Hi, this is Chris Hubs.

I don’t know why you’re listening to this, but since you are, let’s talk about social media.

I’m a big early adopter of almost everything tech.

I work in computers, and I hobby in technology, and so that’s kind of what I do.

Back before even big social media like we think about it was a thing, I was involved with other forms of social media online.

One of my earliest social media real engagements was on a bulletin board, back when bulletin boards were the day, and I found one that was a fan site related to a favorite band of mine.

And oh boy, did we spend time there.

That was a good time.

I made friends on that board who I then proceeded to meet in real life, and still a number among some of my best friends around the country and in other countries today.

Really, if I think about events that really put my life in different directions and influenced me different ways, the engagement on that board was one of them.

I was early on the other social networks.

When Twitter was just barely a thing, I had an account on Twitter.

I remember trying to convince one of my indie musician friends that Twitter was a thing he needed to be on, easily a couple years before Twitter became a thing that every musician felt like they needed to be on in order to cross-market.

So, yeah, I was there early and engaged all the time.

Was on Facebook about as soon as you could get onto Facebook without a college email address, and it’s just continued on from there.

If there’s been a social network that has been tried, I have probably been on it, and I have followed those feels like all the way to their demise.

I kept my Twitter account around longer than I probably should have when Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into sort of the hellscape that it is now.

I first deactivated my account for a while to hold on to the username, thinking in principle that it was good to at least keep the name claimed.

And finally, eventually, I just went, Nope, I’m out.

Deleted the whole thing, shut it down.

Not going back there.

I currently have sort of active Blue Sky and Mastodon accounts, and I keep an eye on those most days.

I’m semi-engaged there, not like I was on Twitter back in Twitter’s heyday, but such is life.

I still have my Facebook account around.

Not that I feel like I get a huge amount of value out of it, but there are a few friends that I manage to only sort of keep track of because we’re connected on Facebook, and I’d rather be able to stay connected with them than not be connected with them, and that’s my justification there.

Instagram kind of comes along for that ride.

I never really got started on Threads.

I felt like I didn’t need one more Facebook-run social media network in my life, and so I have left it be.

Maybe the most interesting sort of small social network I have at the moment is on micro.blog, where my blog and this little podcast get posted.

It gives native following capability to be able to network there, and I’ve found some interesting people, and the pace of the conversation and the post updates is slow enough that it actually feels manageable.

Still, most days I have my social media feed with Twitter and Bluesky and a combined feed on a macOS app called Indigo, which is out recently and I’ve enjoyed.

And mostly I watch it scroll by, and it gives me a little bit of a pulse on news and current events, both tech news and political news, and just the general cultural zeitgeist, if there is such a thing anymore, amongst the people that I follow, occasional meme and good joke, and even a sports post once in a while.

So that’s my social media fun.

I don’t know how long I’ll stay with these tools and these networks and what will replace them, but having the ability to kind of stay in touch and keep pulse with people online is something that I really enjoy.

So we’ll talk later.