Social media presence as in having accounts in your name with you being visible in the profile picture in mainstream sites (Anything Meta, Twitter, Snapchat, Tiktok…). I don’t consider anynounmous accounts on Lemmy, Reddit, Kbin relevant to the scope of this question.

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The only thing that Social Media has given me I have a hard time living without us FB Marketplace

And that’s just because people have mostly moved to selling stuff there. I miss Craigslist

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I don’t think so. It’s just a little more inconvenient.

For example: I don’t need to see posts from friends to know how their day was. Instead, I just call them or meet them for a coffee and ask about their day.

The old fashioned ways still work well.

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Yeah. You are often left out of group activities, your friends don’t chat with you as often (not talking about close friends, but more about those buddies you go out with once in a while), you’re left out of local communities (there were very few people from my country on Reddit, it’s even less on Lemmy).

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One anecdotal chime in: I dropped the Zuck for a year and gradually realised that my city runs all its cultural events through Facebook - unless you know or someone invites you, that was pretty much it.

I think I did miss out on meeting new people or seeing old friends by chance, simply because I didn’t know to turn up somewhere for a gig or whatever - and the old addage has some truth imo; often you just need to be in the right place at the right time for things to happen.

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I’ve experienced the same thing. Facebook Marketplace has also largely displaced Craigslist in my area. Though on the whole I’m still glad I deleted my Facebook account.

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I host some decent sized gatherings for my extended friend group (20-50 people). The invites are all on Facebook.

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It hasn’t for me.

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Wait. So you’re using social media to tell us how happy you are that you don’t use social media? 🤔

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Did you actually read the OP? OP is talking about specific kinds of social media that exclude Lemmy among others.

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I was just playing. I thought it was funny.

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Aren’t Lemmy, kbin, Reddit etc. just web forums?

Social media is a very specific type of product that (at least partially) tries to base itself on your ‘real’ social life.

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This is anonymous and has no effect on my social life. I have no social media presence under my real name.

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Same for me. Keeping in touch with friends is easy enough with my phone and discord. Hasn’t affected my dating life in anyway or hindered my ability to meet new people in general either. I’m 34 for reference. I had Facebook when I was much younger but haven’t used it in years

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