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I have a LinkedIn account, but haven't worked in nearly 14 years and thus it is of little consequence for me. A few friends and former colleuages are 'linked in' to me. It is a non event and non threatening, imo, and I seldom glance at it.
I have a Twitter account, which I have used a couple times to tweet at someone simply trying it out, and have glanced at maybe a half dozen times. But I really could not care less about Twitter...
I resisted FB for a long time, even though as a Retired Bum, it really isn't a 'time issue', as I am not carrying the bag/travelling/working anymore.
I relented to FB, mostly at the urging of our kids, as it does provide a medium to share pics, note articles/comments that might be interesting, etc. My 'Friends List', is meager by most FB standards: some X5 board friends, some Geezer Golf friends, some old friends discovered on FB, some of our adult kids' friends, a couple of cousins, et al.
As JCL noted, one can limit who sees any given post...as for FB's mining the users as 'the product', I don't disagree, but that is really the basis for most of the commercial sites on the Net, imo.
We give up some privacy, security and some of our 'rights' every time we log on to FB or a weather channel or a car board, or...
Do I like that? It sort of doesn't bother me, or affect my life to any great degree: I pay scant attention to the sidebar ads on any site, and I clear cookies and crap regularly using CC Cleaner. I avoid skin sites, I use Norton 2014, Malware Bytes, et al on a regular basis. Pretty clean machine, as Queen sang...
Not debating if one should or shouldn't use FB, Twitter, Instagram, et al, but it is simply 'social media' and a way to stay connected to those we care about, and a source of some pretty good/interesting info, not unlike XOutpost, et al...
GL, mD
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