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> I've never had a facebook, myspace or youtube account and never will.

Nice work. I don't know why people are voting you down.

Because people who brag about not using a particular website come across as unbearably smug.

I think they are just leading by example.

Well, saying things like "I think that period marked the true shift of the internet from a tech oriented population to the "normie" population" as if it's bad that other people get to enjoy the Internet, comes off as pretty damn smug.

Case in point.

Preferring different methods of communication doesn't make you smarter or a leader. It means you have different preferences, nothing more.

I think it means that someone achieved what most of us wish we could have achieved: not getting dragged into getting used by social networks that mine our data and use it to manipulate our behavior. Seeing that someone has successfully done it increases the chances that other people will be able to do it.

Most people don't use those sites out of educated choice -- they got manipulated into using them and would want to leave if they knew what the sites were doing.

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