Does anyone else find social networking sites overwhelming?

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Overwhelming? No. But I find them mostly uninteresting.
If there hadn't been for updates from different turtle organizations on FB, I probably would have closed my account there. But it's too useful for turtle updates, as well as some other animal and environmental stuff.
On the other hand, I almost can't imagine life without Wikipedia, YouTube or forums.

Honestly, although I have Facebook for it's practical advantages (I know people who don't text but often message on Facebook) and to get my mum off my back about talking to people and arranging to see them, I actually find it an incredibly irritating website. Before, I have accepted friend requests from people I like or felt obliged to 'friend' as they were relatives or something similar, only to find that every time I log on my page is crowded with Farmville requests and people posting things like 'If you like this; I'll post on your page/tell you what I like about you/rate you out of ten e.t.c. I mean seriously, who cares? Also, if i know anything about NTs (a group to whichI am uncertain about whether or not I belong) it's that they often don't tell the truth, so, assuming they are aware of this dishonesty, what is the purpose of these posts? Aren't they entirely meaningless? Is it just a joke? Or is everyone just incredibly bored?

I don't and I have Instagram and music.ly

I'm still on FB and still haven't gotten used to it at all. It is so time consuming to do anything on there, there might be just a few pages I want to check like astrology updates or Jeff Foxworthy's page, but then I get sidetracked a hundred times looking at stuff that just pops up in my feed, oh what's this, this looks interesting, and next thing I have 20 pages open with articles I don't care about reading or videos I don't have time to watch.

Then there are all the personal posts people make and I take most of those off my feed. If you want to do people watching on FB it is pretty entertaining but I just can't get over some of the stuff people post.

I feel like FB just clutters my mind up with information that is not relevant to me.

I don't mind using Facebook. What I find overwhelming about it is the whole " let me share my hate of this group/ politics/all the bad news in the world". I have enough anxiety on my own without people spamming those things. Plus I get tired of all the game requests too. However, what is nice about it are the several yard sale groups.

I despise Twitter as it's nothing but a drama cesspool 98% of the time. My thoughts about it are thus

The ones I use the most/ prefer is Instagram and Tumblr. Instagram cause I find it nice to look through all the pictures of food, tattoos, animals, and what my few friends are doing. And Tumblr because I roleplay on there with my girlfriend and a few other online friends, plus gifs from my favorite shows.

I use Facebook a lot, because I'm quite isolated otherwise: most of my friends live elsewhere and aren't easy to catch by phone. I don't use even a quarter of the functionality of it: just post stuff on my own "wall" and comment on things in what I guess is the news feed, plus a couple of groups. Sometimes people respond to me, but it's a bit random what kind of things get a response.

It took me a LONG time to adjust to the constant torrent of items, only about a quarter of which interest me. I don't "unfollow" people, but I do always just skim-read, and try not to get upset if I lose sight of something I actually wanted to read. Skim-reading past the junk is necessary to retain sanity.

Quite often I just have to ignore it for days or weeks because it's doing my head in. When I'm anxious, I get manic and obsessively click on lots of links, then get more stressed and anxious, then burn out. Facebook makes this worse. I'm slowly getting better at heading off this loop. Maybe your friend is trying a similar Facebook-detox, just in a really untactful way?

The political stuff: mixed feelings. On the one hand, it's good to see that at least some friends care about the things I care about. Particularly as at work I'm surrounded by people who get their nasty, vicious little opinions from the red-top newspapers. I could do with the ability to turn politics OFF on my bad days though, and just look at a newsfeed that's wall-to-wall kittens.

I don't get Twitter, and have given up on it. I was introduced to it while doing a web-design internship. I don't understand how conversations work on there. Most posts either seem even more pointless than those on Facebook, or else are part of some arcane conversation I can't see the rest of. And it looks like to get the most out of it, you need to have a smartphone stuck to your face 24/7....