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Anonymous wrote:I also run road races, sometimes even with girlfriends, and never post self-congratulatory posts about that suds either. There is a clear divide between people who do this social media stuff and people who just. Don’t. No judgement. I just don’t participate.

You know participating here is basically the same thing right?

Ummmm.. this is anonymous. You have no idea who I am or where I live or what my name is.
Not sure if you know what anonymous actually means In Terms of social media. Posting anonymously is literally the opposite of posting on my social media handles.

So what is your motivation for consistently checking this for updates- and you obviously do based on the timing -!and posting on social media? You’d rather talk to / brag to (i do races! With friends!) strangers than friends? Do you really not see how bizarre that is?

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously do not understand the superiority of people who refuse to post on social media. I’m not someone that does every event or every day or even every week, but seriously what is wrong with sharing moments with your family and friends? Isn’t that what life is about? Why do you take pride in avoiding that? I enjoy seeing my friends’ lives. Isn’t that normal?

You aren’t sharing. You are imposing. If someone in your family or a friend asks for an update and you send it to them, as an individual, then that is sharing. Posting on social media is not sharing, it’s like putting a bumper sticker on your car...unless, your friend list is very specifically CLOSE friends and family, which most people’s are not.

How are you imposing if people seeing your posts is entirely voluntary?

Anonymous wrote:I seriously do not understand the superiority of people who refuse to post on social media. I’m not someone that does every event or every day or even every week, but seriously what is wrong with sharing moments with your family and friends? Isn’t that what life is about? Why do you take pride in avoiding that? I enjoy seeing my friends’ lives. Isn’t that normal?

You aren’t sharing. You are imposing. If someone in your family or a friend asks for an update and you send it to them, as an individual, then that is sharing. Posting on social media is not sharing, it’s like putting a bumper sticker on your car...unless, your friend list is very specifically CLOSE friends and family, which most people’s are not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also run road races, sometimes even with girlfriends, and never post self-congratulatory posts about that suds either. There is a clear divide between people who do this social media stuff and people who just. Don’t. No judgement. I just don’t participate.

You know participating here is basically the same thing right?

Ummmm.. this is anonymous. You have no idea who I am or where I live or what my name is.
Not sure if you know what anonymous actually means In Terms of social media. Posting anonymously is literally the opposite of posting on my social media handles.

I seriously do not understand the superiority of people who refuse to post on social media. I’m not someone that does every event or every day or even every week, but seriously what is wrong with sharing moments with your family and friends? Isn’t that what life is about? Why do you take pride in avoiding that? I enjoy seeing my friends’ lives. Isn’t that normal?

Anonymous wrote:I also run road races, sometimes even with girlfriends, and never post self-congratulatory posts about that suds either. There is a clear divide between people who do this social media stuff and people who just. Don’t. No judgement. I just don’t participate.

You know participating here is basically the same thing right?

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Anonymous wrote:Whatsapp is for commies? Really?

You guys are missing out if you don't have that app. It is so easy to communicate with any friend or family who is on whatsapp just using wifi. You don't even need a data plan.

Whatsapp is more popular in Asia - people are part of various small groups and it is more addicting than Facebook. Easy to share to small groups. Good old Americans are behind the times. I still remember when SMS was more popular in 3rd world countries before texting became a thing here. Give it a few years and then whatsapp will be popular here too.

yup, I remember this!

Lots of apps are great but if everyone isn't on there it doesn't really matter how great it is. It's a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

this is different. This is from a time before apps when all phones could text but Americans weren’t using it while Europeans were already paying their parking with texts

I have no idea what point you're trying to make here.

that sometime things catch on in Europe or Asia first and only then come to USA.

So what's app is going to come to the us and it's going to be as ubiquitous as Facebook eventually?

I disagree with the premise that everyone will adopt it, that is very difficult to achieve. And that old people will adopt it as it's basically redundant to text messaging.

And it will never replace Facebook because one can't easily share with a group which is what FB is good for (sharing photos with family)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatsapp is for commies? Really?

