Has social media changed you in any significant way?

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    I'm sure some of this can be attributed to personal growth but I feel like being a part of online communities over the years has helped me appreciate the personalities and opinions of people around me more. Before I started frequenting forums I hardly paid attention to anyone who wasn't in my close circle of friends. Not that I treated others badly, but internally I didn't value people as much. Now it's gotten to the point where I've even found myself crushing on people even though I don't know what they look like.

    I also feel like I've become more introspective and opened up a lot thanks to social media. Perhaps too much in some people's eyes but in real life there's more pressure to soldier on and keep most of your problems to yourself. So sometimes it's very tempting to compensate for that online where you can find people more willing to listen and talk with you.

    Feel free to list any positive or negative changes in yourself that you feel social media has played a part in.
     
    Going on forums was one of the best decisions I've made in my life:

    ...It screwed with my sleep schedule entirely over the last 7 years...
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    Mainstream social media has thankfully made next to zero impact on me.

    The PokéCommunity was the center of my first relationship, and acts as a crossroads between my closest friend and I. It's where I've pooled hundreds of dollars in the interest of keeping worthwhile people connected, and is where I've spent the past three years draining all my spare time. I won't be able to comprehend the magnitude of this place until I'm in my forties or fifties, mark my words. Most of you folks who spend a few years here won't either. Trust me on that, and yes, even if you think "oh I'll just move on," you'll look back in your silver years and think about what it actually was. It was a slice of the cake comprising your youth.

    Maybe not as big a slice as what I have, but hey. Most of us have lives :b
     
    I barely use any social media, outside of forums. I haven't touched twitter in ages, and I only use facebook to get invited to parties, so I don't think it has changed me that much.

    Forums don't have changed me that much either, I think. I don't tend to form very close relationships on here. I mean, I like you guys a lot, but I have a closer bond to almost all my real friends. I don't think it influenced me all that much outside of my pixelwork.
     
    I think joining PC was pretty much the best decision I ever made, given my other attempts at making friends on social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook didn't go so well which explains why I barely touched my accounts there these days.

    But social media has definitely helped me with my anti-social issues, at least for the online side of things. Real life, eh not so much. I can just never socialize well outside of an online setting.
     
    I'm... not really sure. I think it has made me a bit more social with people. Then again, there is still the challenge of actually talking to them. So, I don't know if it's really changed me. *shrug* As for PC, yes. It has changed me as a person. Why, PC is what made the person I am today. It's helped me learn to grow up some and not be as immature as I was.
     
    I don't really think that social media has changed me at all, but thats what I pretty much. I mean, it probably did change me, I just don't feel. I know for sure it changed my brother, don't even ask about it. I do admit I use mainstream social media apps just to fit in with the rest of the world.
     
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    Oh yeah, I mean, I used to be pretty shy around people, and at that point I'm really glad that I had forums and social media as a way to talk to people. Otherwise I probably just plain ol' wouldn't have communicated much with anyone. In a way, gaining friends online helped me become more confident offline, too. For a while I had some issues that I was going through, and actually PC was one of the first places I ever actually talked about them, which kind of paved the way to working them out in general.

    I'm not super active here nowadays, so I don't get that personal anymore, but this place was pretty helpful in the past.

    Even on Tumblr I've made a chunk of friends, and I even met one of them at a convention recently. It was a fun weekend. I'm definitely glad that I'm active in social media. I really enjoy my fandoms, and these places are all my outlets for them. So. Good times. I do believe I'm happier with myself offline because I've joined these places.
     
    I don't do social media really. I guess if you count the forums then yeah it has changed me a lot. Other than that though I can't say it has had a significant impact on any aspect of my life.
     
    Since I don't have a Facebook or Twitter or any of those "social" doohickeys, I can't say social media has changed me all that much. Sure on PC I'm more open to people than I'd normally be, but that hasn't really passed onto real life.
     
    I use Facebook to find out if girls I have crushes on have a boyfriend so I can back off.
     
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