The other day I realized that my Facebook time has decreased quite a bit. I now follow fewer individuals but belong to more Facebook groups. Individuals are mostly relatives, some old classmates, a few air traffic controllers (mostly retired), and an small assortment of others.
The Facebook groups that I belong to are:
1 fitness group
1 diet group
1 writer's group
1 photography group
3 retired FAA or retired ATC groups
6 motorcycle groups (4 are specific to Kawasaki Vulcans)
I follow a number of other pages along with these closed groups. Between those pages and these groups, most of my feed is dominated by these and a few relatives and friends that post often.
On Twitter, I follow more fitness, diet and sporting sites. I think it's a little funny when fitness or health sites follow me back because I rarely post anything fitness or health related. I guess it's for the possibility that I might retweet something of their's.
Most of my Twitter feed is centered around sports (baseball, MMA, hockey), fitness and health, and news feeds. I don't follow as many personal friends on Twitter, but do follow more celebrities (mostly athletes and a few actors), some religious leaders (mostly Christian, but some Muslim and Eastern philosophies), several writers/authors, and a few politicians.
All in all, it's a pretty diverse group.
The blogs I now read fall into a similar group, many of them come from the people I follow on Twitter and the pages I "like" on Facebook.
What kind of groups do you join or follow and from where do you get your news and info?
Just curious...
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I belong to a large number of FB groups, but am only active (as opposed to lurking) on three: a group of my old high school friends, alumni of my old college ROTC unit, and a closed group for similarly-minded political commentators. The others are all humorous sites. I get my news from The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, the BBC, and several other international news sites.
ReplyDeleteI've got about 40 friends. As far as groups I have a couple of AT&T retiree groups, Parents against gun violence, God, Meme GOP, Teabonics, Robert Reich, Sunset Hills police, Alternet, Mother Jones, Politifact, Southern Poverty Law Center, Huffpost, Storm is Coming, and more. I read more news on my browser... Google news, St. Louis Post Dispatch, PBS Newshour, BBC, Washington Post, Wired, and Salon.
ReplyDeleteOh and for us introverts on Facebook; Canceled PLans, Introverts are Awesome, and Introvert problems.
But the best one I've found recently is Francesca Fiorentini doing Newsbroke.
I get Newsbroke on my YouTube subscriptions.
ReplyDeleteI too have been enjoying Newsbroke's videos. I've actually entertained thoughts of deactivating or even deleting my Facebook account but I'm still active there, just not as much as I once was. I have a Twitter account but I've never fully embraced the platform. I mostly lurk there and like other people's tweets. John Fugelsang and Anna Navaro get most of my likes.
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