Social networks for personal needs. Socialization, communications. It's worth it?

Question

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I'm thinking about creating a personal account on social networks to build communications.
I think that as an introvert, it can be convenient to keep social connections, collect contacts, and not lose them, having only a super-narrow circle of close friends left.
Cons of being in networks:
First of all, there are many holes in personal security (from social to real).
Possible discomfort, complexes.
And so on.
But it captivates with possible advantages.Namely, the collection, collecting contacts. A phone call is more personal than a message on a social network, it seems to me that it is easier to raise a contact on the network than to make a call after a year or two. You can not communicate with a person, but keep in touch. Contacts in the phone book are something else (right?). Pragmatic approach, real benefit for career, social life.
What is your opinion about social networks as platforms for socialization and communication?
- What is your social media policy?
- Who do you add as friends (everyone, only relatives, everyone without relatives, only work, only girls)
- What content do you post (photo types), write a personal opinion
- How do you feel about your photos in friends albums, do you censor, ask to delete not liked?

Answer 1

You are overthinking this. There is only one rule - do not post too personal things to just anyone and that's it.

Answer 2

After several years in social networks, it turned out like this for me:
1. I refused all sorts of "Odnoklassniki" and "Facebook", only Vkontakte remained, since the interface is more convenient and not cluttered, there is more trust in terms of security, there is streaming audio / video with a lot of groups in various fields and genres.
Accordingly, it is used as a tightly controlled news feed from several (not tens and hundreds, like many, all sorts of funny things and cats) thematic groups. Audio player. Well, connecting with people.
2. I added only close friends as friends, the rest, from among acquaintances, simply "hang" in the dialogues.
3. I don’t post content (but in the first account it was very social, I just reconsidered my views), the wall is almost empty, I don’t write comments: if someone has an interesting post from among friends, there is a PM.
4. With those who take pictures, there is an unwritten rule about the permission to upload this stuff on the social network. At first it is shown to me, after the person can set the privacy settings for the album.
5. In terms of communication - of course, there is much more information in the verbal form, but on the network it is dry. But there is time to think about the answer, there is no need to follow intonation, etc.
As for the cons - you build your security yourself: profile, privacy settings, comments. By limiting the circle of communication, discomfort should not arise :)

Answer 3

Haha, you would have done a survey on Habré :D This is such a responsible step, to create a PERSONAL account on a social network in 2013.
From social networks I use mainly VK.
I add all the good and non-irritating acquaintances
"I'll post" any content, I also write my personal opinion.
If I don’t like the photo (and I almost never like it), then I simply remove the mark from the photo so that it doesn’t appear on my page and on my friends’ feed. I set up the feed so that there were a dozen interesting people and groups in it, no more.
Maybe if you really don't want to meet extra people, you should try the Path network?

Answer 4

Search for people on VKontakte from any country without blocking and restrictions here https://vksocial.ru/