Nikki Sixx Is Right About Social Media

Social media is a huge time waster. The rise of social media has helped a lot of things like marketing and recruiting and newsgathering. On the flip side, if it wasn't for social media, cyber bullying probably wouldn't exist. Then there's the rise of fake news... and the fact that adults all seem to have ADHD now because no one can focus on any one thing for more than two minutes at a time thanks to constant stream updates.

So all that said, I completely agree with why Nikki Sixx deleted his social media accounts. Basically he said he was spending too much time on his phone and not enough time on creative endeavors. It's interesting, because social media is amazing for music marketing and SIXX certainly had a massive footprint (over 700K Twitter followers alone), so I believe this was a calculated risk. He knows his core fans will be there for him regardless of a Twitter account or not. New musicians don't have this luxury. Balance in all things I suppose. 

NIKKI SIXX Explains Decision To Quit Twitter, Facebook https://t.co/pCgx8W08bc pic.twitter.com/X8TqfSkUIb

— BLABBERMOUTH.NET (@BLABBERMOUTHNET) December 21, 2016

Comments

[Ace Steele]

Don't be fooled. Sixx deleted his Twitter account because it provided a convenient source of his past blitherings, which would prove exactly how full of sh*t he is, on any given subject, after he has switched his point of view from what it was. Usually he does this after boring a whole lot of his previous members.

[Gary]

I wonder if I am the last person on Earth to never have or use Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat (and whatever the hell else is out there)??? Did twitter for about a year, but it became nothing more than people trying to sell you shit or get you to "check out their banging new beats". Guess I'm way too old. Now, that being said, you kids get the hell off my lawn while I go drive down the interstate at 47 mph in the passing lane with my turn signal on the entire time.😂😂

[Bkallday]

You aren't the only one, Gary. I've never had any of the ones that you just mentioned. Social Media is for girls to look at pics of guys they like, and other sorted losers that have absolutely no life and no social abilities in person!

[Kevon]

Gary, dont worry, no facebook, twitter or snapchat for me either!

[EddieLongHair]

I had the same epiphany following this past election season. Just had enough of it all and closed my FB account. Actually feels kinda good!

[Shawn]

@Gary NO social media here - we did it when my son was stationed in Germany to help stay connected but when people we thought were friends turned it into an overblown high school drama club it was just useless so we dropped it when my son returned home. - 47 mph in the passing lane with my turn signal on - awesome !

[Allyson]

I'm stuck with social media unfortunately. I would delete Facebook if I could, but it's part of my job, so I have to have a personal account. I literally do not understand the obsession with selfies.

- Allyson

[oper8n]

As we all type messages to reach each other on this awesome nonsocial media website.
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I would end with a Bretmoji, but there's a bug and it wouldn't let me type in here.
🎶

[Bryon]

What I hate most about social media is how it has replaced actual journalism as a way for people to keep up with the world. Everyone seems to live in their own private echo chambers, getting exposed only to things that reinforce their world views - anything outside of that is easily blocked. IMO, it has contributed greatly to the divisiveness that we are seeing. There is no such thing as middle-ground anymore.

[Bob]

Joined Facebook in 2008 when a lot of other old people did. Was blown away to reconnect with so many old friends from high school and college. After catching up with them, suddenly realized that I didn't care what they did on a daily basis, and didn't see why anybody should care about the things I do on a daily basis. Never closed my account, but hardly ever go into it anymore. My wife, however, is absolutely obsessed with Facebook. We'll be in the livingroom, enjoying some time together and, while we are interacting, she's glued to that phone of hers, clicking through Facebook posts. I don't get it, but to each his/her own I suppose. "social" media is the reason why younger people have no idea how to communicate with actual live people face to face anymore. I work on a college campus, so witness this every day. But yes, Sixx's move is 1,000% calculated.

[Metalboy!]

For whatever reason SIXX quit Social Media, he did the right thing!

I am also someone who is not on Facebook, Twitter or anything like that. It's mainly because I realized way back when how much time it would consume, just as Sixx claims. Besides, I like to keep off the radar as much as possible.

p.s. You're killin' me, as usual, Gary! "...with my turn signal on the entire time." Hahaha!!!

[Gary]

Glad to see I'm not the only one folks! Lol. And oper8n,VERY astute observation my friend (proving yet again why you're "the brains of this here operation" 😂😂)

I would never vilify anyone for using social media. To each his own. I'm sure it's a good way to stay in touch with far off family and old friends.But a lot of folks rely on it in place of social interaction, like bk astutely points out. It just never interested me. I always figured that the world could care less what I'm having for dinner or give a rats ass when I'm off to the bathroom. As for the old acquaintances, if we haven't talked in like 25 yeas, there's probably a pretty good reason why. Lmao

[Gary]

P.S. Bryon, if oper8n ever decides to abdicate the throne as our resident (see what I did there?) intellect/voice-o-reason,that post you made for this discussion goes a helluva long way to you taking over IMHO. Lol.

[Him]

This set of posts is: (A) a good argument for why social media is not necessary; (B) a somewhat grounded rationale for the limited use of social media; or (C) a cluster of older-ish people worrying about when the next large print edition of _Reader's Digest_ is going to arrive. Fully disclosure: I fit into the (A) category, even if I can see a bit of (B) and will likely end up (C).

Back to the topic proper. Doing something that turns out to be a good thing is one thing. Doing it to do it so that you seem like you are doing it so it looks like you are doing a good thing is another. I dunno. I just find Sixx calculating. Which is on me, I guess. But he just invites the "what's his angle?" sort of question anytime he does anything anymore. That is on him, I guess. But, given that I am in the (A) category, none of what he was doing wasting his time wasted any of my time. So Sixx is all good on that point with me, regardless of which way he tilts.

But that Liza M. look is starting to grate on me. "Mommy! Mommy!" I hear him shouting at a picture of Judy Garland. Very few people carry the old school swagger "look" into their golden years. Tone it down a scootch, Sixx.