At what age did you first start using social media?

[blubblubblub]

I was around 12/13 when I got my instagram account, wasn't 14 till I started to properly use social media tho.

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[Bruce_VVayne_]

I guess I was 14, but think it like when my high school was just ended, there wasn't any android phones. No whatsapp, no insta, no snap no anything.

[Bruce_VVayne_]

Me, because I am Batman.

[Bruce_VVayne_]

Thanks! I wish you a peaceful year without spiders or snakes in Australia

[blubblubblub]

lol thank you ahah

[Bruce_VVayne_]

Is there any?

[PapaFranku03]

When I was 11 or 12. Facebook was my first account.

[blubblubblub]

interesting

[PapaFranku03]

Very much.

[PapaFranku03]

I do.

[PapaFranku03]

Thanks again blubbleb.

[blubblubblub]

*blubblubblub. three consecutive blubs, its not that hard smh

[PapaFranku03]

I'm lazy to type that shit.

[blubblubblub]

smHHHHHHHHhhH PAP

[PapaFranku03]

Bleb okay!

[blubblubblub]

booo

[CarpetDenim]

I still haven’t

[CarpetDenim]

I do I do I do

[CarpetDenim]

Thank you

[blubblubblub]

ywww

[Schrodingerscat]

Around 14 or so

[Schrodingerscat]

Me!!!

[Schrodingerscat]

Thanks for mho!

[blubblubblub]

npppp!

[ak667]

I think I was in my 20s and wasn't that interested until everyone was asking me for my MySpace (and later Mixi and Facebook). And I figured maybe I ought to get one if everyone is so interested. I thought we could just exchange phone numbers or something, but suddenly everyone wants to exchange social media contacts, and so I had to sort of catch up with the trend. I never used them much though except to arrange when to hang out with people in person.

[blubblubblub]

what was MySpace even like, does anyone still use it?

[ak667]

I thought it was awful because it allowed so much customization in terms of appearance that most people's pages looked so wacky... and often tacky, like sometimes white backgrounds with yellow text you could barely weird, or repeated tiling background images that made it hard to read anything... and if I recall correctly, you could have sounds or music play when people visited your profile, so often I'd get that combined with tacky backgrounds and images all over the place.

With Facebook, they had the sense to limit customization (which isn't a bad thing in my opinion) so that everyone's page looks reasonably consistent.

[ak667]

[...] and often tacky, like sometimes white backgrounds with yellow text you could barely [/read] [...],

[blubblubblub]

lol sounds really animated and fun

[ak667]

Like this:
theblacksheeponline.com/.../...s-holtschneider.jpg

Giving the average person with no design skills the ability to customize their layout that much isn't a very good idea in my opinion.

[blubblubblub]

LOL at least it gives people the ability to showcase their personality, do people still use it

[ak667]

Or this:
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>> LOL at least it gives people the ability to showcase their personality, do people still use it

Maybe some. I still have an ancient account buried somewhere that I've not logged into for maybe almost two decades.

But it was a nightmare to navigate, and when I visited some of my friend's profiles I'd get bombarded with image and audio... sometimes with noisy audio that would shock me and make me almost fall out of the chair.

[blubblubblub]

very interesting

[ak667]

In Japan we have one called Mixi which is very popular, and it is maybe closer to FB than MySpace. But one of the interesting features is that your friends can write a description about you, and that shows up on your profile... so other people can describe how you are like other than yourself.

[blubblubblub]

omg mods need to add that on gag

[ak667]

It is a cool feature but you probably don't want to add random people from the internet as friends, since they could write all sorts of shit on your profile to describe you. But the way Japanese use social media, including Mixi, tends to be limited mostly to actual friends in real life... not like add weird random people left and right.

[blubblubblub]

oh true, all the trolls would unite and take advantage of it lmao

[ak667]

Here the way me and my friends use social media is to arrange hang outs... like a wedding or a birthday party or any other social event. It becomes difficult to call everyone and see if they can attend while making reservations, whereas with social media we can group chat, arrange an event, allow people to click if they can attend or not... that sort of thing. It's mostly used to kind of enhance real-life social encounters... not like a "separate virtual world".

