Text messages and phone calls. I don’t need to see my boomer relatives racist posts.

I don't. They have my phone number. They can text or call.

Send me a text or call me. The family and friends I want to talk to will make an effort. The rest I don't really need to know about.

I don't use social media to stay in contact with family; I use various messaging/call technologies.

I know where they live and have their phone number

SMS and telephone and IRL.

I haven't used Facebook for over ten years. I was using Instagram for a while but the algorithm makes using it utterly pointless.

Do you really need to be on top of everyone all the time? Give your relationships room to breathe. Allow yourself to have engaging conversations with people to catch up and get to know them and the things that matter most to them. Allow yourself the liberty of not knowing the most ridiculous crap that they choose to share with the world.

Edit: Oh! I have a friend who I turned on to GroupMe a long time ago. He and his family still use it regularly. So, if you're looking for something, give that a look.

A private Signal group for nobody besides us.

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!

My phone number.

Texting?? I also use this technological innovation called living with your parents.

I don’t use any social media. I give my phone number to family members. They can call/text if they want to reach me.

Stay in contact with family? No thanks

Signal

Via my spouse.

You feel like you can't disconnect from these things, but you can. Group text plus family learn quickly that you're outside of social media. They learn to deliberately send photos or call and if your spouse is more social, they become the conduit for "news" and it's filtered down to you when important

Simple. My sister keeps in touch with the family via Facebook and I keep in touch with her by phone. 😁

I dont

I use this alien technology called a phone.

What? You don't use phone as a phone anymore?

I call them

None, I like it that way. I also don"t pick up the phone when they call.

I have a few friends though, we Signal.

Signal for whole family chat; phone and SMS variously; discord for some

Signal

Signal groups, works great

Not social media, just Signal. I was able to convince them to use Signal even just for our own family group chats.

I just text and email, also actual mail.

They can suck my balls on WhatsApp

Telegram group chats. It's perfect.

Giant group texts. One has over 30 people, mostly used for baby/marriage announcements. Then a bunch of other group texts for different social groups (stoners, siblings, camping, etc).

Why would I stay in touch with family? Those people suck.

a phone number

If my family isn't on Steam Chat, then we don't speak.

Bold of you to assume that I have family that I want to keep in touch with. Entire family tree is twisted and gnarled, and full of white-trash sociopaths and narcissists.

For the one remaining person I might keep in touch with, it’s a text message at holidays.

i pick up my phone and call em....

I don't use social media to stay connected with family. I lift up the phone, go visit, or if we need to communicate online, I have an XMPP server for the family with end to end encryption. Can share pictures, text, and can even do video calls if need be, send files, and so on.

Don't see the need to involve any kind of social media.

They can text me.

Groups in Signal and Threema. For my grandmother, WhatsApp (she doesn't want to use more than one app and her friends are on that one) or calling (because her grasp of that app isn't quite complete.)