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What is your REAL reason for not using a social media site? Any of them. And don't give me"they sale my data!" bullshit. Give me a legit reason. you have no excuse to not stick with society. I can almost take apart any issue you have with it.
>>55118329
Because I got banned.
I am required by my employer to not use them.
I have no interest in using any of them. I can already discuss things anonymously here on 4chan.
>>55118350
AHAHAHAHA that is the biggest bullshit excuse I've ever heard. you can make accs with out them knowing
>>55118391
so you don't like having friends?
https://stallman.org/facebook.html
>>55118398
I do not need social media to talk to my friends.
It's boring
I don't care about what other people are up to, I get my memes from 4chan.org, and I don't have a pressing need to update others on my current ongoings daily (please disregard the irony of the aforementioned statement in context of this post)
I have plenty of other hobbies and all the freetime in the world and I still feel there's not enough time in the day, so I don't need to have my eyes glued to twitter all the live long day
>>55118329
Im apathetic about society and the dumb shit people fill the place with. I stopped watching tv and listening to the radio for the same reasons. In fact, Im not just apathetic about society, society makes me mad with how bad it is.
If I need and want to talk to someone I use a dedicated means of communication.
>>55118398
You recognize the legitimacy of the reason so much that you're actually advocating I use a secret (and therefore fake) account, perhaps among the most socially autistic things that a person could do. What should I name it, XxXBlitzBaller420XxX? Or do you really think I should make an entirely convincing fake name and somehow not creep people out by having to explain "Oh I'm not actually named such and such."
This was fun. Take care ~Pu$$yDe$troyerLXIX~
>>55118329
I use twitter to follow my favorite porn artists.
>>55118329
I use it. But I want to 'delete' my accounts since I only talk to 1 person through it. But at the same time I don't want to sink further into the rabbit hole that is my distance from the real friends I once had. I'm hoping once I start college again I can stop being such a metaphorically proprietary person.
>>55118329
I have no friends. Take that apart, faggot.
>>55118445
>https://stallman.org/facebook.html
You have no idea how social media works do you?
>>55118426
>needing to update
nigga, I know people who do all the time and people who don't
>>55118444
so you use outdated means like an irc or skype I take it
>>55118445
As the stallman.org/ thing was on about, they laxed up on the names for that shit. People don't have to worry any more about hiding when you can turn off everything.
>>55118447
this
>>55118458
You can unfollow people you don't want to talk to.
>>55118460
that is 1 thing I can't do anything on.. I'm sorry anon
>>55118565
>You can unfollow people you don't want to talk to.
(You)>>>>>>>>>>>
. . . . . . . . . . .The Point
>>55118565
you didn't refute mine nor several other's arguments
in fact, explain to me why I SHOULD use it and I or anyone here can tear YOUR arguments apart
Are we really okay with OP inb4ing the data collection facet?
OP, you have to pick that one apart too shithead.
I legit dont have interest in them
I dont have a single friend
I dont need more timesinks in my life
I have social phobia and im paranoid of everyone judging my nonexistent personality
>>55118565
>>>55118444 (You) #
>so you use outdated means like an irc or skype I take it
If I did, so what? Phone, cell, email, discord, whatsapp, slack, hangouts, viking talk, irc are mostly it. Depends on my target (like irc only because the faggot uses only that) and if I like it or not. Skype makes me puke, its the ultimate example of shitty crapware.
>>55118589
literally socializing.
>>55118633
>shit head
that's uncalled for anon. Why so mean?
>data mining
>thinking any one cares what your favorite colour is
>I don't like amazon/ebay or facebook knowing what I'm interested in to help them work on their research on products like my next grapghics card
>No! I should tell them what I think so they don't have to dig for it!
>>55118662
get a shrink
>>55118765
I feel better that you say that at least. I've gone down to using fb messanger and discord and a little twitter just to post my thoughts.
Fb is there cause it's still fun to keep up on my gaming news
Discord is slowly turning into a social media.
>>55118771
>implying anyone is mandated to spend what little time they have left on stupid smalltalk and shit with people we hardly care sbout
My best friend and I sometimes dont talk for months, doesnt make us less friends. Socializing is a ceremonial waste of time like muricans and their anthem all the fucking time
>>55118771
social media isn't requisite to socialize, and most of us aren't fulfilled by social interaction, so again, why should we use it?
