View Poll Results: Which digital fixations do you have ? (multi-choice)
Online forums (yes)
17
94.44%
Social media (FB etc)
12
66.67%
Instagram
4
22.22%
News feeds
8
44.44%
Online shopping/browsing
7
38.89%
Messaging/texting
7
38.89%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 18. You may not vote on this poll
Digital fixations?
Jul 4th 2017 | 4:16 am
#16
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 968
From: Calgary
Re: Digital fixations?
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 tostalk old friends keep in touch with far-flung family, but don't do a lot of other online stuff.
Aside from this and one or two other forums, I use Facebook primarily to
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.
Jul 4th 2017 | 6:03 am
#17
Thread Starter
Realist
Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 24,667
From: UK
Re: Digital fixations?
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.
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.
Jul 5th 2017 | 8:04 am
#18
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 1,339
Re: Digital fixations?
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.
