#4 - Social Media

Mana1

Mana1

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    I can vouch that both of these folk use Twitter obsessively ;D

    I have one of everything ^_^. Facebook for friends/family, Twitter for online/news/stalking and then instagram and the like too.
     
    Facebook to keep in touch with irl people, Twitter to keep in touch with online people. Usually I may allow *some* online people to have my facebook but for now, Twitter is my only online hub for online friends.

    I have tumblr as well, which is something I need to use often.
     
    I mostly use Tumblr these days, since it tends to be where I dig up the pics in my avatars/sigs, or at least most of them. My Twitter tends to be on-and-off, Facebook was something I don't bother with, and the only thing I do on YouTube is commenting on the videos.
     
    I don't use much personal accounts on social media that often. However I run a number of profiles for various games and the like. Something I'm getting more and more interested in lately is Marketing & Communications, and it's certainly something I'd like to study once I finish my current degree.

    The ones I use from a marketing perspective are Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and tumblr. Each one has a different kind of audience pull with varying degrees of activity and strategies I use to ensure the best interactions possible.

    The only social media I really use from a personal perspective are Twitter (every couple of days), and Facebook which I rarely ever post on.
     
    the social media i usually use is twitter. i only look on tumblr,facebook, and instagram. i wanna get more active on tumblr again though.
     
    I mostly just use tumblr these days! I have a facebook for keeping up with people but mostly it's just tumblr :P
     
    I don't use much social media, and the sites I use I don't really get on there too much. The sites I do use:

    1.) Facebook- I get on there every few days. I mainly get on there to see what friends from school and family are up to. Besides that it doesn't interest me much, most of the time I just see depressing **** or pictures of how awesome other people's lives are. I do like to see other people's pictures a lot though so I don't know why I'm complaining.

    2.) Instagram- I do go on this one quite a bit more. I don't post many pictures on there but I do like to look at other people's pictures! I also like to look a places like today I looked at the Ozarks for like 2 hours because we may be taking a trip there this semester for a weekend.

    3.- Goodreads?- I guess you could count that as social media? I get on there to see what friends are reading and look for new books that may interest me. I like to write reviews of books sometimes on there even though I get so off topic sometimes that I just ramble on.
     
    I'm trying to move part of my career to specialize in social media - although I still have a lot to go.
    I use quite a range of social media and frequently use a lot of them:
    • Facebook - Pretty much for family, but I do also add a few close online friends as well.
    • Twitter - Have 2 accounts. 1 that I have under this name and mostly for online activities, but I've recently made another more professional twitter account for networking.
    • Tumblr - Literal trash xD I have a lot of fandom blogs and one I had to keep for design school.
    • Pinterest - I use it mostly for keep track on inspiration - especially on the artistic and design side.
    • Youtube - I'm really wanting to make a few design/filmy based videos, but I'm still on the planning stages for it.

    The ones that I have don't use as much
    • Twitch - Mostly used to watch friends' streams and to comment while they're streaming - I don't stream myself though.
    • LinkedIn - Networking and stuff for RL purposes, but I only use it when I need to update stuff.
    • Snapchat - Used mostly to send "hey look at this thing I saw" pictures to other people, but I use it more to receive than to send stuff, but I've been using it more frequently recently.
    • Instagram - I do use it to upload photos, but I haven't been using it frequently.
    • deviantART - For uploading art/design stuffs and talking to other artists and designers.
    • Meetup - Would you count that though? I use it to keep track of our Local Game Dev meetups and talk to other local game devs from my city.
     
    I mainly use Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Maybe a little bit of Snapchat here and there. Facebook is mainly for personal things. Where as Twitter is for online things. I should get around to making myself a personal Twitter account to have for more professional reasons.
     
    I use Facebook and YouTube but not very much. Facebook is for family and friends. YouTube is for just random videos such as recordings of me playing songs on the piano.
     
    I use media, but I'm not particularly social about it.

    If it counts, I use this forum. I also have a shiny new Wordpress blog, a Tumblr I occasionally spam with pictures of stuff I like, and a Twitter and Facebook I use once in a blue moon.
     
    i use facebook, insta and snapchat pretty religiously hahaha. they're all pretty different but complement each other well imo. i've grown more and more in love with instagram as i've gotten better with photography. i've recently upgraded my phone to one that doesn't die 5 minutes after i turn on data so i'm snapchatting more avidly now as well lol.

    i've always been a massive fan of social media haha. i think it's a really powerful tool if used correctly (both on a personal level and on a business level) and i love seeing what people and organisations do with social media.
     
