"You don't have an insta? Not even a Facebook account? What are you hiding, lol?"
Bruh I'm not hiding anything I just don't like baring my asshole to the world.
Social media (yes yes I know Hexbear kind of counts) tends to make people busy, distracted, drained, and miserable yet the expectation is to maintain a presence there because everyone else is.
It's like the lawn of the internet. :grillman:
It's surprising the amount of people still use it, usually older people, but I've had coworkers annoyed that I didn't know about a get together they arranged on Facebook
Also if you look at somebody’s page they can see you looked at, which just makes it kind of nerve wracking. I hate linked in with a passion. I recently kind of had to make one as I attempt to transfer to a new career path. It sucks
I was told in a class a couple years ago that not having a Facebook and LinkedIn account can get you passed up by hiring managers, which is the only reason I have both. The words of the teacher were something like "if HR looks you up and sees nothing, that's good - but if they look you up and see nothing, they'll assume you're hiding something".
LinkedIn is the creepiest coercive sycophantic bootlicking nightmare world yet devised in social media. I get actual anxiety attacks whenever some "let's lick the boots faster!" uplifting quote gets bandied about there where I can see it.
I for one am not looking forward to an eternal september situation here
:geordi-no: Eternal September
:geordi-yes: Eternal October Revolution
… I just don’t like baring my asshole to the world
Literally what twitter is for, I’m convinced
just as politics is the showbiz of ugly people, twitter is the onlyfans of folks with hairy buttholes
Dirt Owl should just make an onlyfans with just pictures of there bared asshole and give only that out when asked for their social media deets.
Gonna start acting shocked when people I know IRL don’t have a hexbear as if it is as popular as twitter
I don’t have hardly any posts on instagram, same as your situation. I do have more photos of myself and stuff on Facebook so when a girl gives me her instagram I usually say “here’s mine but I hardly use it, guess I’m behind the times and here’s my Facebook if you’ve got that” haha
Yeah I also have a Twitter account with no activity. My commie rants are on Facebook, another reason I don’t mind giving it out in those situations, Better they can stalk me on FB and decide if my politics turn them off or whatever, for most it doesn’t matter much.
I more or less say fuck the troops, fuck America, fuck the police all the time and I get responses from sympathetic to confused to confused to enraged and I reply to those accordingly. I’m a former “troop” of some sort myself (joined when my brain was not fully formed and full of propaganda) and in some cases that gives me a pass to say whatever I want. Then when a chud replies all offended I can pull rank on him or call him a snowflake crybaby that’s offended by my political incorrectness and they have no clue what to do.
Eh, I have just accepted and will admit to being a weird ascetic.
But, if they call me a Luddite I will always respond with a) yes, but not the way you meant it. b) Here is my linux install and the code from my Rust tutorials
i grew up when Power Word: Realname was a thing, so the idea of willingly putting my legal name on the internet is bizarre to me
Lol i got the same thing but for something slightly different. I self host lots of neat websites ome of them being a recipe site called tandoor which is very useful. When i was showing it to a colleague how cool it was i immediately was quizzed "why self host what are you hiding?" ITS A RECIPE SITE WHAT U THINK IM HIDING THE CRABBY PATTY SECRET FORMULA?
The absolute gall of self hosting finance tracking, recipes and a todo list. I must be a criminal
When I left Facebook, people told me to get an Instagram. I was like "Why, so you can ignore me there, too?"
Even showing my art to people I know in real life can make me feel weird about it. Like I'm seeing the art through someone else's eyes when it's really just for me. Like I'm performing. I can't imagine how uncomfortable I'd feel blasting it out to everyone online.
out of my immediate social network (school friends, work friends, family, common interest pals), i am absolutely the one with the most technical literacy and aptitude (not bragging, i just used to work in that shitty sector). i do haxbare, some small discord friend groups, and a direct messaging app. no facebook, no tiktok, no insta, no twitter. i let people assume i have them until someone specifically asks, and i just say sorry, i'm not on the one they're asking about. semi-recently, in a mixed group, some woman was like, "wait, you're not on facebook, linkedin, or twitter, or any of them?" and i said, "i know, right. one might say i barely exist at all." which got some cheap laughs. i don't want to proselytize. seems like everybody knows these apps suck anyway.
few people ask why not, though i can tell it bothers them and makes me seem "eccentric". if anyone presses i just say, "repeated peer-reviewed studies show using those programs makes people depressed and anxious, and i don't want that." that usually kills any further interrogation.
It's weird how basic people want to radiate quirkiness in social media approved ways but actual eccentricity is bad. :wojak-nooo:
Lmao @ the comments making it about gender :what-the-hell:
I just use insta to look at art and (yes I'm cringe) fandom content, some political stuff. I post when I go to cons and use Instagram just to send weird jokes or let my friends know what I'm up to.
i threw together a Facebook page that i never check or update because i was told in a job search class that not having one can get you denied for shit. We live in the dumbest of all possible worlds.
