What Social Media Do I Use, How Do I Use It, and Why?
This blog post is my attempt to explain what social media channels I use, how I use them, and why I use them. One major objective of my use is to find things to think and write about.
Originally published to: https://deliverystack.net/2025/11/22/what-social-media-do-i-use-how-do-i-use-it-and-why/
Why Do I Read Social Media?
- To gather information and perspectives from a broad collection of relatively educated, experienced, and intelligent individuals.
- To monitor social trends and opinions.
Why Do I Post to Social Media?
- To share any knowledge and perspectives that I can with hope that my content may benefit others.
- To participate in humorous exchanges.
- To try to get people to read content that I write on my blog.
- To garner perspectives on anything that I write.
- To interact with and learn from people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Because I feel a compulsive need to address what I perceive as misinformation or even propaganda.
What Social Media Channels Do I Use, and How?
My blog, LinkedIn, Slashdot, and YouTube are my only social media channels. I write most to my blog, secondarily to LinkedIn (often simply to promote my blog), and occasionally to Slashdot. I rarely post videos to YouTube, often to support content that I write elsewhere. I almost never interact with content on YouTube.
How Are My Social Media Experiences?
Of these, I generally have the best experiences on LinkedIn because I prefer text, which I can read at my own pace. Slashdot, which seems to have become less of a cesspool in the last few years, focuses more on science and technology. Very few people comment on my blog or my blog or YouTube channel; LinkedIn is much more interactive for me.
Excluding my blog, all of these advertise to some extent, often disguised as posts, whether from within the hosting company or from outside parties. I particularly dislike when any links to a paywalled site without providing a sufficient summary.
While I try to limit my investments, I like to debate, which seems common on almost any social media platform. In general, I find that people stop responding when they feel they have lost an argument. This is especially common for people that apparently lack rational logic and critical thinking skills, resorting to mental shortcuts such as labels, insults, and even threats.
What Additional Strategies Do I Employ?
Possibly due to my dwindling attention span and other priorities, I often do not make time to read entire threads. I sometimes ask an LLM to summarize those that have a large number of comments, and then I post that summary to the thread in case others might be intersted, mentioning the number of comments that existed when I generated the summary.
I sometimes do something similar with videos, whether I've watched (or more often, listened to them) them or not. Specifically, I use a website to transcribe the video and an LLM to summarize the transcript.