i installed instagram in december and it’s so much easier to make friends. I feel in touch with what’s going on in the community
Reddit is probably among the least sticky social media sites because of it.
(Although it's been a while now; the user hostility is just too much).
Huh... I did this with Facebook and it basically changed nothing. I was forced to text my friends life updates, that was it.
Out of every social media site I've quit, Facebook seemed to have the lowest impact on my life(as long as I or my wife checked it every 1-3 weeks for Events).
It seems Facebook has an ability to make you feel popular without actually making you friends. I'd be skeptical of the 'friends' you make on Instagram. I've made a few over the last 6 years, but since quitting, I really only talk to 1-2 of them rarely.
gonna take your advice and cut off the people i’ve met because hospitalJail is skeptical!
Appreciate you providing insight into my life
Considering making it back let’s see
i don’t in my hometown and didn’t go to school near my home state.
old friends get harder to see every passing year. it’s just incrementally harder to stay in touch given the geographical distance. i do text and visit when i can
Yea, my “true” friends will contact me anywhere, but it’s nice to have a small network of people I know that I can invite to stuff or even better yet invite me to events and activities. They may also become close friends at some point.
Internet misanthropes contributing to the trend for people to lose friends and acquaintances as they age.
A friend recently deleted all his apps and he asks me I just email him if I want to talk. I'm just not gonna do that. I barely remember to email my work people.
Interesting point.
> A friend recently deleted all his apps and he asks me I just email him if I want to talk. I'm just not gonna do that. I barely remember to email my work people.
Oh. You have zero self-awareness. Got it.
Since you can't figure it out yourself -- you are doing that first thing in that second thing. Your poor friend.
Not wanting to jump through hoops for someone you don't necessarily care that much about ain't 'zero self awareness'
It helps me trim down 'friends' who might not be real friends.
I tend not to be the person who tends to bother other people constantly even after getting signals that they don't want to interact with you. Are you?
That's something this strategy helps to trim out. Who I want to talk to and jump through hoops for, and whom I don't.
If you put them below “work people”, they’re not a friend. Or rather, you’re not a friend.
That's something this strategy helps to trim out. Who I want to talk to and jump through hoops for, and whom I don't.
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