#22

For chat specifically? Please remember, this is the chat thread, not the general social media thread.

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#23

Does sending memes to your mates count as chat? If yes, yes

#24

It’s true though! My wife will be on it, having a scroll through her feed and I’ll be looking at it thinking “why have they put that on the internet?” at the majority of photos. And I can’t find a satisfying answer.

Full disclosure - I do have a bee in my bonnet about instagram at the moment because a few weeks ago I went out with a few mates. Turned into a bigger night than expected. Anyway, mate of mine puts a photo of us in a pub on instagram. Next day I get a load of messages from another mate saying “Saw you were out with x, y and z - why was I not invited?” and giving me loads of grief about it. This is a regular occurrence with instagram isn’t it? FOMO etc. (Seen a few studies now backing it up as well).

The photo my mate put up wasn’t even a) any good or b) of any use to anyone. Oh you’re out with some mates… isn’t that what people DO? Why document it? What’s the point?

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#25

not into using other apps than the phone one for calls, dont even let them access the mic. yer boi @incandenza called me on fb messenger the last time we hung out and i was like wo wtf is this and couldnt answer coz i hadnt given fb messenger access to the mic. still havent tbh

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#26

hate FB messenger and resent any use of it being forced on me

Whatsapp is pretty useful thouigh

I like Instagram - but not as a tool for chat

#27

Not just insta, but FB is so bad for this too. My sister has had a horrendous barrage of abuse texts yesterday from a ‘friend’ who saw that she was tagged on sunday at a Disney princess tea party (I fucking kid you not) at a local hotel. The sort of thing I’d pay good money to avoid. Said friend was saying 'I can’t believe you went to that party and didn’t think to ask me and < name of her princess daughter >, you are always leaving us out, I am so hurt, and other mainly hysterically incoherent and badly spelled accusations which also ignore the fact that the event was a sellout and my sister had been gifted a last minute cancellation ticket.

My sister is a woman of few words and nae messing, and has just texted back ‘fuck up’. :sob:

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#28

I remember you well, on old DiS :wink::wink:

#29

Oh I can spell perfectly my dear, I just can’t type.

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#30

Bless her. That’s the problem - a photo on insta or a tag on facebook contains absolutely no context. If you’re of a neurotic disposition (which most of us are, this isn’t a criticism) then you can fill in the blanks with anything.

Yeah I’ve barreled in on instagram because it seems more people (perhaps 35 and under?) use it than facebook for such purposes these days. One of my wife’s mates actually tags us on facebook for everything when we go out and it’s absolutely ridiculous. Pretty sure he’s even tagged me at something beyond inane like fucking Bermondsey tube station or something before and it’s like… jesus.

One of the amusing things is I remember growing up surrounded by absolute vehement resistance to the Blair government’s supposed assault on civil liberties. Especially around the proliferation of CCTV. Seems that we’ve actually gone further and outsourced the entire work to ourselves. Good work.

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#31

Actually this isn’t the “let’s slag off social media” thread is it and I appear to have derailed it by seemingly getting into moker territory so best leave it there.

#32

Hash tag look up

Aaaaahh

#33

Work has Skype for Business and it’s great. Don’t use it for phone calls, only for instant messaging, screen sharing and massive group chats with 50 people. I work with loads of overseas colleagues, so use emojis and exclamation marks to ensure they understand my tone.

#34

Your sis sounds dead on. Exact kind of response my brother would have in those situations as well.

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#35

We don’t have an IM system in here and it is fucking great. Hated using Slack or anything like that in previous jobs.

#36

Yeah, it’s awful for that. I do use it from time to time, but have reached a point where I’m asking myself “Who is this for? Why am I posting these photos? For myself? Do other people actually care?”.

Watershed moment was when I got more likes for a photo of a dildo stuck to a moped than I did for the post announcing my first born child. Got to take it all with a pinch of salt really.

I use Slack at work all the time. Have a remote team in Serbia so we rely on it.

For friends and family - Whatsapp, although why - WHY - does everything in life need a f**king Whatsapp group these days. Nothing like getting the ‘You have been added to the group Bank Holiday Fun!’ followed by 100s of messages then everyone leaving the group.

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#37

Same! I remember one of my superiors slagging off one of my workmates to me two chairs down from me. Awkward. Horrible.

#38

Mostly use FB Messenger to chat to most of my friends. Use WhatsApp for certain other people who use that more, mainly family members, work friends and a friend who’s not even on Facebook. Have a couple of group chats on each but Messenger are the more active ones.

Have occasional short back and forths with people on Instagram, usually in reply to a story or something, but can’t imagine ever using it as a primary method of chat. Used to exchange regular DMs on Twitter with a couple of people before we decided it would be far more convenient to add each other on FB or WhatsApp.

#41

:wave:

(assuming you mean the P5 one)

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#42

today my Skype for Business decided that it wouldn’t let me hear anyone on calls. checked and it had decided that my monitor was a speaker so was trying to pump the sound out through there. my monitor has no speakers.

it’s fine usually though, although it’s 100% monitored and i really should try to remember this more often

#43

whatsapp - family/mates
twitter - mates I haven’t seen for a long time/memes
FB Messenger - I met you once but don’t know you well enough to give my number
Pidgin - used at current work as we are mostly Linux nerds
Skype/Skype for Business - was useful at old job, was on it all day talking to peeps in remote locations, used for meetings & screen sharing.
Instagram - no, I’m too old, don’t see the point.

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