You guys are missing out if you don't have that app. It is so easy to communicate with any friend or family who is on whatsapp just using wifi. You don't even need a data plan.

Whatsapp is more popular in Asia - people are part of various small groups and it is more addicting than Facebook. Easy to share to small groups. Good old Americans are behind the times. I still remember when SMS was more popular in 3rd world countries before texting became a thing here. Give it a few years and then whatsapp will be popular here too.

yup, I remember this!

Lots of apps are great but if everyone isn't on there it doesn't really matter how great it is. It's a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

this is different. This is from a time before apps when all phones could text but Americans weren’t using it while Europeans were already paying their parking with texts

I have no idea what point you're trying to make here.

that sometime things catch on in Europe or Asia first and only then come to USA.

I also run road races, sometimes even with girlfriends, and never post self-congratulatory posts about that suds either. There is a clear divide between people who do this social media stuff and people who just. Don’t. No judgement. I just don’t participate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatsapp is for commies? Really?

You guys are missing out if you don't have that app. It is so easy to communicate with any friend or family who is on whatsapp just using wifi. You don't even need a data plan.

Whatsapp is more popular in Asia - people are part of various small groups and it is more addicting than Facebook. Easy to share to small groups. Good old Americans are behind the times. I still remember when SMS was more popular in 3rd world countries before texting became a thing here. Give it a few years and then whatsapp will be popular here too.

yup, I remember this!

Lots of apps are great but if everyone isn't on there it doesn't really matter how great it is. It's a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

this is different. This is from a time before apps when all phones could text but Americans weren’t using it while Europeans were already paying their parking with texts

I have no idea what point you're trying to make here.

I make Blurb books with my digital photos and some pages have like 20 photos of my son eating a bagel. I have another series of him eating pizza. We laugh. If you can make books, those are things kids will have forever. I still look at my childhood family photo albums. And some of the benefit is for the parents to "savor" moments with kids. There is a lot about this in the positive psychogy literature. I really believe that and gratitude are keys to happiness. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/click-here-happiness/201807/what-is-savoring-and-why-is-it-the-key-happiness

This thread makes me laugh because our adoption isn’t finalized yet and we signed a NDA so our daughter is 5 months and we’ve never posted about her. Half my “friends” on Facebook have no idea we’ve had a child since January. Part of me wonders if I should just never post about her. But she’s so darn cute and I need that dopamine hit (just kidding).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatsapp is for commies? Really?

You guys are missing out if you don't have that app. It is so easy to communicate with any friend or family who is on whatsapp just using wifi. You don't even need a data plan.

Whatsapp is more popular in Asia - people are part of various small groups and it is more addicting than Facebook. Easy to share to small groups. Good old Americans are behind the times. I still remember when SMS was more popular in 3rd world countries before texting became a thing here. Give it a few years and then whatsapp will be popular here too.

yup, I remember this!

Lots of apps are great but if everyone isn't on there it doesn't really matter how great it is. It's a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

this is different. This is from a time before apps when all phones could text but Americans weren’t using it while Europeans were already paying their parking with texts

What is to become of all these photos people take? How often do you look at photos from your childhood? Most people, almost never. And even then, you probably have a handful of favorites and that is it.

Your kids are not going to want to sit around and look at the hundreds of pictures you took every year. And surely do not want to physically have all.of.the.pictures.

At the rate people are snapping pictures, by the time kids are 18 there will be thousands upon thousands of pictures of them. A few dozen per year is more then enough to document a childhood and serve as a momento IMO.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatsapp is for commies? Really?

You guys are missing out if you don't have that app. It is so easy to communicate with any friend or family who is on whatsapp just using wifi. You don't even need a data plan.

Whatsapp is more popular in Asia - people are part of various small groups and it is more addicting than Facebook. Easy to share to small groups. Good old Americans are behind the times. I still remember when SMS was more popular in 3rd world countries before texting became a thing here. Give it a few years and then whatsapp will be popular here too.

yup, I remember this!

Lots of apps are great but if everyone isn't on there it doesn't really matter how great it is. It's a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.