>>54156 (OP)
All trvkes

I never understood it as a kid either, so thankfully I never used social media as a kid to get indoctrinated into bullshit like this. 99% of social media is controlled by feds and they intentionally have filled every popular space with degeneracy and have designed these applications to be as addicting as possible to keep them coming back, which is then spread through natural means of your friends asking you to download instagram to talk to them. I never understood it when I was younger since I always thought that the default texting system on your phone accomplishes the same purpose with less effort than adding someone on social media. They ask you to add them on social media because of it's addicting features like streaks, stories, and other bullraisin that incentivizes them to interact with the app as much as possible, hence get more friends/acquaintances to add you.

I believe God had blessed me to make sure I never got into these circles. I had left-leaning 'normie' social and political views for most of my life, so if I got into social media when I was younger then I can only imagine the horror I could of turned out to be.

The internet just sucks for making connections with people. Even with the few aryan places like the sharty, I will never personally know you and truly appreciate you as a person like a real friend. The internet's greatest value is for information. If you use the internet as a social points game then you're using it wrong and will likely end up a retard, normie, or troon. Stay safe chuds.

>>54162
>I always thought that the default texting system on your phone accomplishes the same purpose with less effort than adding someone on social media.
this so much this. especially when a girl asks if i have social media thats a dealbreaker for me. like, nigga just text me its so much easier.
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nothing good comes out of those apps. it brings the worst out of people and makes them attentionwhores. nobody cares about the pics you post of yourself and your mind gets rotted off of those TikTok knockoffs.

>the internet sucks for making connections with people.
i think you are cool. thats enough of a connection, but really though you gotta experience life and talk to people in the real world instead.

>If you use the internet as a social points game then you're using it wrong and will likely end up a retard, normie, or troon.
all facts. imagine having the worlds largest library in your palms and you use it to post your new jordans or your tits.

>>54163
>especially when a girl asks if i have social media thats a dealbreaker for me.

I wasn't talking to girls since I was a lonely autist, but I would get annoyed when kids in school and online chatrooms/game chats ask for my social media and I have to explain that I don't have any. I always got confused reactions and they didn't get it. My answer was the same every time, which is that I had no reason to and I don't believe social media was something I needed.

I guess to give you a better insight, my girlfriend uses tiktok and says she isn't addicted to it and doesn't use it that much. She uses it almost daily, scrolls it when she's bored, and is constantly reposting tiktoks about media she enjoys. Wouldn't you know it, she was and still is involved with fandom culture (proshipping and troon stuff) and she's questioned her sexuality in the past. It clearly had an effect on her, which she's improved since she became Christian, but it still consumes a lot of her time and sometimes I just feel like she's brainwashed.

Idk it just makes me sad to see her so engaged with such materialistic stuff and realizing this is the average person our age. I also remind myself that I'm not any better, because I constantly go back to the same 3 games I play when I'm bored instead of doing something practical like working out, reading the Bible, or really anything else. But the different is I feel bad for this at least. I hate myself for being like that and it constantly makes me feel guilty; I can't get over it. It fucks me up knowing most people don't feel this doe. Their whole perceived purpose is to continue indulging.

I think you're cool btw if that matters

>>54164
>>54163
nvke and i think youre cool too geg

I was like you when I was like 12. I flat out refused any sort of social media (even WhatsApp geg), which led me to being socially isolated due to not engaging with the rest of my year at school. Obviously this all changed during lockdown, where I then began using discord for comms with various friend groups. Then again, I was only using it as a messaging app, didn't join any servers where I didn't know them irl.
I will never understand what pushes people to maintain snap streaks. You aren't sending them anything meaningful most of the time and it wastes your time.

>>54164
>I wasn't talking to girls since I was a lonely autist
i was like the complete opposite type of autist geg. i wanted a girlfriend for some reason evend0e i was NOT ready for it but every girl i asked wanted my instagram and i never had a instagram. thats why i never dated much or however you tell people of shit noone cares about.
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the worst part though is that the one girl who actually liked me texted me and we would walk to school together and i never realized she liked me until i moved away.

>I just feel like she's brainwashed.
its grim looking at the people you love and your whole classroom being on their phones. i remember back when being offline and playing sports was normal and you were seen as a weirdo for playing vidya on your 3ds.

>average person our age
>I'm not any better
facts though geg. i could be doing something better but id rather be playing Minecraft or TES4 or something stupid.

>>54170
snap streaks are proof that you are a retard. i think people like it because it gives them attention and dopamine because they are "connecting" with others

crazy how everyone itt has had the same experiences with social media. Maybe I'm an autist but I genuinely don't understand the motive of, say, making an instagram post. Like what do you get out of it? Are you trying to flex on everyone that wasn't with you for whatever you were doing? Do you simply like the idea of people knowing what you do on a daily basis?
<reddit space
I'm in university right now and everyone around me is telling me to make an instagram but I don't know wtf to put on it. I've heard that if you look like a sperg, normies share your posts amongst themselves and laugh at you behind your back.
<reddit
I'll probably make one regardless and take some perfunctory photos just so that I have something to give people when they ask.

Honestly the only real reason I could see myself willfully making a public social media is maybe a self-help youtube channel which I've been wanting to create for a while.

>>54221
>Honestly the only real reason I could see myself willfully making a public social media is maybe a self-help youtube channel which I've been wanting to create for a while.
keyed do this man

>>54221
>Like what do you get out of it?
tsmt nobody actually cares about your photos geg. people actually have only 5 followers and they post everyday.
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also instagram is the only way to share IG Reels so normniggers want you to get the mark of the beast just to see some brimstone brainrot they found funny.

>I'm in university right now and everyone around me is telling me to make an instagram but I don't know wtf to put on it.
your choice but id recommend not to. it adds to your digital footprint and its better to get off of social media anyways.
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trust me that youll never use instagram after graduation, unless if you specifically only use instagram to make self-help content for others.

>>54222
I will
>>54225
good points