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This is profound. Thanks for sharing your experience. Nowadays, actual social status is somewhat dependent on one's status on Facebook, i.e. whether they frequ

by rg111 4y ago

This is profound. Thanks for sharing your experience. Nowadays, actual social status is somewhat dependent on one's status on Facebook, i.e. whether they frequently post pictures, what they do in those pictures, whether they go to premium vacation, etc. I heavily dislike this. I also have seen my social status take a visible hit because I abstained from Facebook. This effect is more announced in economically backwards geographies. I don't care because I have a small circle of friends and well-wishers with whom I am content, and I am comfortably employed, and a man with good culture.

jen20 4y ago
This does not seem true among my group of mid-late 30s friends who were there “at the start” - none of them use Facebook, and many haven’t since they started allowing non-academic email addresses to sign up. Perhaps it’s true among older people, but it seems that younger people have abandoned Facebook at an even more prodigious rate. WhatsApp and Instagram are much more problematic at this point.
- ls15 4y ago
  The platform names are interchangeable, but the constant issue seems to be that social status is tied to storing personal data in some company's database
- rg111 4y ago
  > This does not seem true among my group Well not true for my "group" either. Before people in my (erstwhile) small town knew me, like they knew me and I did not knoe them. Due to my achievements and I frequently posted on FB. I enjoyed recognition. I abandoned fb, and that "recognition" has went away.
MonaroVXR 4y ago
And... I literally got a lot of shit going on due this social media, because my family member wanted a perfect picture from the tower. For Instagram.
wmeredith 4y ago
> Nowadays, actual social status is somewhat dependent on one's status on Facebook This heavily depends on one's social circle. None of my friends are on Facebook or care about it.
- rg111 4y ago
  I actually care about a broader circle. My inner, medium, or even outer circle are not on Facebook.

by rg111 4y ago

jen20 4y ago

This does not seem true among my group of mid-late 30s friends who were there “at the start” - none of them use Facebook, and many haven’t since they started allowing non-academic email addresses to sign up. Perhaps it’s true among older people, but it seems that younger people have abandoned Facebook at an even more prodigious rate. WhatsApp and Instagram are much more problematic at this point.

ls15 4y ago
The platform names are interchangeable, but the constant issue seems to be that social status is tied to storing personal data in some company's database
rg111 4y ago
> This does not seem true among my group Well not true for my "group" either. Before people in my (erstwhile) small town knew me, like they knew me and I did not knoe them. Due to my achievements and I frequently posted on FB. I enjoyed recognition. I abandoned fb, and that "recognition" has went away.

MonaroVXR 4y ago

And... I literally got a lot of shit going on due this social media, because my family member wanted a perfect picture from the tower. For Instagram.

wmeredith 4y ago

> Nowadays, actual social status is somewhat dependent on one's status on Facebook This heavily depends on one's social circle. None of my friends are on Facebook or care about it.

rg111 4y ago
I actually care about a broader circle. My inner, medium, or even outer circle are not on Facebook.