Thankfully I deleted my account

"I'm bored anyone wanna hang out?" or "Let's test if anyone remembers: write down when, where and how we met each other :-)"

Honestly my posts from back then were pretty mild. Some bit cringey but not too bad. I felt more embarassed about the stuff others wrote about me on my "profile wall" afraid that someone from my family sees it if they join facebook.

Edit: added a word.

"Let's test if anyone remembers: write down when, where and how we met each other :-)"
Sounds phishy
- This stupid trend (and many more like it) was most likely started by someone phishing for security questions of accounts honestly. But we were oblivious.

Deleting all of my social media accounts was one of the best choices I made this year.

this counts as social media..
- I don’t really count Lemmy or Mastodon. They feel more like forums to me, but that might be my age showing. I know traditional forums these days have fallen out of popularity.
- This is more content-first where facebook/twitter/etc are user-first. I think user-first brings out worse patterns.
- As long as you get away from the social media algorithmic platforms it’s good
- Forums and blogs were not what people mean by "social media." Lemmy is an evolution of forums.
Yep I don't miss fb or twitter at all

Yeah that was while I was in a decade-long battle with alcoholism. I never want to read that garbage I wrote again.

glad you're doing better 💪
- Thanks, me too :)

Just as you will never cross the same river twice, you, and those around you, are ever changing. You are a completely different person in a completely different world than existed that 17 years ago.

how do you never cross the same river twice when traveling to work takes you across the same bridge twice? 🤔
- The metaphor is that the river is always changing. The water is different water, and the water is continuously shaping the earth around and beneath it.

Shit's embarrassing. I used to think I was such a clever person, but came across like a loser and a try-hard. Most of them got all of 2 likes, if any.

If you aren't cringing at your past at all, then you aren't growing.

I'm very thankful for that! 2008 me was pretty insufferable.

mine were 'this is a recession and I can't find a job'.
don't worry ppl that weren't around, there'll be one soon enough

A lot of the stuff then was fun. Much more casual and time sensitive since others actually followed it and wrote often. Now it's more for bigger things and for groups

I still agree with most of what I've ever written online.

So either I was never a stupid asshole, or I'm still a stupid asshole.

I also still agree with most of my old posts, but younger me could absolutely have worked on the delivery. Had no chill.
- Honestly I hate how much I hold back, now. Too many communities fell for the cult of civility and think "here's detailed proof that you're a fucking liar" is worse behavior than "calm down, honey." Sometimes it is right and good to call people names. Punishing that, but not even addressing why someone might do that, is acting as a force multiplier for trolls. You can be an absolute monster in polite words.
  To all moderators, on all platforms, I ask - if you don't stop people from being assholes, but you stop people from calling them assholes, who do you think benefits from that power structure?

Everybody makes online personae and code switches between them for each platform, whether they’re aware of it or not. Facebook was, and is, all about cringe attention seeking.

reminds me of my old quora account, I deleted it recently after not using it for 3 years and man, I was pretty cringe back then. I was going through the ordinary 15 year old communist dude phase and man, I had some shit responses and I am glad I changed. It was such a relief to delete that account, since it kept assaulting my email with stuff about genocide, the left rising up and other unwanted stuff like that.

Jason Scott: "You might not have a Facebook account, but Facebook has a you account."