>>55118786
The thing with discord is that you should just use it how you like it. Everything it does is convenient for us, it works well, it's easy to set up and use, and it's consistent across all platforms and the website. Who cares about what their marketing team decides to label the thing or how others use it?
>>55118771
but i can socialise irl
or on irc
or other things that aren't social media
>>55118329
I do not care about what other people had for breakfast. Or about the traffic jam some people are stuck in. Or about the cute picture of a cat.
I spend years on MSN. And I gained nothing from it.
Why would I make the same mistake twice?
>I can almost take apart any issue you have with it.
what did he mean by that
>>55118840
>but I'll tripfag
oh the irony. Why should we care about you not caring about other people's lives?
>>55118329
Avoiding family
Avoiding people that knew me
Not being a pleb
I have no desire for people to know anything about me, my appearance or my activities. Go away
>>55118893
I don't think you are required to care. He's just giving his reasoning why he doesn't use social media.
>>55118893
I have answered OP's challenge.
>Give me a legit reason. you have no excuse to not stick with society. I can almost take apart any issue you have with it.
A lot don't mark any niche I am interested in.
I use Instagram though.
Facebook is fags yelling at each other.
>>55118910
the exact same is the case with social media
you don't have to care about that caveman spongebob pic but it's given nonetheless
>>55118947
> but it's given nonetheless
And because you don't care, you don't want to take it, and hence you have no reason to use social media since there are superior means of direct communications without all drawbacks of social media.
I don't use them because I have friends.
>>55118771
>get a shrink
Get a gun and kill yourself.
>>55118426
>It's boring
this
/thread
>>55118329
my family forces me to take a political position for everyone to see, otherwise they get mad at me. that gets me into trouble with everyone else if i comply.
if i dont, they wont care, so it is better for me to stay away from social media.
I only use FB for Messenger. Haven't kept up with friend's affairs or posted anything in months. It's too much effort for such little gratification.
>>55118329
Bad breakup and too much vapid shit. IG and Snapchat condense it all nicely without having to see the text based retarded shit.
Because it's a liability to your image. Like a pro Trump page? Good luck getting a job. Photo of you partying uploaded? Good luck getting a job. Didn't go to Sue from HR's wedding? Good luck not getting fired.
>>55119008
This is one of the worst aspects of social media.
>Friend A
>Very political
>Makes highly controversial political statement
>Tags (You)
>Family: WHY WERE YOU TAGGED?!?!?! DO YOU AGREE?!?!?! DO YOU DISAGREE!?!?!?!? EXPLAIN!!!!!
Social media is full of it.
>>55118899
basically this, but i do have a cuckbook in a manner of speaking. It gives me some feeling of being in touch with people but i usually deactivate it completely when not on it.
>>55118329
>tfw kikebook and co are datamining this thread
i wouldnt be surprised if they took actions based on what is posted in this thread.
>>55119057
Yes. I'm sure getting a bunch of poor NEETs who use adblock to sign up is central to Facebook's business model.
>>55118329
I come here.
It is a social media site where we talk about boring inane things and give a lot of data to google.
I don't have a blog, facebook, twitter or diaspora because I don't have things I want to share that way.
Facebook also doubles as an IM for some people, but I have other ways to get in touch with people
>>55118800
>being friends is stupid but I don't want to be lonely.
>>55118801
more so to keep up to date with what is going on in the world
>>55118819
literally what you said can be said about ANY other social media
>>55118840
do you live in 2005?
>>55118843
>MSN was a social media platform
LOL
>>55118892
>14
Thanks now you're banned. You realize that now you are going to be banned cause all of 4chan is meant for 18+
You have no opinion yet child.
MODS
>>55118899
>go away
then why did you come in here?
>>55118942
LOL you must be like in 2010 or some shit cause I keep away from those idiots
>>55118986
Salty anon. What's wrong with a shrink? I'd love to have a shrink
What's wrong anon? Need somoene to talk to? I'm listening
>>55119012
I honestly don't. I keep tabs on a handful of 50 something friends. People think that when you have a facebook, you have like 500 people on it. When I got on facebook originally, I had maybe around 200 friends. I realized, I didn't talk to 1/2 of them if not even 3/4 of them so why even matter?
