Is having no social media effay?

do people think you're weird if you dont have an instagram or snapchat? will i be able to get effay bitches with no social media?
just questions

It depends if you do it to be smart or if you just do it to act like you are better than everyone else

probably not either. i just feel addicted, i open the apps out of reflex. it makes me feel depressed and anxious too.

I feel the same way, it makes me feel gross if I use it for too long. I loathe social media and the complete coma it puts me in. I've been trying hard to fill my time with other things like reading articles or actual books, but it's so hard to pull completely out of.

No people will think you are really weird. Like a retard or similar. Thats the reaction i get atleast when people find out i have no social media

so people treat you as an outcast?

You can ascend from the cesspit of social media
However, it means a lot of work to receive the same endorphins from socialising online but IRL instead
You can channel this sudden huge new surge of energy and reassess your principles, what's important to you, who your real friends are etc

Here's a challenge to see if you like it. Put your phone away for 2 weeks, don't reply to anyone or log onto social media. Write a letter to your 5 closest friends or family. See if you like the change to your lifestyle, and the response from them - I guarantee 9/10 gen Z or millenials will never have experienced getting a letter from a friend outside of the odd christmas or birthday card.

You're talking to the wrong kind of people. 15 years ago and 0% of the population had a social media. I stopped using mine 2 years ago and it's been the most freeing thing I've experienced in a while, it really does mess up your priorities, give you jealousy, cause you to compete over stupid unimportant things, cause anxiety, and it's pretty dumb to have a permanent record of your past painted across the public arena forever

Use social media as a slightly more detailed telephone to meet up with mates. Never ask a girl out online, never use a generic facebook happy birthday, never follow a useless page, don't worry or carefully curate likes.

It will be hard for a lot of anons, because a lot of modern girls judge a guy's worth by his social media likes. But this just shows how worthless and cretinous a lot of modern girls are in the first place.

no, it's not 'effay'
don't be addicted to it

I fucking hate social media, especially instagram and snapchat. I only have facebook, and only because i need to have it. Not that i use it much.

I have several social medias, instagram, facebook, twitter and snapchat. None of them are tired to me as a person, I only use them to keep track of different things, see cool stuff so i can like it and view it later, and talk to people I meet online. Don't know if I am weird or not. I have a bad habit of checking them alot but not because it is social media and I want to see the next hip thing, but rather because I am waiting for my online(only) friends to message back.

How do I quit social media?

Sounds like an addict saying he controls his drug use.

I just have no one else to talk to, I only keep snapchat to talk to one person, I only keep instagram to talk to another person, I find twitter generally useful and I keep facebook to talk to another person. I have a reddit but all I do is save posts about topics I find useful in terms of instructions and guides.

I would like to quit as well (Facebook), but I don't know how I could do it without becoming a hermit. Most of my friends are from some other place and 97% of my communication with the local ones is online.
I also don't go out much and it's not easy to me to go around making new friends

I deleted all of mine a few years ago because my ex was making me crazy. Also I couldn’t stand reading the shit some people posted. Definitely did wonders for my state of mind. It was pretty amazing how much free time I had. Only problem is everyone looks at you like a serial killer when you say you don’t have any social media. Also I definitely lost touch with a couple college friends after we graduated where I believe we’d probably be closer if I did have social media. But overall I’m happy not having it. It’s dumb. Anybody worth keeping in touch with you can pick up the phone for

I told an interviewer for an internship I had no social media and she was damn near speechless, didnt get the internship though

facebook is nice to stay in touch with people so I pretty much only use the messenger
no other social media and quite happy desu

by not using it

seriously?

Same. I log on to Facebook once a day to carry on a conversation with one friend who can't be arsed to leave it. Everyone else I talk to over long emails or the occasional skype.

I used to have a social media job and having to be connected 24/7 like that made me go into a hardcore spiral of depression. It's just not a good thing for some people.

I think it shows that you are making educated decisions about how you want to spend your time. It's literally a billion dollar enterprise trying to get you to become as addicted as possible to their stupid app while providing very little value to you.

Only way to win is not to play

>tfw addicted to Veeky Forums instead of social media

Veeky Forums is still social media.
Yes people will think it's wierd that you don't have "social media"
It doesn't matter what they think, social media ruins you. Don't use it ever.

You need Snapchat for quality pussy in 2018. Girls don't bother with somebody they can't annoy with retarded selfies 24/7

Plus nobody texts nudes any more, we're not cavemen

idk user, i deleted all my social media stuff a long time ago. felt like i was just embarrassing myself for publicly in front of all the people i know and it stesses me out

same here
news feed is garbage, and i havent checked my profile/uploaded a picture in a decade
i do use the local community pages for putting shit up for sale though on occasion

I don’t have any social media accounts because I’m ugly and would literally have 0 followers

I'm pretty sure I've lost interest of a couple of girls as soon as they got tired of me not having any social media whatsoever. Telegram and skype is literally all what I have, and I only use them from my laptop since I have a dumphone and just can't use smartphones, they piss me off. I guess it's another sort of addiction. But hey, I'd rather bee myself than do things I don't like.
This user is probably right. Otherwise, finding a girl who will understand and actually call you or send SMS when you're not together is going to take a couple of eternities.