    I like social media, despite the massive amount of people (particularly the older generation) who sook, wine and complain about it like it's carcinogenic. I don't regularly use too many social media outlets really. Facebook and snapchat are the ones I use regularly, whilst instagram is one I used on a semi-regular-whenever-I-feel-like-posting-a-good-pic basis.
     
    I tend to use alot of social media;

    Instagram - Mainly use this more to look at rather than upload to it.

    Twitter - I use this to keep up to date with what's going on in life, worldwide and closely with my mates

    Facebook - Keep track of what's going on with my mates and Family (Rarely used)

    If whatsapp is classed as one I used this alot, I don't even text message anymore ;_;
     
    I mostly use Instagram and Twitter. I seldom use Facebook because I don't have a lot of friends there. I'm also one of the few people who still has a LiveJournal to this day as well. XD The only time I've ever used Tumblr is during my obsessions. Though, I seem to have gotten rather tired of that though. XD
     
    I've been using Facebook a lot more now just to keep in touch with my family in California as well as keeping in touch with my irl friends here in Houston. I try to keep irl away from twitter.
     
    I used to play a lot of Diablo III and ran a YouTube channel specifically catered to that. I was (and still am) partnered with the Curse network, and at the channel's peak (around early/mid 2014) I averaged around 200-300K views per month. My last video caught some traction and broke 100K views in about a month, but that's not enough to keep me making content there. Not fun for me anymore.

    I also had a Twitter account associated with it and I was quite active in the community. For some reason I'm still picking up followers on that account despite tweeting like... twice in the last couple months.

    I've left that game's world for good (but I still keep in touch with friends I made there). Nowadays I'm boosting activity on my new Twitter account and YouTube channel associated with the Pokémon visual novel I've been working on for the last four months.

    They're both doing pretty well to start. The Twitter account's gained nearly 300 followers in the last month (rate is still around 10 new followers per day) and has a reach of approximately 160K impressions. Should break 500 followers before the end of the month, but I'd prefer to shoot the impressions number to at least 250K. Engagement rate's pretty good at around 3%. Even some big brands have major issues with engagement rates. Many I've worked with are around 2% or less. The average is only a mere 1 to 1.5%.

    The YouTube account's gained over 150 out of its 180 subscribers in the last month and 3.5K views out of its 4K lifetime. Hoping to escalate it to 1K subs and 10-20K monthly views by April, but I'll need to time to produce supporting content. Still, considering each video I've been uploading in the last couple weeks essentially made up close to 90% of the channel's views, as long as the content is sustained, there should be no growth issues. I did have to unlist or set some videos to private as they're no longer relevant, but in the long run they won't matter.

    Both Twitter/YouTube accounts were created in September, but activity really started around the first week of December. Still tough to grow from scratch, especially with a full-time job. Anything media-related usually has to wait until I get home from work.

    Social media fun! It's been a while since I started new accounts from scratch I forgot what it's like to grow.

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    For personal day-to-day use, I go with Facebook. I used to go ham with it back when I was in school, but nowadays I just look at family photos and periodically throw a witty quip based on what I see and hear at the time. Hell, my parents, uncles and aunts are more active on Facebook than I am.

    I also use LinkedIn for the professional world. I strongly suggest creating and filling out a profile if you don't have one. No one wants to worry about missing leads for career opportunities.
     
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    i have disappeared from social media p much because adult life? is hard? PC is the most online interaction i do .3. facebook is for if old people want to get in contact with me. instagram has no use since i got fat. i scroll tumblr for like ten minutes like twice a week. i've used twitter literally twice this year wtf.

    also i dont need to fill my social interaction voids anymore like. while i love my online friends and communities and projects, i live with four other people my own age who have similar interests and lives as i do. i work 40hrs/wk at a daycare and tutor teenagers on top of that. my allocations of time have shifted a lot :( i do skype people pretty frequently, but usually only if they prompt me because i'm a terrible friend
     
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