>>55119032
at least you use those
>>55119041
>I think that my job pays attention to all the shit i do
You dumbass that is not how that works AT ALL. If you knew shit about social media you'd know you can turn all that shit off on almost all places
>>55119042
>last implying
I do agree, witch is why my friends don't tag me in shit cause they know me well enough
>>55119053
>unfollow
>>55119057
>anon thinks that facebook cares about 4chan
I wouldn't doubt Mark being the nerd he is, he shit posts on /b/ and /g/
>>55119081
I was wondering when someone was going to say 4chan is a social media.
>>55118329
fucking retarded cuck
stallman.org/facebook is the most legit excuse i know, and its mine aswell
so go deal with it u fag or go die
>>55119094
>I can almost take apart any issue you have with it.
Oh my.
>do you live in 2005?
Wow! Amazing response there, anon!
>>55118329
I don't have any friends.
>>55119147
this.
>>55118329
Nothing but a waste of time.
>>55119135
>go die
man why you so salty?
>>55119141
Why do you think I said Almost. I didn't want to have a reason to fall back on accident.
>>55118899
>I have no desire for people to know anything about me, my appearance or my activities
The vast majority of the time I agree. 5 years after closing my fb, never using my real info. I have no way to contact anyone who's number I don't already have, event promoters only using fb, forums are dead. I regret being such a recluse in a lot of ways.
There's nothing of value there. All of the people who added me there just share click bait shit or things I don't care about.
>>55119191
cause op (you?) is a retard for saying that privacy is no reason.
Of course its a reason, and its not the only one. There are multiple reasons, ans every one of them as it is enough to not use this shit.
Btw im not using any of this shit beside twitter under fake acc + fake mail.
The only reason I have a Facebook is to spread my SoundCloud and easier groupwork collaboration at university.
>>55119313
>privacy
I never said you couldn't have it. But then again, people on /g/ act like its a crime if they know EVEN your real name when the gov doesn't care who you are even when they already do. No one on /g/ is important. Everyone here is a damn neet.
>>55119346
did you check with /mu/ for the discord?
>>55118329
Cause I'd probably end up never using it anyway, is why.
>>55118329
Because I'm not a teenager. Only reason you should have one is if you are still in school/college. Seems like even ivy league professors want you in social media, once you graduate no one cares about fb.
>>55119362
Probanly they dont care, thats true. But doesnt matter - they collecr everything I do, im interested in etc. and sell it, and that sucks. I prefer hosting my own Diaspora instance & keep in touch with ppl that way / over email / over xmpp or other E2E encrypted chats, where I am not the product.
I prefer the format of this Chinese money laundering forum.
I talk to friends on the phone or see them in person. I have no need to network, and am happily married. None of my friends or family actively use social media. I believe no one cares what I look like or what I do day-to-day, and that makes me happy because all I want is a quiet life.
4chan is social media
>>55119901
hi grandpa, do you still use traditional mail?
Until facebook stop giving a voice to meat eaters and disparaging vegetarians I will not support them.
>>55118329
Because I'm socially recluse, and outside of my missus, you guys are the closest thing I have to friends.
I'm not even joking. ;_;
As a teen, I enjoyed sending handmade cards to faraway friends. I spent hours meticulously cutting and glueing together pieces of card stock, usually without the faintest idea of what to make or write, until I produced something to my liking. I let my hands do the thinking. When I graduated from high school and went off to college, so did I from cardmaking.
Don’t get me wrong—I prefer to stay in touch with friends and keep apprised of their lives. But I miss the richness that our interactions once had, and would much rather catch up with someone face-to-face or at least through a true correspondence, rather than peek at their life through the distorted lens of social media posts.
The time and energy I spend streaming disjointed snippets of consciousness to social media would undoubtedly be better spent writing and sharing more cohesive written works. And there are better, private platforms for journaling, which is primarily what I use social media for.
So today my Facebook and Twitter apps join the purge, replaced by trusty pencil and notebook paper. If you notice me less on social media (as I hope you will), know that I’m still around, and eagerly await and welcome your letters. Or a bicycle ride, walk in the park, and even just reading beside one another—anything but a tweet.