I deleted my facebook 3 years ago. Feels good.
I don't care about anyone on it anyway. My real friends still call and text me.

I do have snapchat though for sick nudes.

I'm not acting. The vast majority of things I saw posted on facebook in 2016 were fake news articles and retarded political opinions from people with a high school diploma. You really do have to be dumb to enjoy a place that gives the average idiot a platform to share their idiotic views. All the while your information is being farmed and sold, so no thanks.

This. Had to make an account for job. Haven't posted anything in like 2 years. Only good use from it is that I can contact friends from my home country (calling is just too expensive).

Only if you are handsome (you are likely not).

I don't keep any social media apps on my phone. The only social media I have left is facebook, but I try to log in only once a month or so. I would deactivate it, but my friends are so spread out that it's the only way to stay in contact. It's also an easy way to stay updated on bands' touring schedules. (If anyone has a better way to do this, I might actually deactivate)

I haven't made an actual post for years and basically just use it to send the occasional "Hey I'm in your town, what's good?" message. But I could reactivate my account at any time to do that.

It's one of those things, like TV, that you only miss at first. You feel like you're missing out on something. If you abstain long enough and then go back you'll actually feel repulsed by the crap you see.

Not op but I love how faggy everyone sounds on this board lmao. Very feminine

>they talked about male attractiveness
>fags!
Ugly newfag.

THIS

I don't have ANY soc media, and I feel like job interviewers look at it as a downfall. I guess it makes you look like an unsocial outcast. But obv it also depends on the job. I think they just want to look at your FB to see what kind of person you are.

It has nothing to do with what you were saying but everything to do with the cunty, womanly way you presented it. Talk shit post pics btw, want a good laugh

People I tell usually just think it's because I think I'm too cool. I just never really got into it, I always thought it was a fad. Between Myspace, Friendster, then facebook I never thought any of the platforms would last past the first couple of years and it would just be an annoyance to keep up with.

I kind of wish I had a facebook, since I lost touch with all my college friends. But also fuck having it be just a way for people to keep track of me.

if ur cool and look good, who cares
i only use the gram to follow tattooists and some lowkey fashion tings


>if you just do it to act like you are better than everyone else

unironically nothing wrong with this

social media is passe anyway

anyone else never had a need for any of these things cause theres Veeky Forums?

i cant share memes with people i know irl cause our sensibilities when it comes to humor are so different and i cringe when i see what they post on fb

I'm 25 and not on Instagram or Snapchat.

I don't know if I'm just way too old to appreciate/understand these post-millennial things or it's cause I've been through it all some 10-5 years ago so I'm done with that or maybe it's both.

But other people will never understand that. If I tell them I've experienced all that stuff before them and I'm not interested anymore they say that's an "elitist attitude" on my side.

TUrn off your notifications fampai. T worked for me. Youll start enjoying time outside or any other activity even more.

This wasn't me. Stop projecting.

Recently I find it's more effective when having that conversation to be a bit more positive and downplay it, say "it's not a big deal, I find I'm happier without it, wasn't spending much time on it anyway", etc. When you start being negative about it or making criticisms people don't vibe with, it just makes you unrelatable.

Most people I know tend to respond with "yeah I barely check facebook nowadays anyway" or something similar, so as long as you keep it on that level most people will relate.

I don't think it's a generational thing. My friends and coworkers have always been more into new social media trends than me, regardless of whether they're younger or much older.

I've become too self-aware for social media.

if you are getting on social media to chat w your buds its fine. its when you scroll down a feed for 30 mins that is bad.

reasons why i don't have snapchat or instag

>don't like being visible on the internet
>uncomfortable with my face being everywhere and 10 years spent on Veeky Forums made me anxious and scared of becoming a meme if i post something dumb
>don't like seeing irl people post ancient memes they've discovered just now
>people i know aren't funny or maybe i just can't stand non-Veeky Forums humor these days
>don't want my boss to search for my online activities
>scared people will somehow discover one of my online identities or i may accidentally post some non-politically correct stuff there instead on Veeky Forums

LinkedIn is the only thing i need

never really saw the point of social media, never had fb/ig/twitter
did tumbler for half a year for fa inspo but idk
it's like computed
emotions
?

i blame it on the model broad with the hollywood smile

It's probably a mixture of both, which only shows the dark underbelly of our society. Just have one of the instant messaging apps and mention those, people think of them as actual social media, but they're far less cancerous

"projecting" is a meme

brb kms

Is Veeky Forums sm too?

You say that like people perceiving one or the other is the same as it being one or the other.