# What’s your favorite social media platform? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 13, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892 "2019-05-13T10:48:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/21 "2019-05-14T17:09:36Z")
I just got a Fax machine. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/22 "2019-05-14T17:18:40Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I just got a Fax machine. Don’t tell the hipsters, since they’ve already brought back vinyl records and cassette tapes, maybe a fax machine revival is next! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/23 "2019-05-14T17:21:01Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I just got a Fax machine. One of those devices capable of transmitting a facsimile of a document over the telephone lines? Cool!! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/24 "2019-05-15T03:18:29Z")
Reddit. I do follow a fair number of people/organizations on Twitter, but I very rarely ever post my own tweets; the same goes for Facebook. I don’t use the other two at all. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/25 "2019-05-15T03:22:01Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Don’t tell the hipsters, since they’ve already brought back vinyl records and cassette tapes, maybe a fax machine revival is next! One of my favorite “fun facts” is that the Fax Machine predates the Telephone by about 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/26 "2019-05-15T09:19:39Z")
FB by default also. Not so much favorite as least disliked. And where people I like to keep in touch with post updates. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/27 "2019-05-15T17:52:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > One of those devices capable of transmitting a facsimile of a document over the telephone lines? Cool!! ☹ Just found out the ‘Special Paper’ has been discontinued. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/28 "2019-05-15T18:23:08Z")
While I have Twitter and Instagram accounts the only one I actually use in Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/29 "2019-05-15T21:10:08Z")
I use all to some degree. As a dad, and granddad, it’s the only way to keep up w/ my kids/grandkids. Unfortunately the one I hate the most is the one I use the most… Facebook. God, I hate FB so much! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/30 "2019-05-15T21:17:14Z")
Yeah, I really just enjoy Twitter… it’s like the Dope, but in short bursts. And where can you, in an conversation about Jacob Wohl, have Kathy Griffith pop into your mentions to recommend, to me personally, a gay “Daddy” hookup site? > Try doing _that_ on Facebook! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/31 "2019-05-15T23:34:03Z")
Smoke signals. I don’t do nothing. Except here. For some reason I can’t shut-up. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/32 "2019-05-15T23:44:40Z")
What, no love for Friendster? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/33 "2019-05-16T01:52:42Z")
[This one](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/) ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/34 "2019-05-16T05:00:21Z")
I use Facebook, and I kind of hate myself for doing so. Not going to vote for it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/35 "2019-05-16T05:27:33Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > [This one](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/) Made me look. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892/36 "2019-05-16T08:58:28Z")
I joined Facebook and Twitter at the same time, but immediately disliked Facebook, and rapidly grew to enjoy Twitter. I don’t take any photos, so Instagram isn’t much use for me, and I don’t even know how Snapchat differs from the rest. I’ve been solely on Twitter since 2010, and it suits me very well. A lot of people complain about it, but though I am sympathetic to those perfectly reasonable criticisms, they rarely directly affect me, so I haven’t felt any motivation to abandon it yet. It’s a great source of celeb interaction, humour, and I get a lot of news directly from there, even if a lot of it is about America or the UK more than anything else. My whole family is on Facebook, but as I deleted my account only a few weeks after trying it out, I am out of the loop with a lot of what goes on with them. That’s my only regret. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-social-media-platform/833892.md?page=1)