>>55118329
uglyness
I've been "online" since the late 1970s, seriously (yes that means I'm an old bastige, deal with it) when I started with the Dow Jones News service at a whopping speed of 50 baud with an acoustic coupler. Yes, I told you I'm old, fuckers.
Over the decades of progressing from that low speed, to CompuServe (was one of the first 100 users, original user ID was 70001,98), then on to using other services (I had been messing around with BBSes of all kinds in those times as well, from the most basic services in local areas to larger networks like FIDOnet and others), then onto faster networks, and so on.
What that means is in those decades of my "online" experience I've made thousands of friends around the world and we all started off at roughly the same points in time so, when we look at what's become of being online and the way the Internet (which many of us helped physically construct by designing the technologies now in use that make it possible to do the things like making this post on an image board/forum/etc) has turned out, we just kinda collectively laugh at people that are so new to this "Internet thing" that they just don't have the slightest fucking clue how far we've come in a relatively short period of time.
Anyway, we meaning the people I know and keep in touch with don't have any real use for "social media" or "social networks" because we've been doing this shit for 40 fuckin' years now or longer, we invented the entire concept of "being online," we were using smileys (that's what we called 'em in the good old days) back on CompuServe's CB Simulator in 1979 before anyone got around to thinking to create a stupid name like emoticons for them, let alone attaching some stupid graphic to 'em like what's being done nowadays. :( (that means sad, kids, sorry there's no stupid graphic, you just have to use your imagination)
But you kids, go right on ahead and have fun with it if that's your thing. Us old bastiges will just kick back and laugh.
>>55118329
I'm not a fucking sheep. Baa baa.
>>55118329
The reason? To stay away from people like you. I don't have any fondness for your personality type. So you keep being yourself, and I'll keep being myself and stay the fuck away from you.
>>55118329
I don't want to be used by facebook.
https://stallman.org/facebook.html
>>55118391
>>55118413
This exactly. I lived 20 years without Facebook and Twitter and guess what kids. I still have friends, we use this thing called a phone to communicate. It's just like social media but I don't have to remember any passwords. You children need to pull your head out if your arses and realize that your couple of social media sites DO NOT represent the culture at large. Your in a small garden with other people who think like yourself and your tricking yourself into thinking your plugged in to the whole world. People got along fine and dandy before we had a 140 character limit imposed on what we could say.
>>55120194
>cop out
>>55120199
gramps, go get your new paper and pipe.
phones are dying, it's all about texting and social media platforms. at this point, only my parents call me on the phone, everyone else talks to me on facebook/discord
>>55119951
Gayest thing I've ever read.
>>55120240
Everyone you know. Because you think the entire world is on your shitty little social media site. You actually think phones are dying? Your living in a bubble you little shit.
>>55120240
>phones are dying, it's all about texting and social media platforms. at this point, only my parents call me on the phone, everyone else talks to me on facebook/discord
It means you only know autistic people who can't speak properly, so they send you only text messages.
>>55120240
your a cop out
>>55118329
I disagree with the premise that using social media == "sticking with society"
I'd argue the contrary, actually.
Using social media is separating oneself from society 90% of the time.
>>55120310
It's sad really. A while generation growing up without the ability to actually interact with the people around them. Who use the internet, a modern marvel that can connect you to people all around the world, to sit in their small walled gardens and pretend to socialise with people they could actually talk to if they just picked up the phone or got of their fat ass and went to see.
>>55120055
Well, the thing is it's actually not just kids who use social media. There are plenty of pretty old adults who've used the internet since, say, the '90s or so who I've seen use Facebook and WhatsApp.
Also, I know someone who's used the internet even before that, (probably sometime around your newsgroup days,) who I was able to find on Facebook, so...
Because I don't like being friends with the kind of people that absolutely need me to be on facebook with them.
I'd rather not know about how much of a faggot you are when you're not talking to me, thanks. I'd rather no one else know. That would be embarrassing
Also "tagging" is the most glorious form of character assassination ever invented
>>55119094
>more so to keep up to date with what is going on in the world
You mean with exaggerated and spin-heavy news stories chosen based on your suspected political beliefs.
