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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    I only use the term Social Media, because that is what it is called. And I think it is interesting the varying degrees which everyone uses these avenues.
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    I am not on Twitter or Facebook or instagram. This forum is the only way I interact with people from all over the world. Are these forums considered social media?
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
    edited November 2014
    I remove annoying facebook "friends" posts from my feed so that I just see family and friends that I care to see plus my news feed. I'm pretty happy with facebook now that I've done that but it still doesn't let me hide my comments, etc. from my feed. It used to have an option for that which was really nice because I don't like having my comments available for everyone to read.
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited November 2014
    Last-12-Exit said:

    I am not on Twitter or Facebook or instagram. This forum is the only way I interact with people from all over the world. Are these forums considered social media?

    Social Media is currently defined as interaction via the internet with others that you would normally have no communication with, so yes. Chat rooms were the original " real time" Social Media and before that the BBS message formats... It then evolved into the avenues we use today..Twitter, Facebook etc. so in a variable aspect along that liquid definition, I'd say this Forum IS a form of Social Media to a degree.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    I keep Facebook out of vanity. Total unabashed vanity. My wife and I kayak, raft, fish, backpack, rock climb, hike, camp, and travel on a very regular basis. I don't know anyone else who gets out on adventures as much as we do, and when I didn't have Facebook I missed having a platform to show off the amazing things we do. I talk a big game and sometimes o get the feeling that people think I'm full of shit when i say we are going on a climbing trip in the Alps, kayaking the Adriatic, or backpacking 50 miles in the Blue Ridge mountains. I know most people don't really care, but I vainly need to prove that we are out living life to the fullest. Secondarily I hope we inspire people to get out more, but if I am honest it is more about showing off.
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    rgambs said:

    I keep Facebook out of vanity. Total unabashed vanity. My wife and I kayak, raft, fish, backpack, rock climb, hike, camp, and travel on a very regular basis. I don't know anyone else who gets out on adventures as much as we do, and when I didn't have Facebook I missed having a platform to show off the amazing things we do. I talk a big game and sometimes o get the feeling that people think I'm full of shit when i say we are going on a climbing trip in the Alps, kayaking the Adriatic, or backpacking 50 miles in the Blue Ridge mountains. I know most people don't really care, but I vainly need to prove that we are out living life to the fullest. Secondarily I hope we inspire people to get out more, but if I am honest it is more about showing off.

    Honesty is a beautiful thing!! Lol
  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    whispering hands said:

    Last-12-Exit said:

    I am not on Twitter or Facebook or instagram. This forum is the only way I interact with people from all over the world. Are these forums considered social media?

    Social Media is currently defined as interaction via the internet with others that you would normally have no communication with, so yes. Chat rooms were the original " real time" Social Media and before that the BBS message formats... It then evolved into the avenues we use today..Twitter, Facebook etc. so in a variable aspect along that liquid definition, I'd say this Forum IS a form of Social Media to a degree.
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    rgambs said:

    I keep Facebook out of vanity. Total unabashed vanity. My wife and I kayak, raft, fish, backpack, rock climb, hike, camp, and travel on a very regular basis. I don't know anyone else who gets out on adventures as much as we do, and when I didn't have Facebook I missed having a platform to show off the amazing things we do. I talk a big game and sometimes o get the feeling that people think I'm full of shit when i say we are going on a climbing trip in the Alps, kayaking the Adriatic, or backpacking 50 miles in the Blue Ridge mountains. I know most people don't really care, but I vainly need to prove that we are out living life to the fullest. Secondarily I hope we inspire people to get out more, but if I am honest it is more about showing off.

    I appreciate your honesty, but what you described makes me sad for you.
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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    know1 said:

    rgambs said:

    I keep Facebook out of vanity. Total unabashed vanity. My wife and I kayak, raft, fish, backpack, rock climb, hike, camp, and travel on a very regular basis. I don't know anyone else who gets out on adventures as much as we do, and when I didn't have Facebook I missed having a platform to show off the amazing things we do. I talk a big game and sometimes o get the feeling that people think I'm full of shit when i say we are going on a climbing trip in the Alps, kayaking the Adriatic, or backpacking 50 miles in the Blue Ridge mountains. I know most people don't really care, but I vainly need to prove that we are out living life to the fullest. Secondarily I hope we inspire people to get out more, but if I am honest it is more about showing off.

    I appreciate your honesty, but what you described makes me sad for you.
    Why would you think that? Gambs is really passionate about nature and wears it on his sleeve at all times.Nothing wrong with a little honest vanity.Im not on Facebook,but if I were,I could see checking out some of the photos Gambs puts up.Hell,just from what he described about his Euro trek for PJ shows it sounded awesome.
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    know1 said:

    rgambs said:

    I keep Facebook out of vanity. Total unabashed vanity. My wife and I kayak, raft, fish, backpack, rock climb, hike, camp, and travel on a very regular basis. I don't know anyone else who gets out on adventures as much as we do, and when I didn't have Facebook I missed having a platform to show off the amazing things we do. I talk a big game and sometimes o get the feeling that people think I'm full of shit when i say we are going on a climbing trip in the Alps, kayaking the Adriatic, or backpacking 50 miles in the Blue Ridge mountains. I know most people don't really care, but I vainly need to prove that we are out living life to the fullest. Secondarily I hope we inspire people to get out more, but if I am honest it is more about showing off.

