Anyone else using this site as a slow decompress from social media? - It has likes and following.

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It's coming up to a year since I stopped using all social media. I make sure I have to have someone's IRL number, and that's not many people.

The whole fake friends thing from social media that is likes etc...getting those ratings off randoms here, I've noticed feels the same. It's actually more honest because you know it's some random asshole rather than that dude you met once. Suppose they are the same. Again, this is more honest. You know it isn't a "friend" but a random shitposter.

It's all bollocks. Likes, stickers, etc. But the notifications here are a nice placebo when you retract from the rest of the world.
 
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I never participated in social media and I never will. If Forums are considered social media, I guess i've used it all my life, but I feel its a lot different than twitter, fb, and all that shit. I feel forums are less about your identity and more about discussion. I'm sure if you use this site for a long time you'll start to see familiar faces, and you could probably start considering them your acquaintance if you like them.
 
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I stopped using it regularly in about 2016. I started using Facebook in 2011 to 2012. I even had multiple accounts to get around those stupid temp bans they used to do years ago. I was in my last year of High School when Myspace was released, and I never used it. It didn't last though before Facebook killed it. I had a Twitter account I used a few times back then and I never went back. I started a Gab account back in 2017 and used it once or twice and never used it again. I never put any of my real information on them. I treated them like a huge forum. I made up a fake screen name and went around posting stuff and pissing people off. I was using forums in mid to late 2000's when people were still using Myspace and Facebook. Everyone kept telling me get a myspace you should get a myspace and I always said I didn't want one.

Even back when I first started using Facebook it was pretty censorship heavy. But it only got worse, and I got sick of being temp banned for saying shit that wasn't even offensive. A lot of those normie faggots on social media would report you for saying anything. I had a strict rule I follow to this day on the internet. I don't snitch. One thing I found out is the internet is full of a bunch of little faggot snitches. Like those little dweeb faggots in school who would run and tell the teacher everything. That's who uses the internet. Even before social media these little faggots still existed.

Too many people take social media serious and act like it's the real world and shit, but it isn't. It's mostly these terminally online sperg types that go around acting like Twitter and Reddit are the real world. 22% of the US population uses Twitter and it's mostly left leaning people under the age of 40.
 
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MrTroll said:
Oh, so that's how it is, huh?
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Baby, I'm sorry. I will always love you.

Tacitus Kilgore said:
I stopped using it regularly in about 2016. I started using Facebook in 2011 to 2012. I even had multiple accounts to get around those stupid temp bans they used to do years ago. I was in my last year of High School when Myspace was released, and I never used it. It didn't last though before Facebook killed it. I had a Twitter account I used a few times back then and I never went back. I started a Gab account back in 2017 and used it once or twice and never used it again. I never put any of my real information on them. I treated them like a huge forum. I made up a fake screen name and went around posting stuff and pissing people off. I was using forums in mid to late 2000's when people were still using Myspace and Facebook. Everyone kept telling me get a myspace you should get a myspace and I always said I didn't want one.

Even back when I first started using Facebook it was pretty censorship heavy. But it only got worse, and I got sick of being temp banned for saying shit that wasn't even offensive. A lot of those normie faggots on social media would report you for saying anything. I had a strict rule I follow to this day on the internet. I don't snitch. One thing I found out is the internet is full of a bunch of little faggot snitches. Like those little dweeb faggots in school who would run and tell the teacher everything. That's who uses the internet. Even before social media these little faggots still existed.

Too many people take social media serious and act like it's the real world and shit, but it isn't. It's mostly these terminally online sperg types that go around acting like Twitter and Reddit are the real world. 22% of the US population uses Twitter and it's mostly left leaning people under the age of 40.
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My first experiences of the internet were irc in the late 90s. The whole doxing yourself for social media I always found insane. Of course, in the mid 2000s I had to do it because everyone else was...never should have bothered. Should have quit way sooner. Kept getting banned anyway every time I posted honestly.

I can post honestly here, but I can't have my real name attached to it.

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Oh my boys, my boys, we are at the end of an age! We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in, shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour, and here we are, we three; perhaps the last island of beauty... in the world
 
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Russian Bot said:
Baby, I'm sorry. I will always love you.


