of those, so itās non Zuckerberg and Musk. Iāll be honest, I would like to use Bluesky and nothing else, but I think the issue is that many of my friends have been blowing off social media altogether. So I personally am not seeing a lot going on there.
I was talking about facebook with a friend yesterday. Itās all ads, memes, local groups, and not much else. I had to scroll through seven other non-friend related items before a friend actually came up. Iām not sure why I bother anymore.
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I like the instagram in that there is photos, videos but no speechesā¦I think threads may be too much talk.
Thatās why I use it more than instagram. I am not super interested in seeing what people took a photo of, unless itās something funny, or beautiful, or interesting.
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I agree. But I am a member of several local groups (fitness/social/book club, Buy Nothing, neighborhood groups). That and another fitness group are the main reasons I am there.
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If you have the FB app on your phone, you can hit the three bar menu thingie in the bottom right hand corner. Then click on, āfriends,ā and youāll see friend info instead of all that other stuff.
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Yes, buy nothing groups and community pages are great. The annkying thing about fb is that if I suddenly think about checking to see if someon has been active, I have to go to their profile. So maybe they posted 3 times in the last couple of weeks, but itās all ads and I never see their post.
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Facebook is the only platform I will occasionally post on. Instagram is read only to keep up with my kids. I now use Threads for entertainment. I wonāt posts, but the responses to some posts are pure gold.
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I have 3 social media platforms (X, Instagram, Threads) but I donāt post to any of them. I follow several accounts on X for news (e.g. local weather, traffic alerts). If they would start posting on Threads, I would close my X account.
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You can go to āfeedsā on Facebook and select āfriendsā and then thatās all you will see. Itās pretty unusable w/o the Feeds. Itās on the left hand menu on your computer or at the bottom if you have the FB app on your phone.
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I do social media for work so for work I have Facebook (where most of the work followers are), Instagram, Threads (very halfheartedly ā just let the Instagram posts go over there), Blue Sky (we left Twitter/X), YouTube (just for posting content, not for interacting in comments) and I keep up with a few work related subreddits on Reddit. No TikTok. I see plenty of TikToks on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube.
Because I have to have accounts on those for work I have personal ones too. I am most active on Facebook and Reddit personally. I also like TripAdvisor. I read some on SubStack but donāt post content there or comment.
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