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I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.
Quote from: Nemesis on July 21, 2019, 07:03:54 AMI’m sick of social media. There, I said it. I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic.I agree with you Nemisis! I get what you are feeling.
“I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!”
We missed the bus because it was over five minutes early, and it only goes once an hour. I broke down crying. I'm ALWAYS super early except for now (this time things just came up, but we still would have made it easily if the bus didn't fly by seven minutes early), it was 35°C, I have bronchitis and we had groceries that needed to be in the fridge. To top it all off, I lost €10 in the next bus because the fricken chip card system never works properly. Also, upcoming Thursday it's going to be 40°C. Quote from: Nemesis on July 21, 2019, 07:03:54 AMI’m sick of social media. There, I said it. I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.As someone who has been harassed and stalked (NOT HERE) both online and in real life, I refuse to put my real name, photo, location, etc. on random social media groups for all to see. Online anonymity isn’t just a handy tool for trolls—it’s also a safety measure that protects innocent people from being victimized. For that reason, I don’t think of Facebook groups as any kind of substitute for forums. Does no one value privacy anymore?I also can’t fathom why people would care to share, like, or read about random, boring things like “I went to McDonalds! Here’s a crappy selfie of me eating fries!” Excuse my old-timer ramblings... I sometimes feel very alone in my general distaste for social media. It has its uses (keeping in touch with family and close friends, sending fan mail, or getting in touch with companies, businesses, etc.), but the way most people use it seems so... pointless and narcissistic. I feel the same way!
I don't do heat either! Horrible, horrible. We don't have aiconditioning either, just a small fan. We put frozen bottles of water in front of it, which really helps, but we have such a tiny freezer. Four 500ml bottles and it's full, so it's not like we can create a whole bunch of them or use big bottles.
I’m sick of social media. There, I said it. I’m sick of how everything now is tied into it, and forums are dying off in favor of FB groups and whatnot. I’m sick of how EVERY. LITTLE. THING. now calls for comments, opinions, and “likes”.
I don't like it, either. Most people are just using social media to essentially roleplay; photoshopping their bodies and faces to hell and back and lying about it. Acting like their life is such and such.And then there is the oversharing and begging for validation (likes).