Social media + news = echo chamber
>>55118329
>What is your reason for doing this thing?
>The best, most valid reason is automatically disqualified because I said so
wew lad
>>55120355
Yeah here's why old people get on WhatsApp.
>Little billy never calls me or comes to see me anymore, I do miss him. How can I get his attention when he never looks up from that phone. I guess if I get a phone too I might be able to get some kind of communication with him.
>>55120288
About 23% of the world is on Facebook.
The people on there don't appeal to me, for one. My memories of high school aren't particularly fond, and ever since leaving high school I've been something of a loner, preferring to interact anonymously or at least under an online pseudonym. The last time I met someone new who had an actual lasting impact on my life was high school, so if I don't want to interact with those people there's really nothing else to draw me to social media.
It's possible that I'd have some use for an account on Twitter, where I won't need to use any identifying information or limit myself to interacting primarily with offline acquaintances, except nine out of ten tweets would be either parts of multi-tweet series or links to something like TwitLonger or whatever it's called: I have some trouble fitting my thoughts into 4chan's character limit at times, so it probably wouldn't even be possible for me to express a complete thought, with all the explanation I need to include for the sake of the idiots around me, in 140 or fewer characters.
because i hate using computers
>>55119919
hey son, do you still have actual friends?
no you fucking don't faggot you have "canis doganus the fluffy sergal" on steam and you 'totes know eachother' because you videochatted on skype once
fucking internet kids
-posted on 4chan
>>55119926
Vegetarians are mentally defective
In no way does valuing the lives of simpler animals make sense. They're more disposable and easily replaced than hobos with downs syndrome. Your sense of empathy has run amuck, probably because you have a mild form of autism and watched too many furry cartoons.
because i don't like the way the people i know act on social media, but i'm not going to tell them to stop, so i just deleted my account
>>55120355
Oh, woops, I failed reading comprehension. You said you subscribed to the Dow Jones, not that you were necessarily using newsgroups at the time. Sorry.
People turn into retards the instant they do or say something online. I don't want to hate people more than I already do.
Also I have no friends.
>>55120388
Yeah sure. I'm sure none if those accounts are just sitting dead or were set up and used once 10 years ago. I'm sure every Facebook account represents someone who spends dozens of hours a week on it.
>>55118444
Yeah. Shitposting on then chans is just so much better right?
>>55120480
It's a little better, because it's spontaneous human opinions with no "higher" purpose instead of manufactured media from people who went to school to study what is literally a form of mind control.
>>55120480
You know it is. Drop in and drop out as you like. Saying something dumb doesn't come back to bite you on the arse later. Connect with people from all walks of life. And most importantly it all gets forgotten in a matter of days no matter what happens. Like how conversations work in real life.
>>55120505
>shills don't real
>meanwhile, the IDF literally posts on /pol/, microsoft literally posts on /g/, and the FSF literally pays chinese orphans to call the linux OS "GNU/Linux"
>>55120385
I didn't mean that old. I meant more like, say, parents of kids in their 20s.
>>55118329
B..but I do senpai?
Even if you're worried about them stealing your data.... just don't give them much data? For example I mostly just use my facebook to talk to like family members and foreign friends with whom I obviously can't easily just text or socialize in person with. And also sometimes a website I use will be like "Like our page for x bonus!" and then it's nice for that too.
why would I take my social stigmas and prejudices others associate with me during interaction into the online sphere when there are sites like the chans where I'm treated as an equal among equals?
Also, facebook is horrible as a means of actual meaningful discussion and sharing of interesting content, which is the only thing I found myself interested in during my time there (like two years). I don't care where you went out this evening or if you've got a new haircut, but do you have interesting things to say or cool links to share? I used to regularly post/share links to music/opinion pieces I like but there were no signs of appreciation from any of my peers so I stopped. Only thing I found it useful for is keeping track of events (concerts first and foremost), but to most of these I didn't go or got invited to anyway.
>>55120701
You know full well they only use it to share their candy crush scores.
because i don't want to socialize on the interwebs with my real identity. social media to me is only for business not pleasure
>>55118329
I don't have any friends to talk to. Making new friends is a pointless endeavour that will ultimately lead to nothing.
>>55120754
Mayber but they do tend to chat on WhatsApp a lot.
