Comments by "Charles M." (@charlesm.2604) on "penguinz0"
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I remember back in the early days of social medias we had a "personal blog" mix of Tumblr and Facebook in France called SkyBlog. My school immediately saw the potential and they used student skies (tweets) history to catch if they were lying. Lying about calling sick but going to a party, lying about not doing homework because no time but sharing MMO screenshots, etc...
That's how I learned to never use socials. And decades later I'm still just using YouTube and Discord.
Another thing I find crazy is at the beginning we made it a point to dissociate our real life identity with our online avatars. We had (cringe) usernames, cars/anime/movie profile pictures and always tried our best to keep our private life private. You wouldn't share your age, your job, your vague location, your romantic situation, etc.
But over time, as new social medias launched, it became apparent that they were built with the intent of burying this line, more and more each time.
Your socials became an extension of your identity. Who do you follow ? What restaurant do you eat at ? What team do you support ? What political opinions do you share ? How do you spend your free time ?
We share pictures and clips of ourselves in our most vulnerable true state, and involve our entourage in this scheme as well.
The craziest part is that most social medias are operated by the same parent companies, so the intent was real.
But, ay, people can choose to sell out if they want that's not really my problem.
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