My first experiences of the internet were irc in the late 90s. The whole doxing yourself for social media I always found insane. Of course, in the mid 2000s I had to do it because everyone else was...never should have bothered. Should have quit way sooner. Kept getting banned anyway every time I posted honestly.

I can post honestly here, but I can't have my real name attached to it.

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Oh my boys, my boys, we are at the end of an age! We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in, shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour, and here we are, we three; perhaps the last island of beauty... in the world
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I never had a computer in the 90's. If I did use a computer, it was a very brief moment when I was in a store and saw some on display and this was in the early to mid 90's. By the late 90's I had found a friend that had a father who was into computers. That's where I played Doom, Duke 3D and Wolf 3D at. My parents bought me the video games they could afford so I NES, SNES and Genesis but PC's were still too pricey. I first used the internet in 1997 at my friends house. So I didn't have any experience with the internet in the 90's.

I didn't get my first computer till around 2000. I remember going to the local Best Buy and getting the 56K dialup modem and having my friend's father install it for me. I actually watched him install it and he helped me set it up. But I didn't start using forums till the mid 2000's. I even managed to get my hands on some old video games I used to play. My friend's dad had copies of Doom, Duke 3D and Wolf 3D which he installed on my PC. Later on I got copy of Diablo 1 and Panzer General II. My first ever forum was a video game related forum in the summer of 2006.

I always preferred the forums. I hate Reddit and Reddit kind of killed all the forums. Most of the forums out there now are dead or pretty lifeless. Even the IGN and Gamespot forums are kind of dead, at least the last time I checked years ago. The forum I and gaming site I used in 2006 isn't even around anymore and the magazine stopped being produced like 11 years ago. If you can find a magazine rack in stores now there isn't a single video game magazine on them. Everything is online now.

The whole worlds gone to shit. lol
 
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Imagine using social media for anything other than advertising and grifting.

I have a linkedin, an instagram for my business and a telegram account to talk to my one moldovan friend on the ukraine border who is currently trying not to get shelled.
 
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I learned a very long time ago that people on the internet are idiots. People overshare their information, publicly espouse retarded beliefs and get into stupid slap fights over superficial and contrived bullshit. Despite having social media accounts in the past (think 2008-2011ish), I never posted a thing simply because I was and still am antisocial. I decided that if anyone wanted to associate with me, they'd ask for my phone number and we'd talk or hang out outside of whatever function we've met at. Personal connections hold value, digital ones do not and so I deleted my social media accounts.

The only accounts I keep now are private burner accounts for the sake of crawling social media for information pertaining to the topics of various forum pages. I can't say that I use this site to decompress because I never fell into the trappings of social media in the yesteryear. Also, thanks to my attitude towards the internet and other people, my digital footprint is incredibly shallow.
 
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I never used social media sites much, I’ve mostly kept to forums. Never had a MySpace or Twitter account. I rarely posted on my Facebook account and the handful of times I tried commenting on articles or threads I was either temp banned for wrongthink or dogpiled on by the mouth breathing retards that compose the majority of Facebook users. Deleted the account years back. Never had an Instagram, never been on TikTok, my digital footprint is pretty nonexistent and I’m happy to keep it that way. When I was growing up we were told not to overshare personal info online, never know what kind of weirdos might want that. Now you’re seen as an anomaly if you don’t document every waking moment of your life online
 
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I was never really all that into social media to begin with. At most I'd use it for small news updates but these days it's so crammed full of lefties it's unbearable to use. If I were able to somehow magically automatically filter out posts from idiot liberals I might be more inclined to use it. Twitter is basically the liberal media disguised as a social media platform.

Also, the block button is bullshit. You should not be able to prevent anyone from reading or replying to your tweets unless you protect your account. The block button in my opinion should function the way the mute button does. Actually now that I think of it protecting your account shouldn't be something you should be able to do, either.
 
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i tried twitter and facebook but they feel very empty and you feel like nobody even notices you so you just keep having the feeling of talking to thin air because nobody sees what the hell you're saying, oh also the obvious problems with the autisitc zoomer culture you have to keep up with or you might not know why the spongebob sex with the caption "GOYO" is funny to people

i enjoy using forums more as i can actually contribute to something and not be yet another slave to another account
 
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