>>55120288
>>55120295
Nah, we just get on discord at this point, I have other things I want to do at this point and have more people to talk to and checking shit out so why waste my time on the phone?
>>55120303
YOUR FACE!!
>>55120310
I do understand that tho, a lot of people are saying that social media is anti social media now.
>>55120370
you can completely turn off tags, and I have around like 50 friends on facebook
>echo chamber
OK you're not wrong.
But I mostly stick to game news and DC comics
>>55120390
the fuck you on? A crystal ball?
>>55118329
>What is your REAL reason for not using a social media site?
It's pretty simple: Power corrupts.
Giving someone so much data means power.
As long as Facebook is situated in a coutry where guys like Barrett Brown go to jail and people like Snowden, Manning or Assange get witch-hunted, I won't give those fucks my personal data.
Also in China people get already indexed based on their internet usage. Do you think this can't happen elsewhere?
Also: what do you think, why did the US and the UK put enourmous money flows in big data centers? For fun and science?
Also: It's shocking how much stuff you can find out about people who are not aware of social networks. It's just a matter of PerSec.
>>55118460
are you me?
After a decade of watching the trolls of the Internet raid anyone from whom they think they'll get a good reaction, which can be anyone with the techniques they use, or anyone with whom they may disagree, which considering the political extremism of the Internet can be just about anyone, we all should know there are two known ways to protect yourself: be visibly so bland, small-minded, and uncontroversial that you give nobody reason to raid you, or never ever use your real information online. And I don't feel like censoring myself 24/7. I can hold it back at work, but I must be honest online, and honesty breeds enemies.
>>55120868
>I have other things I want to do at this point and have more people to talk to and checking shit out so why waste my time on the phone?
Yeah, I don't have a thousand "friends" to tease with how kewl my day was via text, so I have enough time to talk with people that I care on the phone.
>>55120928
I mean yeah but I think I follo9w like 5 important people all together at best max 10 I think.
Nobody likes me.
My main reason is i like to begin an anon.
Here you go the others:
>no problems with people about your political thinking (free speech)
>not playing the retard liking image macros with poorly bad jokes (normies)
>high IQ
>private life is not on internet
>like face-to-face comunication, watch eyes people makes me feel if i should trust or bump
>also, all the social networks in spanish fucking suck, seriously... all of them fucking suck
>>55118329
>do you live in 2005?
>LOL
>LOL you must be like in 2010 or some shit
>You dumbass that is not how that works AT ALL
>gramps, go get your new paper and pipe.
Wow, you sure like ad hominem.
Honestly, I would be embarrassed by having these as my arguments.
I have no reason at all to use anything online except for occasionally coordinating a project with other people but that can easily be done in real life.
How about you give me reasons to use social media?
>>55121215
I'm not even trying anon.
The biggest reasons as to why social media is useful is cause you can get news fasters. All news sites and game sites I've ever come across uses facebook, twitter and instagram as an outtlit to grab people. Using said social media can spread information faster. That being said, I can find things out on Pokemon faster about Sun and Moon and Pokemon Go. I try to stay connected about it when I can. I get notifications on my tablet now thanks to a new update they added.
I would say aside from keeping up with friends, it's a good source of news. This does not mean you should follow like CNN/Fox/CBS (fuck them, I don't like boring ass news). I would say follow your interests.
Also, any one using facebook and sick of all that shit off to side like adds and games, go get Facebook Purity. google it. It's useful as fuck. You guys are smart, you will figure it out
>>55121345
>You guys are smart, you will figure it out
Thanks. I did figure it out. I don't use facebook.
>>55121345
Keeping up with friends is useless for me. If you care about someone else's personal life you are basically living their life instead of yours.
You other argument is that it combines all relevant news sources to you in one single source. Guess what, I use YouTube for that. Why have hundreds of pointless news to filter out the relevant ones if I can have someone do that for me and tell me about them in a 10 minute video?
Besides, we are talking about SOCIAL networks and this use is totally beyond the social aspect in which these networks are centered around.
>>55121385
Smartass.
I'm talking about Facebook Purity
>>55121498
>living your life instead of yours
same thing can be said about watching the news. So you're saying that social media is pointless to see what's going on for about 20 minutes cause you're bored?
