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I find myself never actually using social media. Good friends belong to the same Signal group chats. I have several of these which consists of cliques I have bu

by euix 6y ago

I find myself never actually using social media. Good friends belong to the same Signal group chats. I have several of these which consists of cliques I have built up over the years in school and at work and that's how I stay in touch. For those that are further out of reach there is email and linkedin if I really need to dig someone up from the past.

zelphirkalt 6y ago
You seem to have well informed flexible friends, who are willing to try something "new". I wish I could get a handful of my friends to use something like Signal. Best even something not requiring a phone number. It's stupid that Signal wants a phone number. What has my phone number to do with chatting via Internet? Any advice how to get your friends to switch, when they do not care much about their privacy and have a defeatism attitude with regard to guarding their privacy or simply do not understand, that their actions affect their friends?
- euix 6y ago
  I find good friends often share similar technological viewpoints right down to the basic level. The people I have on signal are pretty much all cut from the same cloth in that regard. I.E. they tend to avoid big internet corps whenever possible and hack their own solutions. For people I consider casual acquaintances or just outside of the "inner circle" so to speak, I just use SMS.
  - baby 6y ago
    Are you saying you have no diversity in your friends? They’re all technical and they all have the same privacy view as you?
- throwgeorge 6y ago
  >You seem to have well informed flexible friends, who are willing to try something "new". you're saying this about someone that claims all of their friends use only one app. the fact that that app is signal does that not make them more flexible or better informed than someone who was born into some religion and decided it was coincidentally the most true.
reedwolf 6y ago
You wrote your comment on social media.
baby 6y ago
This reads like a negligible anecdote

by euix 6y ago

zelphirkalt 6y ago

You seem to have well informed flexible friends, who are willing to try something "new". I wish I could get a handful of my friends to use something like Signal. Best even something not requiring a phone number. It's stupid that Signal wants a phone number. What has my phone number to do with chatting via Internet? Any advice how to get your friends to switch, when they do not care much about their privacy and have a defeatism attitude with regard to guarding their privacy or simply do not understand, that their actions affect their friends?

euix 6y ago
I find good friends often share similar technological viewpoints right down to the basic level. The people I have on signal are pretty much all cut from the same cloth in that regard. I.E. they tend to avoid big internet corps whenever possible and hack their own solutions. For people I consider casual acquaintances or just outside of the "inner circle" so to speak, I just use SMS.
- baby 6y ago
  Are you saying you have no diversity in your friends? They’re all technical and they all have the same privacy view as you?
throwgeorge 6y ago
>You seem to have well informed flexible friends, who are willing to try something "new". you're saying this about someone that claims all of their friends use only one app. the fact that that app is signal does that not make them more flexible or better informed than someone who was born into some religion and decided it was coincidentally the most true.

reedwolf 6y ago

You wrote your comment on social media.

baby 6y ago

This reads like a negligible anecdote