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Then the gravitational pull you have on your friends and family seem to be far greater than what I have. Because besides incredibly few exceptions no one uses
by cisstrd 10y ago
Then the gravitational pull you have on your friends and family seem to be far greater than what I have.
Because besides incredibly few exceptions no one uses another Smartphone App for me, no one wants to have an explanation how IRC works, and E-Mails seem to be good for everything but writing to me.
No one will change their behaviour in any regard just for me.
Maybe because I am not one trying to force something down other people's throats, that's not my style. Maybe you were one of those hardcore social media users people couldn't live without, but for the occasional twice a month conversation online and the 1 like a week, I won't be missed nearly enough.
And this is also the sentiment I have received multiple times from others who have abandoned social media at some point. So I strongly suspect your case is an exception and not the norm, and maybe you are portraying it as a little bit easier and positive than it was or is.
- eddieroger 10y agoI was thinking something along similar lines. It's not like I brought my friends to Facebook in the first place - we all just ended up there. Even worse, so did my parents and their friends. If I had brought them to Facebook in the first place, that'd be one thing, but it is so big it has it's own pull, and honestly I don't think I can compete with that. What's more is I don't want to - if I have to hard sell someone on switching to Slack, for example, I'm now the Slack expert to them forever. The shame of it is that the alternative is miss stuff, and who wants to do that? I would rather deal with a shitty Facebook app on my phone that I can force quit when I'm done with it than feel like a self-exiled citizen of my own community. It's defeatist, but whatever - humans are social creatures for the most part, and I don't want to separate from the herd over something stupid like an app on my phone.
- mr_spothawk 10y agoas I reflect on the sentiment of this message, I am brought to tears. these soldiers won't fight to save their own asses, much less will they risk their own necks. their friend's just wound up here. it's not my fault. it's not my fault. we failed before we tried.
- int_19h 10y agoWe tried. It didn't work.