Digital fixations?
 

Which digital fixations do you have ?

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No facebook but I do Reddit far more than I should.

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Wot no porn?

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I have environment Canada, words with friends and DCC crossword...

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I've just de-activated my Facebook page for the duration of the summer holidays. I only signed up for it once I knew we were moving to Canada, and have 'justified' using it (in my mind) as 'keeping in contact'. I look at it far too many times a day. I know more about what is going on where I used to live, than where I live now. I think I am also a 'victim' of the reinforcing nature of my news feed. I'm not going to start reading the Daily Mail, just a few more books.

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I ticked yes to shopping but it's really vacation planning I do, without spending í ½í¸

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I was thinking that, where's PornHub?


The internet is for laughing, porning and shopping in that order. If you can find a funny porno set in a supermarket then you can get all three at once.

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Believe it or not a quick google suggests the category does actually exist.:ohmy:

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Quite, supermarket porn is a humourless genre; it wouldn't hurt the participants to crack a smile once in a while.

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I feel like Indiana Jones and I've just uncovered the lost ark... The search is over... I need to sit down and take it all in (coincidently that is what the checkout girl said in that 'erotic film')

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Social media and instagram are separate?

Facebook own instagram.

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Facebook own a broad spectrum of companies, from social media to UAVs and facial recognition technology.

I regard instagram as different to social media. I think instagram is more a photo sharing/hosting site. I regard social media as having a news feed and messenging capability. But admittedly the boundaries are blured.

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So., who has voted and NOT ticked the 'online forums'. I always thought that BE was an online forum...:sneaky:

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Not me. That was the only one I ticked. I occasionally look at one other category, but I'm certainly not fixated with it.

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Really? Tell that to any teen or pre-teen. Instagram is the social media and messaging platform of choice for all those whose parents won't allow them unfettered access to SnapChat.

Aside from this and one or two other forums, I use Facebook primarily to stalk old friends keep in touch with far-flung family, but don't do a lot of other online stuff.

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I checked out the actual definition of social media and it appears you guys are correct, my interpretation of what social media is was different to the actual definition.


The definition is:
'websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.'
Which by that definition is a lot of sites/applications.


Like a man in orthopaedic shoes.. I stand corrected.

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Yes technically IG is social media, but mainly, I suspect amongst the youth. It's not a full on social media experience from what I can tell. I like it for the photo shares and a few live stories.

I made the poll because I watched a story on digital detox on BBC. I am starting to think that even constantly checking the news etc is a kind of digital addiction which has crept in on some of us of a certain age.

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This. Definitely. Although I think the addiction started to creep up on me when we got bbc news 24. Now I go through downloads of Today, wato, pm, 6 o'clock news, and midnight news. And I still look at the news sites. And Facebook posts from the bbc, and the guardian. And some local (uk) news sites from areas I have previously lived in.