>using youtube as a social media
I thought they took this function away?
>>55121562
I am smarter than that.
>>55121345
You get bubbled news, tailored to your interests and views. There's no point.
You can not affect the news. You can only expand your horizons. So if you don't....
>>55121562
Social media isn't pointless because i'm bored. It is pointless because you gain nothing from knowing any of that information. It has no value. Your life will be exactly the same if you don't waste those 20 minutes so why do it in the first place?
And Youtube isn't a social media for me because I'm just watching a video. I'm not commenting or interacting in any way with people therefore I'm not using it as a social network.
>>55118329
Me and my friends, we have a bunch of small imageboards that we shitpost together on.
>>55121597
i guess
>>55121624
the comments can get damn near salty on it.
>>55121668
why not consider using discord? it's easy as fuck to use
>>55118329
I don't have many friends, also I've always been hesitant to just add people as friends. Even as a kid with MSN messenger, people would add me, never the other way around. I fear rejection i guess.
I'm also afraid of being judged. I think a lot of people are dishonest about how their life is and paint it as if its going fantastically on Facebook but you don't get the truth unless you know them personally. I don't have the drive to bullshit about my own life on Facebook but I also don't want to be honest about how its currently going because I'm not where I want to be in life and I don't want others knowing this and judging me for it.
Lastly I get FOMO (fear of missing out). This just depresses me, I don't need to know so and so from the past has just found the love of their life, or bought a house or had a fantastic holiday. I'm working on improving my situation so I can one day be one of those supposedly happy people. But for now I'm not happy and I get nothing out of seeing others being happy, it just reminds me of what I don't have yet.
>>55118444
How can you be both apethetic and made angry about something??
>>55118329
I don't like it. What other reason do I need??
>>55118329
>being facebook employee
>ask for promotion
>"well, you did good work. Bring us 1000 new souls, and the dark lord will approve your promotion."
>idea.tiff
>later that day:
>"What is your REAL reason for not using a social media site? Any of them."
>>55121696
Are you calling me salty?
Is this you starting to resort to ad hominems and giving up on trying to "take apart my issue"?
>>55121714
>FOMO
Pretending it's a real thing and your not just a weak human who can't stand not being part of the crowd
>>55121696
>discord
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FAGGOT
For voip, use mumble.
Also I can keep ten boards open with 1000 posts in each open thread and my laptop will be fine, opening discord turns it into a flaming hoverboard. Discord is shit.
>>55121748
I used discord and had no problems with it, ever.
Stop blaming software for your shortcomings as human being.
I'm here aren't I?
>>55121731
I was saying the comments on youtube do anon
>>55121748
>I'm using outdated shit that even /g/ is starting to see is dumb
>keeping discord open kills me
dude, I prolly have the worst computer here and it runs fine. I have a 10 year old PC with nothing new but an audio card at best. It works amazing here.
Don't you have to pay for mumble?
/g/ one time hated windows 7 and now loves it, they one time hated 8 and now love it. It's only a matter of time till they love 10 and say how good it is.
>>55121764
this
>>55118329
>you have no excuse to not stick with society.
Discounting even a shred of intelligence.
Society is abhorrent. What sort of klepto-masturbatory anthropoid would actively seek out the regurgitated inanities of their purported peers?
>>55121809
people who aren't neets
>>55121781
Sorry for my shit reading comprehension.
Anyway, my point still stands.
Youtube videos are a better, quicker, more concentraded and selective source of news.
The bad comments (which I admit can be awful) can be ignored. And even then comments are made by certain people. Your site also have those people (they are attracted by the same type of news) , so the discussion is just as bad.
Besides, the shit comments aren't related with the quality of the video.
>>55121764
I blame software, and so should you.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1403_02-08_mickens.pdf
Honestly, anything web based is cancer. Really too bad the imageboards reside on this corner of the internet.
>>55121781
Mine's 10 years old too, what do you know!
And aside from the cpu maybe being weak, it does do everything just fine.
Just not when people attempt to reimplement the last couple of decades of technological progress in-browser using broken javascript. The link above is for you too, I guess.
So I tried running Windows ME on 15 years old mid-tier hardware, and where that came short was, you guessed it, the newest browser that I could run, released last year, couldn't run the javascript of the modern web.
