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 know where they live and have their phone number

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

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.

My phone number.

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.

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

Stay in contact with family? No thanks

Via my spouse.

Signal

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

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

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

Signal groups, works great

I just text and email, also actual mail.

Telegram group chats. It's perfect.

They can suck my balls on WhatsApp

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 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.

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

My mother and my kiddo live with me. I don't really have any other family.