Social media presence as in having accounts in your name with you being visible in the profile picture in mainstream sites (Anything Meta, Twitter, Snapchat, Tiktok…). I don’t consider anynounmous accounts on Lemmy, Reddit, Kbin relevant to the scope of this question.
As an introvert who never wanted my business to be out in the open with my real name attached, no. Was always told never use your real name online and how many times people these days had themselves bitten for doing the opposite it should be obvious by now. Not really the masses fault but the standard from Facebook years ago.
Not really. In fact, I did a little dumphone detox a few weeks ago and literally nothing changed other than not having access to apps like telegram until I could access my laptop. Oh, and no video calling. I think now that I’m in my late 20s, married, with my little circle of close friends, and work peers I don’t really find a need for social media. Now when I was in high school and witnessed the birth of Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, it was a big deal to have an account and I didn’t start purging those accounts until a few years ago…
One anecdotal chime in: I dropped the Zuck for a year and gradually realised that my city runs all its cultural events through Facebook - unless you know or someone invites you, that was pretty much it.
I think I did miss out on meeting new people or seeing old friends by chance, simply because I didn’t know to turn up somewhere for a gig or whatever - and the old addage has some truth imo; often you just need to be in the right place at the right time for things to happen.
I think this is more common than some people realize. I haven’t used FB for well over a decade, but I know that despite people claiming that it’s dead amongst millenials and the younger generation, a ton of people still occasionally use it to stay in touch with some people and a ton of clubs, towns, businesses, etc still use it as the main hub for communication and FB marketplace is huge in some regions. Hell buying a used motorcycle was a little tricky without it, but luckily Craigslist is still going strong where I am.
I personally don’t care, but it would be foolish for me to say that I’m not missing local events and news by not using FB.
I’ve experienced the same thing. Facebook Marketplace has also largely displaced Craigslist in my area. Though on the whole I’m still glad I deleted my Facebook account.
Many of my friends organize events and have group conversations on Facebook, and I miss out on a fair bit of it. I still have an account, I just don’t use it except to check once a week or so if there’s something happening. I hate it.
I personally don’t have any except for a LinkedIn and I never feel like I’m missing out. People don’t care, I never ask to follow people. If I care, I’ll get their phone number.
Socially it sucked until my friends figured out how to organize things the way we did in the 90s and before again. Otherwise my mental health improved immensely. It was great not having to see all these people I cared about treat all these other people I cared about so horribly in such concrete and evident ways.
Yeah. You are often left out of group activities, your friends don’t chat with you as often (not talking about close friends, but more about those buddies you go out with once in a while), you’re left out of local communities (there were very few people from my country on Reddit, it’s even less on Lemmy).
Looking for work would be tougher. Even when I finally retire I will keep my linkedin just for folks that need a reference or such. Myabe 5 years down the line could dump it.
I refuse use Facebook and WhatsApp, and yet >95% of this country’s population rely on those things.
It means that practically all of my potential social circle excludes me. Most people don’t care about reasons to not use those things - “after all, everyone is there and I have nothing to hide.”
Most people hardly even know that their phones can send plain sms messages for free, to say nothing of email. If asked to do so, most honestly don’t know how!
Refusing to use Zuckware is costing me a lot of social opportunities.
As a teenager or young adult, maybe. But as you grow older less so. Adding someone on social media has never really been brought up in my current social circles. Sure the occasional linkedin invite if it’s in a professional setting, but my current group of acquaintances hasn’t really thought about adding each other on every social media platform or exchanged contacts other than phone numbers.
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Don’t think so. I’m pretty happy with my social life and haven’t touched any of that stuff in 10+ years.
As an introvert who never wanted my business to be out in the open with my real name attached, no. Was always told never use your real name online and how many times people these days had themselves bitten for doing the opposite it should be obvious by now. Not really the masses fault but the standard from Facebook years ago.
Not really. In fact, I did a little dumphone detox a few weeks ago and literally nothing changed other than not having access to apps like telegram until I could access my laptop. Oh, and no video calling. I think now that I’m in my late 20s, married, with my little circle of close friends, and work peers I don’t really find a need for social media. Now when I was in high school and witnessed the birth of Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, it was a big deal to have an account and I didn’t start purging those accounts until a few years ago…
One anecdotal chime in: I dropped the Zuck for a year and gradually realised that my city runs all its cultural events through Facebook - unless you know or someone invites you, that was pretty much it.
I think I did miss out on meeting new people or seeing old friends by chance, simply because I didn’t know to turn up somewhere for a gig or whatever - and the old addage has some truth imo; often you just need to be in the right place at the right time for things to happen.
I think this is more common than some people realize. I haven’t used FB for well over a decade, but I know that despite people claiming that it’s dead amongst millenials and the younger generation, a ton of people still occasionally use it to stay in touch with some people and a ton of clubs, towns, businesses, etc still use it as the main hub for communication and FB marketplace is huge in some regions. Hell buying a used motorcycle was a little tricky without it, but luckily Craigslist is still going strong where I am.
I personally don’t care, but it would be foolish for me to say that I’m not missing local events and news by not using FB.
I host some decent sized gatherings for my extended friend group (20-50 people). The invites are all on Facebook.
I’ve experienced the same thing. Facebook Marketplace has also largely displaced Craigslist in my area. Though on the whole I’m still glad I deleted my Facebook account.
no
Many of my friends organize events and have group conversations on Facebook, and I miss out on a fair bit of it. I still have an account, I just don’t use it except to check once a week or so if there’s something happening. I hate it.
I personally don’t have any except for a LinkedIn and I never feel like I’m missing out. People don’t care, I never ask to follow people. If I care, I’ll get their phone number.
But usually, I don’t care.
Socially it sucked until my friends figured out how to organize things the way we did in the 90s and before again. Otherwise my mental health improved immensely. It was great not having to see all these people I cared about treat all these other people I cared about so horribly in such concrete and evident ways.
Yeah. You are often left out of group activities, your friends don’t chat with you as often (not talking about close friends, but more about those buddies you go out with once in a while), you’re left out of local communities (there were very few people from my country on Reddit, it’s even less on Lemmy).
It has huge potential impacts. There are kids who get excluded from social groups for having Android
Looking for work would be tougher. Even when I finally retire I will keep my linkedin just for folks that need a reference or such. Myabe 5 years down the line could dump it.
One example is that some companies will not hire someone with no presence. Not happened to me personally.
The only thing that Social Media has given me I have a hard time living without us FB Marketplace
And that’s just because people have mostly moved to selling stuff there. I miss Craigslist
In my experience, massive impact.
I refuse use Facebook and WhatsApp, and yet >95% of this country’s population rely on those things.
It means that practically all of my potential social circle excludes me. Most people don’t care about reasons to not use those things - “after all, everyone is there and I have nothing to hide.”
Most people hardly even know that their phones can send plain sms messages for free, to say nothing of email. If asked to do so, most honestly don’t know how!
Refusing to use Zuckware is costing me a lot of social opportunities.
As a teenager or young adult, maybe. But as you grow older less so. Adding someone on social media has never really been brought up in my current social circles. Sure the occasional linkedin invite if it’s in a professional setting, but my current group of acquaintances hasn’t really thought about adding each other on every social media platform or exchanged contacts other than phone numbers.