“I’m bored anyone wanna hang out?” or “Let’s test if anyone remembers: write down when, where and how we met each other :-)”
Honestly my posts from back then were pretty mild. Some bit cringey but not too bad. I felt more embarassed about the stuff others wrote about me on my “profile wall” afraid that someone from my family sees it if they join facebook.
Edit: added a word.
Deleting all of my social media accounts was one of the best choices I made this year.
this counts as social media…
I don’t really count Lemmy or Mastodon. They feel more like forums to me, but that might be my age showing. I know traditional forums these days have fallen out of popularity.
forums, message boards, reddunit, fuzzbook, instagone… anywhere you interact with multiple ppl is these days technically social media
This is more content-first where facebook/twitter/etc are user-first. I think user-first brings out worse patterns.
Yep I don’t miss fb or twitter at all
Just as you will never cross the same river twice, you, and those around you, are ever changing. You are a completely different person in a completely different world than existed that 17 years ago.
how do you never cross the same river twice when traveling to work takes you across the same bridge twice? 🤔
The metaphor is that the river is always changing. The water is different water, and the water is continuously shaping the earth around and beneath it.
ok, but the water always goes the same way?
Shit’s embarrassing. I used to think I was such a clever person, but came across like a loser and a try-hard. Most of them got all of 2 likes, if any.
If you aren’t cringing at your past at all, then you aren’t growing.
Everybody makes online personae and code switches between them for each platform, whether they’re aware of it or not. Facebook was, and is, all about cringe attention seeking.
A lot of the stuff then was fun. Much more casual and time sensitive since others actually followed it and wrote often. Now it’s more for bigger things and for groups