    I appreciate pyour honesty, but what you described makes me sad for you.
    Lmao! Meanwhile, what he said, made ME jealous!! Lol. I would love to have the freedom financially and otherwise to go do those things!! Vain exhibition or no.. At least he's up front and honest about where he's coming from. I guess I can live vicariously through Mr. gambs! lol except I just get to read about it here.. Cause FB sucks! ;-)
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited November 2014
    know1 said:

    rgambs said:

    I keep Facebook out of vanity. Total unabashed vanity. My wife and I kayak, raft, fish, backpack, rock climb, hike, camp, and travel on a very regular basis. I don't know anyone else who gets out on adventures as much as we do, and when I didn't have Facebook I missed having a platform to show off the amazing things we do. I talk a big game and sometimes o get the feeling that people think I'm full of shit when i say we are going on a climbing trip in the Alps, kayaking the Adriatic, or backpacking 50 miles in the Blue Ridge mountains. I know most people don't really care, but I vainly need to prove that we are out living life to the fullest. Secondarily I hope we inspire people to get out more, but if I am honest it is more about showing off.

    I appreciate your honesty, but what you described makes me sad for you.

    I hyped the vanity a little too much, made it sound worse than it is.
    Don't feel sad for me, I LIVE MY LIFE WITH THE VOLUME FULL YEAH YEAH!
    In the year running between October 1 to this Oct 1 I saw Pearl Jam 6 times. I slept in a tent 28 nights. I logged somewhere over 70 wilderness miles. I visited 2 state parks in New York, 2 in New Hampshire, 2 in WV, 1 in Virginia, 1 in North Carolina, and 1 in Vermont. I visited Washington, Jefferson, Monongahela, Green Mountain, and White Mountain National Forests. I saw the sun rise somewhere beyond 40 times. There is no way to count the hours or number of times I was in my kayak as I go up to 4 times a week in peak season. I caught a 6 lb bass. I hiked or climbed in 9 mountain ranges. I kayaked on the Adriatic Sea, went to the Trieste show that night, and traversed a crazy scary ridgeline in the Austrian Alps 2 days later. 11 hours of rock climbing. I smoked 23 joints on a long weekend climbing trip atSeneca Rocks WV :). I climbed up and down 25,000+ feet of elevation. I ate exactly 6 handfuls of wild blueberries. I ate mushrooms 5 times (I'm done with that lol). I got my wife pregnant with our first :)
    I am sure I left some things out, and I don't count the daily hikes/jogs with my dogs in the woods in my hills where I live. Do I hope people are impressed? Yes I do. Does a person sleep on the ground for a months worth of nights for attention? Hahaha I doubt it!
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Great, just great.

    gambs and his ego and actually DOING STUFF makes me feel like a lazy mofo.

    [-(

    Kaaaat!!!
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Hahahaha!!
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    rr165892 said:

    know1 said:

    rgambs said:

    I keep Facebook out of vanity. Total unabashed vanity. My wife and I kayak, raft, fish, backpack, rock climb, hike, camp, and travel on a very regular basis. I don't know anyone else who gets out on adventures as much as we do, and when I didn't have Facebook I missed having a platform to show off the amazing things we do. I talk a big game and sometimes o get the feeling that people think I'm full of shit when i say we are going on a climbing trip in the Alps, kayaking the Adriatic, or backpacking 50 miles in the Blue Ridge mountains. I know most people don't really care, but I vainly need to prove that we are out living life to the fullest. Secondarily I hope we inspire people to get out more, but if I am honest it is more about showing off.

    I appreciate your honesty, but what you described makes me sad for you.
    Why would you think that? Gambs is really passionate about nature and wears it on his sleeve at all times.Nothing wrong with a little honest vanity.Im not on Facebook,but if I were,I could see checking out some of the photos Gambs puts up.Hell,just from what he described about his Euro trek for PJ shows it sounded awesome.
    Thanks for the vote of confidence! I definitely regret getting all pissy pants at you several times, once I started chillin in the lounge car my time on the train got decidedly more social and friendly.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    hedonist said:

    Great, just great.

    gambs and his ego and actually DOING STUFF makes me feel like a lazy mofo.

    [-(

    Kaaaat!!!

    Hahaha ssssshhh don't tell on me!
    I left off Venice, Vienna, sleeping in a 550 year old hotel, and about 10 bottles of Glenlivet ;). It was,by far, our best year yet. But on the other side, we don't eat out, watch TV, buy things or have a real internet connection ( no youtubing awesome PJ or Foo Fighters performances)
    Our adventures are going to be few and far between for a few years, our first baby is due in April and it won't have it's mountain legs under it for a bit lol
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    There's definitely an upside to social media. One time I posted a quote and mentioned I needed to renew my library card and out of nowhere my old English teacher/ family friend gave me her college books. The complete Norton Anthology of English Literature. I have spent hours upon hours in those books and read things I never thought I'd get to or be able to because she happened to see my quote from Milton at the right time.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    To me the best thing about social media is making new connections and re-establishing old ones. Now to someone like my wife, it's pretty much just a way to keep an eye on what the kids are up to, LOL! (She will admit it and they know it, hahaha!)

    It's also a good place to promote your work like I did with my book, especially when you are not an "A" type personality. (I'm a "D" an "C" type personality- Dazed and Confused. :-)) )
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Lol! I can definitely see how these avenues can be beneficial, I just feel it's not for me. I get too caught up.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1424200741200855&l=ad05b5c6e2

    Facebook told me you can view this even if you don't have an account.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    rgambs said:

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1424200741200855&l=ad05b5c6e2

    Facebook told me you can view this even if you don't have an account.

    Two things -

    One...whatta photo! Looks like you're standing on solidified ash.

    You would SO get along with my buddy/coworker, who has taken on some hikes and climbs that intimidate the hell out of me on so many levels.

    And two...Levi? I love the name (and as someone who digs taking a word and making other words out of it, yours is rife with results).

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