I don't feel the need to post my life online... Continues to post personal story online
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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I know this is likely fake, but I have gotten that reaction from people. Folks really find it strange when you don't have social media. The times it really sucks is when they think you're lying and just don't want to add them.
It's about safety for me. Going on a date with someone is such a gamble. If they have zero social media presence, that's outside of what's normal. Anything outside of normal social expectations is a safety red flag to me, because you immediately become less predictable to me. I don't want to be alone with someone I don't really know who is unpredictable. I'm just trying not to get murdered.
Yep and somehow, they want you to "prove" you don't have one.
While like others have said this is probably fake.
That said, there is a middle ground. Any one refusing to use ANY social media probably has issues...
Those acting like this is normal, would give someone who refuses to have a cell phone weird looks or what about any phone at all?
For people refusing to use LinkedIn (or similar), that's the same as refusing to have a resume pre Internet
Don't expect society to bend to you, you're NOT special.
Any one refusing to use ANY social media probably has issues…
And this is where we went wrong. Why should it be the expected default, to share your private data with some corportation doing god knows what with it, among other things selling it to third companies that you do not know, which then target you with political advertising aimed at undermining democracy in your country?
Those acting like this is normal, would give someone who refuses to have a cell phone weird looks or what about any phone at all?
This is entirely different. The issue with social media is not, that it provides a means to reach you. The issue is that you sell all your private data, that includes and allows for information on highly sensitive topics such as your sexual orientation and physical and mental health. Having a phone number provides none of this. The worst issues with phones is scam calls targeting elders on landlines. And how do they do that? because some other company aggregated the data and sold it, so the scammers can target postal codes with higher rates of old and vulnerable people.
So all in all this also sounds like a particularly american problem, where little culture around data protection and a higher demand for public exposure exists and people are used to prostitution of their values, principles and civil rights.
Bro live under the botnet
Folks wanna know what they're getting into. Your social media feeds are an easy indicator. Your twitter all retweets of Andrew Tate? Facebook filled with pics of you dressed up like a leather dog? Truth social? Concerning for many women.
It can feel like you're guilty until proven innocent.
Well, it is not a court. But frankly i wouldn't want to be with someone, who cannot meet a couple times and develop an understanding of other people by actually talking and listening to them.
I also thinks this plays a role as to why so many relationships fail today. People have unlearned to build experience and trust their instincts, looking for preconceptions instead.