The last social platform you left and why you left it?

30-08-2020 11:21AM #1

I left Yahoo as a platform, I only now have an unimportant email address there.
It's a shell, and to be honest an echo chamber of its former self.

What platform have you stopped using could be serious or fun, from LinkedIn to Bebo.
Has it closed down since you left it?

biko · 02-09-2020 11:35AM

I have been thinking about leaving Facebook for some time but still haven't pulled the trigger.

Errashareesh · 02-09-2020 11:38AM

Twitter - that kind of derangement isn't good to be exposed to.

02-09-2020 11:40AM

None unless you count G+ but that went wallop.

McGinniesta · 02-09-2020 11:53AM

Twitter. It's a digital shytepipe.

I've also almost stopped using youtube completely. Susan and her lackeys have destroyed it and it's glory days are long gone.

Gregor Samsa · 02-09-2020 11:58AM

Had a Yahoo! account/email for years from about 1996. I can still log in, but I haven't used it since 2009. I logged in last year just to take a look, and all my old emails had been deleted. Was pretty pissed off about that.

We used to use Yahoo Messenger in work, as an unofficial communication tool that the company couldn't snoop on/you could control who had you on it. I had a seperate account just for that, but we switched to Skype and I can't remember the login now.

Can't be arsed to formally close my accounts, so they just sits there.

I fully expect the same thing to happen to my Facebook, Google, Apple and Boards accounts within my lifetime. Something will replace all of these. There was a time when the likes of Yahoo! and AOL were the internet.

I have a Twitter account, but don't use it at all. Same with Instagram. Just set them up to see what they were about, and they didn't interest me.

02-09-2020 12:13PM

The way Twitter works you can make it exactly what you want by following what you want. If it's ****e then you're following ****e.

ILoveYourVibes · 02-09-2020 12:15PM

i didn't really delete them but i haven't been on fb for months ....people stopped using it ..moved to whatsapp ..I HATE whatsapp...its more socially awkward you can't just have a profile you have to join a group and you don't control who is in it.

ILoveYourVibes · 02-09-2020 12:17PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

The way Twitter works you can make it exactly what you want by following what you want. If it's ****e then you're following ****e.

interesting ...the people we are attracted to follow to can bore us sometimes.

COVID · 02-09-2020 12:20PM

Bebo...it left me.

02-09-2020 12:24PM

I'm only on Facebook, boards.ie and Reddit. No plans to leave any of them. Messaging apps I wouldn't count. I rarely post on Facebook but it's an absolute necessity where I live.

Rawr · 02-09-2020 12:26PM

Bebo
Reason Left: Became a GIF-tastic visual mess. It was getting painful to browse other people's profiles.
Still alive?: Suprisingly yes....just about...

Hi5
Reason Left: Devolved into the trashiest of dating sites you can imagine.
Still alive?: Suprisingly yes....but riddled with bots...

Google+
Reason Left: I stayed until the end. Was pretty good for networking to new people.
Still alive?: Reformatted as Google Currents (for Business)

Ello
Reason Left: Became a sort of hipster waistland where edgy modern artists would post up stuff to be promoted by Ello's "curators". Very little interaction from anyone. Instead of a Facebook killler it became a deserted online gallery for pretentious artists.
Still alive?: Yes, but they're nowhere near where they hoped to be.

02-09-2020 12:37PM

McGinniesta wrote: »

Twitter. It's a digital shytepipe.

I've also almost stopped using youtube completely. Susan and her lackeys have destroyed it and it's glory days are long gone.

Thinking myself about letting go too.

Full of angry people.

Right, has any boardsie the bottle to admit they were on myspace at one point or another?

JasonStatham · 02-09-2020 01:26PM

I was on myspace. Made friends with an American girl of all people. This is back before social media became annoying.

I used Tinder for a while, but just found it annoying. I would never use it again.

02-09-2020 01:41PM

JasonStatham wrote: »

I used Tinder for a while, but just found it annoying. I would never use it again.

I posted about it here earlier in the summer and now I'm just bored of it. I've a conversation sitting waiting for me to send a message and I just can't be bothered.

02-09-2020 01:44PM

Is yahoo a platform?..is it not just a website?

Gregor Samsa · 02-09-2020 01:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is yahoo a platform?..is it not just a website?

It used to be like Google - search engine, news feed, email, Yahoo Groups, Flickr, Geocities - loads of stuff combined into a platform with a single account. It hardly counts as one now, it's pretty much just a website with an email service.

02-09-2020 01:53PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is yahoo a platform?..is it not just a website?

A derelict entity.

Think of going into a derelict boarded up building (yes, they are a thing on youtube)

and looking around. You'll still see a television playing, something, but other than that, you might see a skeleton in an armchair.

there is nothing else.

TheBoyConor · 02-09-2020 01:53PM

Linkedin.

