The Verge’s favorite social networks

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Social networking has become more disconnected, to say the least. Two years ago, Elon Musk began transforming Twitter into what is now X, and the ensuing chaos drove a lot of former users elsewhere — elsewhere being several places, including Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and even Facebook or Instagram.We were curious as to where our staff members were going for their social networking fix these days — or whether they had given up on it altogether. Here ar