We asked the people of Sheffield do you use social media? Which one and why?
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00:00 Yeah, I use Instagram a lot. It's just where my band is and everything and I get a lot of my friends send me things on there.
00:07 So, is it about publicity for your band?
00:10 Yes, yeah, mainly. That's the main reason that we use it and things.
00:13 Do you use any other platform?
00:15 I use Snapchat. Sometimes a lot of people communicate via Snapchat.
00:19 It's just not really for me. I don't really like what comes of it quite often.
00:25 I have obviously stuff like WhatsApp just for communicating with friends. That's basically it.
00:31 Did you use social media before?
00:33 Yeah, when I was about 14, 15 I reckon.
00:36 Which one?
00:37 Instagram, Snapchat, that kind of thing.
00:40 Why don't you use it now?
00:43 Mainly during lockdown to be honest.
00:46 What happened?
00:47 It was more just about communicating with people over Zoom and that kind of thing.
00:54 I just felt like the way that people were talking and the images that people were putting out, I just wasn't really enjoying using social media during lockdown.
01:04 And then I just didn't use it from then.
01:07 Did you find it easy to stop?
01:09 Yeah, during lockdown definitely.
01:11 I feel like if I got it again now I probably would just get back into it straight away.
01:17 Social media is... I don't know, I don't want everyone knowing about my life.
01:23 Do you use any social media?
01:25 Not anymore.
01:26 Which one did you use?
01:27 I used to use all of them.
01:30 What happened?
01:31 Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, all of that.
01:35 So you dropped them?
01:36 Yeah.
01:37 Why?
01:38 Because people on there, they've got my number if I want to speak to them.
01:42 So that's the way I speak to people now.
01:44 Why?
01:45 It's easier.
01:46 It's easier?
01:47 Yeah. Plus it's not fake, you know what I mean?