dMw and social media

[Sneakytiger]

what do you guys use the most fb,twitter,google+

For me it's twitter.

[TheDvEight]

The exchange? wrong section

Facebook.

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[TeaLeaf]

Moved to more appropriate section.

For me personally I very rarely use social media.    The one I use more than anything is G+ simply as I find it less intrusive and easier to control sharing access.    I tend to avoid things like Twitter unless it is during a specific event: e.g. I might track some F1 Team Twitter feeds during a grand prix, but otherwise I'd not even load the app.    I also tend to have all notifications disabled by default - if the news is that important then Bernie will just have to phone me!

From the dMw side, social media is a bigger challenge.    People do use social media, it does have traffic, but putting content on social media also pulls content and participation away from the forum which has tended to be our lifeblood.    The ideal solution is where we could embed relevant social media within the forum and control both pull and push of content from/to our dMw social media accounts.   A social media presence would help dMw, but only if it is an integrated part of our community.   It's like our IRC channel, it works efficiently, but is not integrated within our website so its advertising value is lessened.   Is there forum software that does this for us?   Yes but at a cost and we have not found any yet that will handle what we do sufficiently well, within a reasonable budget and without excessive ongoing costs!    If someone in the community knows of some software that will work with vBulletin 4.x (or alternative packages) then please let us know!   Likewise if anyone has vB skinning skills then please get in touch!

[Padding]

Hate facebook but its good to spy on other people :devil:

[Dingo]

I tend to use the telephone or face to face contact.....I know, I'm a Dinosaur!!........who the feck bothers to actually talk to people these days??

[Switchback]

I tend to use the telephone or face to face contact.....I know, I'm a Dinosaur!!........who the feck bothers to actually talk to people these days??

Very true! No one does!

I used to love f/b years ago it was great when it 1st started but now I barely use it....

I play 1 game on there and out off the 900 odd friends I have I use it to contact about 10 people around the world lol.


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[BrotherTobious]

I tend to use the telephone or face to face contact.....I know, I'm a Dinosaur!!........who the feck bothers to actually talk to people these days??

And thats why LANs are so important not only good fun but a friendly way to relearn old skills

[Dingo]

And thats why LANs are so important not only good fun but a friendly way to relearn old skills

.....and thus the reason you are wearing a modern Hijab in your avatar?!!

[BrotherTobious]

.....and thus the reason you are wearing a modern Hijab in your avatar?!!

Yeah this Space Helmet really looks like a Hijab ............honest gov