The web is pure cancer and if it didn't exist you would've not needed to upgrade a single piece of technology in 15 years.
>>55121827
disgusting
>>55121837
yeah
>>55121865
>anything web based is cancer
get the application
did you try running Linux mint? Normally on a laptop that old should have no issues but honestly, I'd get a tablet if I were you for the simple fact that even that is a POS
Unless you're in the same situation as me, where you you don't have a choice
>>55118329
4chan is social media retard, believe it or not. This domain gets as much daily visitors as Reddit.
>>55121908
we established this a lot of posts up, I was also waiting for someone to say it
>not reading the thread
WHO'S THE RETARD NOW?
>>55121739
Its natural to want to be part of the crowd anon. Nobody likes being alone.
>>55118329
Not technology, repoted, kys, etc.
>>55121895
Uhm... are you agreeing with me?
Because my ultimate point is that there is no reason to use social networks.
By agreeing with me you are admitting that.
Are you sure that's what you want?
>>55121929
Wrong. Some people do. It is as simple as that.
>>55121924
>you socialize with other people
>you share media like photos and webms
>not social media
>>55121946
i used the word "almost" meaning you I'll try but I know I wont win them all and I'm ok with that
>>55121944
technically social media is IS tech. How? what the fuck you lookin at this on? A newspaper?
>>55121895
It's a laptop tablet converible, running arch.
I doubt any general tablet would reach the functionality of this machine though.
>>55121970
No dude, I was saying it is. I was also saying that I was waiting for someone else to say so
>>55121977
Have you tried a regular-like tablet with android?
>>55121908
This is different though. I can call you a faggot cuck Jew and claim Hitler should have killed all the Muslims and not have 100 people dogpile me with "thatsh racist!!!" Or people refuse me a job because they saw X post on Y social media site where I was trolling stupids about about being fat or whatever.
Plus I hate to say it because you're all fucking fags but I have more in common with most on 4chan than any people on Facebook. And I'm 100% okay with not really knowing who you are or what the fuck you're all about.
>>55121953
What are you doing on 4chan then if you prefer going it alone.
>>55122023
4chan is a place to be alone together, anon-kun.
>>55121991
Sure.
I like my x86 software and USB ports though.
>>55118329
But I am on 4chan. If 4chan is not a social media site, what is it?
>>55121972
Well, I guess this thread is done for me.
I should give myself a cookie or something.
>>55118329
I do, I just don't give them real info.
The largest problem is that none of them have proper controls in place for me to stop other users from tagging me, and do things like match my phone number in their phones to my account even if my own account isn't connected to a phone number.
>>55122050
>anonymous social media
>>55118398
OP. we know you have anger issues. but no need to throw shitty flames at /g/. so back to /v/ with you
>>55122056
!! Lots of chocolate chips anon! :D
>>55122086
check in your settings. You should have something that can stop that
>>55122181
>I have anger issues
Like 5 people have told me to kms so far. I'm not even mad anon
>go back to /v/
gross that the home of cancer. Not even as bad as r9k
>>55122191
I feel like you are being ironic but I don't really know. It's not normal for people to be nice here.
>>55122246
I'm genuinly nice anon. I am one of the few people who don't want to be a dick out of spite. I see no real point.
>>55122032
glorious :D
I prefer to talk to my friends in real life.
I prefer associal media sites like this board
>>55118346
10/10
Because everytime I check it I realize that I hate people in general even more. So by shielding myself away from makes me a lot happier.
Im not interested in wasting time on it
>>55122925
Really like the image.
>>55122925
people always misinterpet what a pentagram means. I wish people would stop associating it with satan.
>>55118329
I find email far more productive.
>>55124303
I don't. You don't even have a guarantee of somebody seeing your email, let alone reading it.
>>55125134
Yeah, that's the point.
I wast enough time on 4chan I don't have any time to spare
>>55118329
pop3/smtp works well enough for me.
death to html e-mails!
>>55118329
I don't have anything interesting to post, nor do I find most people's drama interesting to me. Meeting with some folks every once is a while is enough.
>meeting with people tonight
>it's going to be the same old boring shit it is every friday
Being poor and having poor friends is the worst shit ever.
