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    Oh no I don’t have any of those but you can visit me on Lemmy Mastadon and Nostr!

    (Proceeds to explain further only to confuse them more)

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      Yeah this happened to me when i only used Reddit. Now they get even more confused because it is (almost) only lemmy. Because most people have at least heard the name reddit, but not lemmy.

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      I’ve been told I must be a serial killer multiple times because I don’t have instagram.

      I have killed several people but it’s not because I don’t have instagram.

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      Same. Whatsapp. The market has become so fragmented that it’s all about social clout and what you can compel others to install just to talk to your sorry ass.

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        I actually use WA a lot. Most of my family doesn’t live in the same country I do and I have quite a few friends in different countries. Texting is not an option for us.

        But Instagram, as far as I know, is just a platform to post pictures. I don’t care about my own pictures or pictures of others.

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          Believe it or not, kids these days are using Instagram dms over Whatsapp

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      Good riddance if you ask me. Imagine what else comes with that sort of real estate

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      Aren’t your friends meant to also use Lemmy for it to count as social media?

      No one I know knows what Lemmy is.

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          Interaction through a medium is social media i guess. But i wouldn’t call ist that. Lemmy, WhatsApp and YouTube aren’t really social media for me. I don’t throw personal stuff into the void of people i more or less don’t know in hope to get likes.

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          I would argue that a forum is a type of social media. It’s very different in that it’s as anonymous as you want it to be. But it is still a place where people visit for the purpose of socializing

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        *I* don’t even know what Lemmy is, and I’ve been using it daily for months!

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      I read the meme in the way that it feels like telling people you’re not on social media since you’re on none they know.

      Also: is Facebook really still a thing?

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        It can be surprising because lemmy’s demographic is like the opposite of facebook’s but, yeah, it really still is a thing.

        A tip I often hear given to new start ups is to not underestimate how many people are only on facebook.

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          Where I live, Facebook is used by baby boomers, so yes it’s still used. But that’s the cliche. When I log in, I still see some millennials being at least online and some even posting unironically. But it’s mainly dead for millennials

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        Can’t say for OP but it still very much is where I live. People use groups for all sorts of things (neighborhood chats, classes, hobbies) and Messenger is the go-to way to contact everyone (which I admit has one advantage over all other mainstream means of contact, which is not requiring to share one’s phone number, only name)

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    Not on Instagram/Facebook/Snap/Tiktok. Trying to avoid all conspiracy videos/rage-bait videos on YouTube. It’s done wonders for my mental health.

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    I removed myself from Facebook because everytime I was at a get together with friends or family it was going like:

    Have you heard about this? Yes, I’ve read it on Facebook.

    To almost all questions. With most people ending up looking at their phones because there was nothing left to talk about…

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      Exactly! It’s so much more engaging to learn all of these things organically as you catch up with someone. I still have Insta but am using it less and instead, sharing photos with my friends directly.

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    Normies are like: if you’re not a regular in Zuck’s Casino, you may was well be a weird hermit living in a shack in the woods, like Ted “Bon Iver” Kaczynski or something

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      Ted died a few months ago of suicide, but he was deathly ill with cancer. So he would have died shortly after anyways.

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    I don’t understand these memes… you are literally posting on a social media platform right now… this here is social media. Lemmy is social media. We are socializing, with media, you can comment, you can post image and links, this is social media…

    Why do people somehow mental gymnastic themselves into thinking they are above social media while still actively posting on social media. I see memes like this here on lemmy all the time, saw them on reddit too, it makes absolutely no sense.

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    I quit a few years ago. Super liberating, but after 2 years of practically nobody jumping on Signal with me, and being left out of friend group chats, I settled on “Facebook lite” for my phone. I dont post, or scroll the feed. Just available for chats.

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      I’d say mostly practical reasons. It’s hard to get everyone in your contacts list to switch to Signal or other options. WhatsApp is so widely used that it’s hard to eliminate it completely without losing touch with friends or family. We’re trying, and hopefully with time enough people will switch that WhatsApp can fall to the wayside

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    I definitely would unfriend most of my friends if I would see their Instagram or facebook stories. Good for them, I don’t watch their garbage.

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    I have Facebook, but rarely ever use it, but it stays there in case it’s someone’s first port of call to contact me that may not have any other means to do so.

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      Thank you. There is definitely a middle ground between full blown scrolling addict and deleting all social media lol.

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    I have them for whenever I have the need to comment on something but my pages are mostly empty with fake info. My display pics are random stuff nearby like a closeup of my carpet, the wall, or something on desk.

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    I use Instagram because there’s art on Instagram. I can have direct conversations with artists and musicians I follow. I’m Internet friends with an alternative country music singer I showed up as a fan of. I’ve gotten personal advice from an artist I consider incredibly wise. And I suppose I’m networking. I have a bunch 0f regional cannabis industry companies and professionals on there. I can’t get any of that from Lemmy, which has already been called social media in this discussion. From the moment I had the opportunity, I’ve always done most of my socializing online. I’ve just grown to the point where I can’t get all my social needs met by pseudonymous conversations with strangers, as important as that still is to me.