[ak667]

I always felt like that's the right way to use social media... as opposed to say, some girl adding all kinds of weirdos on the internet as friends and getting like 5,000+ friends while posting pictures of her ass for people to click "like".

[blubblubblub]

i mean that's how it was intended to work, but yah its become this online world lmao. i rarelyyyyyy ever talk to people from irl on social media, that's the funny thing.

[ak667]

In my opinion that one Mixi feature helps to make it used as intended.. when the people you add as friends can add their own brief descriptions to your profile, it gives you an incentive to discriminate... even if you don't know the person in real life, you don't want to be adding totally random strangers with that feature in place... otherwise they might write all sorts of shit which can be a nuisance and cause you to remove them (which does remove their description) and think twice about adding weird random people.

[Moezan]

Occasionally used MSN Messenger when I was 10/11, that was probs my first time ever. But my first proper account was Facebook when I was 12 lol. My dad didn't want me to get any social media until much later, but at the end of Year 6 I ended up getting Straight A's, and he allowed me to get whatever I wanted. I ended up asking for a FB account, coz all my friends said it was the shit at the time.

Can confirm that was the wackest decision i've ever made lmfao

[blubblubblub]

FB HA

[witherwing]

My mom forced me to make a Facebook profile at 13, because my parents were going through a divorce and she thought that would be a good way to keep in touch. MySpace and some others followed soon after, but social media wasn't too popular back then yet.

[humptydumpty01]

Around 15
But actually started using it around 17
But I hate social media
I'm only using Facebook and I haven't used it since past few weeks

[blubblubblub]

what don't u like

[humptydumpty01]

Mostly because of presence of a lot of jokers there plus it consumes a lot of time as well
I use that time in the gym 😋

[SelfishGuy]

If chatrooms and messengers count... then probably when I was 13yrs.. that's 1998.

[blubblubblub]

DAMN

[SelfishGuy]

😆 you still beat me!!!

[blubblubblub]

TRUE LOL

[daynamariex]

Got MSN and piczo when I was 10/11. Bebo when I was about 12/13. Facebook and everything else when I was 13/14 I think. My oldest nephew/nieces have got snapchat/instagram, starting from as young as 9.

[Tet01]

I opened my facebook account when I was 11 years old. Though I started using it actively when I was 13 years old. As for Instagram I opened my first account when I was 14 and became active instantly

[Noodlee]

14 I think but a lot of my ex-friends were already on Facebook at 8/9 years old (which I don't really understand or agree with tbh)

[aaronbw]

I never really cared for social media til I was 17 or 18. All I needed was a phone and I could text and call qs many friends as I wanted. When I went to college is when I got into things like facebook and so forth.

[ManFrom1982]

Well it didn't really exist until I was in high school and didn't take off until I was in college... You young 'ens 😂😂

[TheBogeymanJPN]

I first created my Facebook account at like 12/13 but I only spent my time playing silly games like FarmVille or YoVille #notproud.

[Muhammad1999]

i had facebook around age 10 , then slowly started to use other social medias

[blubblubblub]

interestant

[TsundereMatrix]

I think back when MySpace was a thing. I was like 13.

[claratanry]

i got instagram when i was 11, but didn't really use it until i was 12/13

[ZanyInternetName]

I don't use social media, unless you want to include fora in that.

[weasley8]

I started using social media when I was 13. Then I got rid of it a year later because I had a stalker. I have accounts again now, but I rarely ever post. Maybe one instagram picture per year.

[Drumlin2001]

Social media didn't exist when i were young.
I had a Friends Reunited account from 18/19 i think

[Pizza_lover159]

15 when I got in highschool , because our teacher made us to do it to have a group on whats app so we can get homework etc.

[fantasticass]

I started social media about 5 years ago. Before that I never had a computer. I had a landline phone, no cell phone.

[chrisbigman]

Hmm... Facebook came out about 2004 or 2005. And I was 20? Yeah. 20 or 21.