I don’t. I’m estranged from most of my family because I refuse to use Facebook.
They can hire a private eye and try to find me that way.
My mother and my kiddo live with me. I don’t really have any other family.
Texting?? I also use this technological innovation called living with your parents.
That’s the funny part - I don’t!
Not social media, just Signal. I was able to convince them to use Signal even just for our own family group chats.
They can suck my balls on WhatsApp
Email and the occasional Skype video call. One of my family has a digital album thing we upload to.
Lol, if I had family in my social media I would have to stop using social media.
Mainly WhatsApp. Would love to use Signal but a lot of our family members won’t be switching to anything else.
We had a whatsapp group for a solid decade and then finally migrated it to signal last year.
I don’t get the point of using facebook to stay in touch with groups of people. For individuals maybe, but if you want to talk to more than one person, it’s pretty useless.
They’ve been informed that if they’d like me to know something, they’ll have to tell me. As it turns out, the phone works as a phone too!
Seriously, has everyone forgotten what a “phone” is? I mean I have trouble hearing and don’t like to hold long conversations on the phone, but it’s still one of the quickest ways to get in touch with someone.
Do you have experience with Auditory Processing Disorder? I say that because I started noticing symptoms in my early 30s when I developed tinnitus.
Hadn’t heard of that one and had to look it up… but no, my problem is that I had a loud car stereo when I was younger and blew out my hearing in the upper ranges. I can hear better in my right ear, but usually put the phone up to my left. When it’s quiet I can understand people just fine, but when there’s background noise it makes them a lot harder to understand. If I’m watching videos at my computer I can turn down the bass and turn up the treble, then I understand the dialog just fine, but everyone else in the house complains that it’s now too loud.
I’ve had over 30 years to adjust and I make do, but don’t try to talk to me at a concert. :-)
I don’t!
My wife does it for me, lol.
I have a group text with my immediate family so we can coordinate semi-regular get-togethers, and I do the same with my own kids, but that’s it.
(There’s no way I’d be able to get my parents to learn how use anything more complicated anyhow, and just getting everyone in my own household to use a shared calendar was a whole thing. Simpler is better.)
My wife, however, likes staying informed, if not always in touch, and so dutifully does all the obligatory proud parent posting on facebook. She lets me know if anything important comes up from one of the relatives on there.
Distant family stays distant, which is how I like it, because most of them are pretty right wing anyway and the less I have to engage with their gibberish the better. Otherwise I only visit facebook occasionally to browse a shitposting page for a podcast I listen to. It’s better this way.
Are you me?
Your comment made me think of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQDdmobnGcw I don’t know if it really fits your case, but the general message of men oftentimes not learning to keep up social relationships and that it sometimes huts them in the long run might be something to be aware of :)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=rQDdmobnGcw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
LINE? Signal? Text?
Lemmy is my only online presence. I use…
My phone.
