What social media accounts are worth it for developers in 2020?

What social media accounts do you think is crucial for devs to have and manage in 2020 to have a great promotion base, find some valuable contacts and possibly get some job opportunities?

Or do you believe social media is a complete waste of time, massive distraction by all means and most important thing for success is a great portfolio with lots of practical projects?

Comments

[JWP]

For developers LinkedIn is the one an only. Why? We get to learn where and how we want to steer our career.

👎 For Medium, it's a haven for non technical malcontents whose posts always pop up uninvited.

[Andrew ⚛️ & ☕]

I've heard dev.to is good one😅

[Spyros Argalias]

• LinkedIn - For professionals.

Everything else is optional. Just use whatever you like and find useful.

• Facebook - Some businesses get better results on Facebook using Facebook pages and whatnot. However, that doesn't mean that you need a good personal profile.
• YouTube - For courses and content. Again, it doesn't mean you need a good personal account unless uploading videos is part of your personal branding / strategy.
• Etc.

[CultureCodeLab]

youtube, github, medium, twitter, linkedin, basically social media that have great content for developers.

[Ludovic Frank]

Twitter should be the "ONE" for me

[Daven]

I like social media that dont have notifications to distract me. Kinda like Twtxt. I like hanging out there too coz i contribute at the code that runs it at github.com/jointwt/twtxt. I've learned a lot things about Go while contributing so far!

[Sai Sandeep Vaddi]

I spend very little time in Social Media.

To get developer content, I use

1. DEV
2. Medium
3. Reddit dev subreddits.
4. Subscribe to blog newsletters
5. YouTube
6. Hackernews
7. feedly.com is good to keep all the dev related websites in one place.

FB is no help for dev stuff.

Twitter will take your whole day refreshing. So I check it once every few days.
Mostly the good community in Reddit, DEV and Medium embeds tweets if any helpful.

[Madza]

Feedly is awesome, I remember using it way back 😉
Then they changed their pricing and limited the free tier... 🙁 Tho, it's still an awesome tool if you are ready to pay for it 😉

[JoelBonetR 🥇]

LinkedIn of course. It's the only one which is for professionals. If you are a photographer, cameraman or similar (arts speaking general) you'll go for Instagram, Behance and so, but for the rest of the world, LinkedIn is a must have

[Kaan Bereketli]

It's obvious that everyone has their own outlook towards this subject, but make sure that you know yourself. If you can't control your excessive usage of social media, you may need to work on your fundamental behaviors against obsessive habits. No need to restrict yourself with solid rules against it. As some people mentioned, you can use it for educational purposes, following the community (I highly recommend it.) or to let it all hang out for fun once in a while. Just chill out.