Secure, public sector professional job. Sick of recruiters messaging me about amazing opportunities for workig for contractors for 3 or 4 months.

Yeah, you want me to jack in a permanent, pensionable public sector job to go work 14 hour days in the muck and shít for some yahoo contractor client of yours that might decide they can't be bothered paying me. No thanks my dear.

Unless you're looking for a job, linkedin is no use. And public sector jobs for the most part don't advertise on linkedin. It is all through the PAS.

02-09-2020 01:54PM

But like, it's the internet.. things move on.. did you have yahoo friends like?

02-09-2020 01:59PM

Deleted User wrote: »

did you have yahoo friends like?

I guess the skeleton could well have been one in that derelict building I visited :->

Bobbins · 02-09-2020 01:59PM

biko wrote: »

I have been thinking about leaving Facebook for some time but still haven't pulled the trigger.

Do it, pull the trigger. FB is a toxic cesspit of hatred and judgment. I left it years ago, it added nothing to my life yet drained my time. You will quickly discover that you are not missing out on anything

I'm not on any social sites except this one where it seems to be much easier to ignore the negative posts spoiling for an argument.

02-09-2020 02:03PM

I've never seen anything remotely close to hate on Facebook. It's all just posts of random prayers, lost dogs, and warnings about white vans in the area. Do you all mean in the groups or something?

Gregor Samsa · 02-09-2020 02:07PM

Deleted User wrote: »

But like, it's the internet.. things move on.. did you have yahoo friends like?

People would have had friends on Yahoo Groups for sure. Didn't use that very much myself, but at one stage it was the largest online discussion boards platform in the world.

Strumms · 02-09-2020 02:10PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I've never seen anything remotely close to hate on Facebook. It's all just posts of random prayers, lost dogs, and warnings about white vans in the area. Do you all mean in the groups or something?

Same, my experience with fb is fine. The only people I’m friends with on FB are people whom I know in real life, people whom I like, trust and get on with.

The only things that appear in my newsfeeds are stuff from pages I’m following....

News, sport, fitness, music, events etc...

Calahonda52 · 02-09-2020 02:15PM

TheBoyConor wrote: »

Linkedin.

Secure, public sector professional job. Sick of recruiters messaging me about amazing opportunities for workig for contractors for 3 or 4 months.

Yeah, you want me to jack in a permanent, pensionable public sector job to go work 14 hour days in the muck and shít for some yahoo contractor client of yours that might decide they can't be bothered paying me. No thanks my dear.

Unless you're looking for a job, linkedin is no use. And public sector jobs for the most part don't advertise on linkedin. It is all through the PAS.

I see this differently.
I am in a few closed technical groups which work really well.
The professional contacts are good

02-09-2020 02:32PM

Left facebook long ago, due to all the privacy issues. Didn't like what they were doing with my details/photos/etc. The groups were of a lesser concern, but by the time I left, I found that there was a lot of negativity and almost peer pressure within many groups. A need to conform to acceptable group opinions.

I did Myspace, Yahoo, etc before that, but lost interest pretty quickly. Have never touched twitter, and have zero desire to do so.

Linkedin is probably the only one I've kept going (apart from boards), but only because it's so damn useful for work opportunities. I limit the interactive aspects of it, and don't engage in much networking beyond the basics.

TBH I just don't have the energy/patience anymore for much online stuff.

02-09-2020 02:35PM

I left Facebook a few years back.

rustynutz · 02-09-2020 02:50PM

I left FB a few years ago but went back to it after a few months as I was missing out on events etc. for various hobbies I'm involved in as they were all advertised on FB or through FB group messenger. These days I post very little and just use it for the various groups as these seem to have replaced online forums largely. Also the Marketplace is useful and appears to have replaced donedeal.

Errashareesh · 02-09-2020 03:07PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

The way Twitter works you can make it exactly what you want by following what you want. If it's ****e then you're following ****e.

It's true. And I'll probably set up a new account as you have to be logged in to read some tweets, but I'll be more careful about what topics I follow.

I got drawn down the transgender debate rabbit hole though - which is interesting to me, and with lots of balanced tweets/people, but the hate towards women who simply argue that biology is real is appalling.

I don't find Facebook toxic either, but that's just because I don't get involved with the big viral discussions, as that would take years off you.

Bobbins · 02-09-2020 03:33PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I've never seen anything remotely close to hate on Facebook. It's all just posts of random prayers, lost dogs, and warnings about white vans in the area. Do you all mean in the groups or something?

That's interesting. I never had friends on Facebook, I just used it for groups for info re new baby, diet etc. Like a previous poster, if I ever dared have a differing opinion, the vultures would descend. It reminded me of being in school. No thanks! Glad to see it's not everyone's experience!

The last social platform you left and why you left it?

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