I think the best social media experience is just to participate a little here, and little there, use email, have your own website, have a separate place for pho

I think the best social media experience is just to participate a little here, and little there, use email, have your own website, have a separate place for photos, a separate place for discussions, use relatively back-water like this, etc. The reason is that without a massive, centralized network, no company can benefit from it in a mass-production advertising/factory sort of way like Facebook. That's exactly why I refuse to use Facebook and I've never had an account. Spread it around, and don't put all your eggs in one basket. In fact, I don't think we even need huge social media companies and we'd do just fine without them.