Use the Hide function and lists on Facebook and make use of your lists on Twitter.

I use Facebook the most since majority of my friends use it especially for college. A lot of my friends create personal and private study groups via the facebook group option which I love because we can share notes or our music compositions. I do realise that facebook changes and updates alot but I’ve got the knack of controlling this with friend lists and the hide function. I dont use any other networks it except for soundcloud ( a music network) which is quite simple. I think its good to have one social network and learn to use it really well whatever it might be at least for social reasons. Everything in moderation. Then again I have Libra

huh. no spam on G+ but i’m not trying to use it as a business contact port, either.
i have G+ and facebook mostly under control. twitter overwhelms me. the people i want to read just post too much (news folk.)

Just killed my FB for this very reason. I’m on twitter but only active there during political elections – it’s linked to journalists and other political types, no friends really.

Despite the world push for everyone to adopt social media, I’ve realized it is not for me. It’s too hectic, too stressful, too much of everything and everyone. It bombards my life, affects my day, mood, pace and everything else. So I took back control.

If people want me, they can email me. Despite having a business to run, I just refuse to use the social media crap. Only true friends and family are on my google+ – absolutely no one else. Life is slowly starting to feel better. And it’s not affecting business adversely by not participating. The whole thing (social media) seems a scam now.

Elsa,

of course you are feeling very ‘excited’/ good with/about Twitter!!!

It is very involved, very militant, with ‘a voice’. A very ‘uranian’ one.

Twitter was launched during that conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, isn’t it? Something like this if I remember well. And you Elsa have a natal conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, isn’t it?

Facebook belongs to Neptune= lies, big lies, fake images about ‘yourself’, too much cheap PR, piiiics…and just pics, again. Very Neptune!!!

Twitter is the militant Aries with an involved opinion. An Uranus-ian one. Twitter has already a voice. Facebook…very soon….with that Saturn through ‘profoooound’ Scorpio….will loose it. More and more. Day after day.

And Twitter will have a long enough life. At least until 2018.

With Neptune through Pisces starting with February….will be…just an album full of holidays pics.

P.S: it was indeed ‘a creation of a masterpiece’ last week, indeed, Elsa!

I keep them all for professional reasons, but enjoy Twitter the most. I think I’d like Google+ more if more people I am connected to were actively using it, I like the interface and control over sharing better. Was a little disappointed to see them introduce games, though, as it looks like a FB-wannabe. I’m constantly deleting the game feeds and invitations. How the Hell do people have time for that junk?

Facebook, I will check, as I have people who contact me that way and maintain some connections to people I’d otherwise not. But it’s kind of hard, to read people posting about what an idiot/mean/selfish person I am (based on beliefs andpolitics), and then have the same people turn around and ask me for free web advice or something. Kind of like getting kicked in the gut repeatedly and then asked for money. It’s impacted my emotional investment.

Couple of my siblings (back home) have tried to get me on all three…. *Bleh* so far I have resisted.

I have learned via “school of hard knocks” to severely limit how much I get involved in something.

I prefer to limit my sociInternetrnet) activities to this Blog / Board. I get enough info / interaction here to satisfy my cravings.

So timely. Yes, I’ve been on a hide/block spree on Facebook. I’m so bored/annoyed with people who post nothing but those “chain stautses.” Also, there’s one particular distant friend on my list that I watch make the same relationship mistakes over and over, it’s maddening to the point that I’ve almost blocked her. Just before I hopped over to EE, I saw she posted she got a new job … I was like yay, finally something I can support!

I only barely like Twitter. It’s easy for me to control because it’s not my real name, and I have no qualms about unfollowing anybody! LOL

Facebook I like much better. I have no problem hiding people that get on my nerves from my newsfeed.

Yes, I have full control of my social networks by not being part of any of them.

My Saturn is in 12th so I’m hiding from almost everyone and live in my own world.

I really enjoy facebook, although I never expected to. I refuse to add people as friends unless I know them in real life to some extent (with a very very few exceptions) and if somebody only posts garbage, poof, gone. It’s reconnected me with people from my exchange year that I otherwise probably wouldn’t talk to at all, and makes event co-ordination fairly painless.

Twitter… meh. Maybe if I knew how to use it more effectively I’d be more into it, but not real motivated to learn.

I’m just not on that stuff. Facebook makes me intensely paranoid. I don’t want to cruised or stalked or “found.” I’ve got shit to do. I don’t have a beta for Google+.

I’ve used Twitter for different web projects. When the project is over, the feed is gone.

I haven’t been a fulltime freelancer for a couple years now, but now that I’m working I can not imagine where I would get the time for one more app.

Twitter is too busy a lot of the time. Hashtags, @s, slashes, sentences fragments, overposts, spam feeds… It’s all really frazzling for me. Twitter requires that you be vigilant of who you follow and why because the communication is so concentrated. On Twitter, someone you don’t know who posts 80 times a day creates a new level of annoyance. It’s also overly commercialized; seems to me news sources quote Twitter more than any other legitimate source. I like that Kathy Griffin calls is Twatting. However, it is like a straight shot to the veins of Internet and that is a whole lot of fun.

The Facebook mode is more letting the site decide what you should see, what you need to see, who is important. It’s more intuitive, creepily and invasively so sometimes. They couldn’t get their privacy shit in line, it’s really overexposed like MySpace and I think a lot of people will switch to Twitter soon (esp. people in rural areas where Twitter hasn’t really caught on). Facebook is so over it’s like Lady Gaga in drag, you just look at it like “Really?”

If I weren’t so addicted to having a built-in audience I would give up on the whole damn social media thing. That is basically impossible at this point in history though so we’ll see! It’s a very interesting tie to be alive that’s for sure.

PS I can’t see the logic of this: “I don’t want to spend that much time constantly changing my privacy settings and setting what people see what and all that drama”

I set my privacy settings very tight when I joined and every few months I check that is all still tight. I have everything set to ‘Friends only’ and keep my list of friends pretty lean, though it’s crept up to c165 now which is more than enough.

I do have a few people I don’t know irl on there (inc four from here! tho mostly people in racing) but if anyone starts to bug me they go straight on ‘hide’ and sometimes get deleted altogether. That esp includes people who post a lot of political stuff (more so if I disagree with their politics!)