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I don't think they are bragging. They are contributing to the conversation with directly relevant content/personal experience. I'm not sure why you decided to be confrontational and condescending about that.

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I also deleted all of my social media several years ago (except LinkedIn in case I need to find a job) to enormous personal benefit. Most people don't care when I bring it up. When I lived in suburbia, however, it was a different story. For every person that was interested or congratulatory when I told them I encountered five that were defensive about it and chose to frame it as some type of personal failing akin to alcoholism - "well I'm sorry that _you_ can't use it responsibly, but I can!".

I've no idea why this is and have more important things to do with my time then try to explain or rationalize this phenomenon but it was definitely a thing.

Mainly because I don't have an impression that it contributing to the conversation in a meaningful sense. We have a lot of different social media platforms out there. If you decided not to use one or more - good for you, but what exactly the message here? Could you explain it please?

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