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May 1, 10:06 AM
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I am officially 4 years today from my withdrawal from Facebook. It was a great decision, honestly.
My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine.

We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by
May 1, 10:18 AM
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I guess roughly 8-9 years by now, I was rarely active anyway, so it was no big deal.
May 1, 10:31 AM
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Does MY WHOLE LIFE count?

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May 1, 10:38 AM
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Just yesterday I uninstalled all those social media apps; hopefully I won't go back to anything like it. But to answer the question, the longest I have not been around those media apps was about a year.
May 1, 11:46 AM
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I've never been on social media. I don't understand the point of it.
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May 1, 12:41 PM
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Excluding youtube and MAL I spent the first 12 years of my life without using social media

UNTIL I downloaded snapchat
May 1, 12:47 PM
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Apr 2018
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It's been about 6 years since I last used Facebook and I'm never going back. I did take some years off Twitter, but I eventually returned since there's porn.
May 1, 12:53 PM
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Given that my last Twitter post was from August 16th 2023, I'll just say since then. Even longer since I last used Instagram and Facebook (February 23, 2020 for Instagram, and about the same time for Facebook), though Instagram's not completely off the table, if I were to return to doing film photography.



I still think about film photography quite often.
May 1, 1:37 PM
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Nostalgia Rules!

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Funny you should mention that, but MAL is actually the website that reinvigorated my love for social media in general. I had a moment there where I wasn't logging in to much social media sites for years and years, this website included. Then I returned back in 2024 and rekindled my love for it. I think it's MAL's old school look and design that keeps me coming back.
May 1, 2:46 PM
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Jul 2018
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I have facebook just to sell stuff. Actually use it to communicate with people been years. 15 years.

If COVID never happen wouldn't have remember this website.
May 2, 2:58 AM

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Jul 2024
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9 years, it's been 9 years since I gave up funding billionaires
May 2, 3:25 AM

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May 2018
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Like forever, never tried fb twitter etc
May 2, 5:31 AM

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I guess...a few months?

I don't use many social media and the ones I have downloaded are only for chatting (Snapchat for my partner) or watching dumb vids from time to time (Instagram)


Cut off Facebook and Twitter a long time ago coz they're shit, and I never even downloaded TikTok because hell no
May 2, 5:06 PM

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Ugh.. but reddit is definitely not anonymous.
May 2, 5:28 PM

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If you also include forums. I had a year I had no internet.
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May 4, 1:58 AM

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Probably a couple weeks to months? Excluding Discord, Youtube, and MAL, I only really use Bluesky every once in a while.
May 4, 2:06 AM

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Two years but those are the best year I have the most gaming time I have no proof to do it again.
May 4, 6:29 AM

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iirc it was about 2 years - back in 2016 when I stopped using Facebook, lasted until I made ig account in 2018
May 4, 8:29 AM

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Social media websites are all government honeypots. Duh. Why would anyone even use that nonsense?
May 4, 11:47 AM

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I deactivated all my social media back in 2012, to "focus on studies" (and to escape a couple of people which I never admit).. and also because I am not a social media person.. it felt fake - unnatural - strange - weird... to me - back then atleast.. And last year, my friend forcefully opened my instagram account on my phone, and, I loved it briefly because I reconnected with school friends, but, was not interested in anything on that app... nothing interested me... IDK if I'm being cruel and heartless :( ...I tried, sincerely tried to be interested, but I can't! ...even when I tried to find poetry/cinema/art pages, it just didn't hold my interest.. I would only ever open the app when my friends messaged me or forwarded some video or post... and then, I changed my phone... I had to re-install the app on my new phone, and just chose not to. I didn't install any social media app since I changed my phone, except for Whatsapp.. it's been 4 months since.

There are some relatives and acquaintances, whose daily activities or even their own dressing/grooming or even their activities like singing or dining or cooking or dancing or being at a get-together or looking at art or looking at blue sky... it could really be anything - from the death of a person to the birth of a baby - and everything in between, seems to revolve around getting that photo or video or that comment/post and uploading and checking their phones, and checking other people's pages or profiles...

...and, that's not how I'd like to live.. at all.. I tried to see the seamlessness in the way we are connected these days, but.. I find that there is no true connection happening anywhere.. maybe there is, but it's not the kind of connection that I can feel fulfilled by... it feels like I only have access to the parts of people or "friends" that they choose to display and that, that sometimes they do only to put it on display... this isn't found on social media apps.. connection.. for me atleast..
May 7, 3:16 PM
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Participating on MAL is more social for me though than just logging into Facebook, scrolling for a couple minutes, and logging out. I don't know, the first 13 years of my life when I didn't have any?
May 10, 10:50 PM

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I deleted my facebook in 2017 and never had any other social media as far as accounts with my real name and face go.
May 10, 11:34 PM

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Never truly stayed off social media, but I have had periods where I delete Instagram from my phone and my usage drops significantly.
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May 11, 5:13 PM

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We all know those social media websites (like Facebook and Reddit) are very, very unsafe. They are absolutely full of government honeypots (Duh). Sites (like MAL) are somewhat "safer" because there are relatively fewer honeypots on here.
May 11, 9:24 PM

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I've had periods where I've deactivated my accounts but that only lasted 3-6 months at a time. I would say the last big break I had was at least 2-3 years ago. I'm addicted to Instagram reels. :)

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