I am this guy. Never even made a MySpace back in the day. There is one picture of me on the internet because my job has a "meet the team" page on its website. I don't date though, since I'm aroace. If I have a thought to share, I'll text someone.
This basically means. Except I do have a LinkedIn. Thats it. Never had MySpace or Manga. No Facebook or Twitter. Never used Instagram or vine or tiktok. Its nice
I really should get off Google. On all other accounts, I successfully deleted everything some years ago. Now I just have Mastodon only and spend time here on IMGUR when I want some entertainment
Sadly I am this guy lol. Used to have discord but tossed that too, now it pretty much just imgur, text and emails. And it is actually great. (Never did have a facebook or twitter, most 'social media' thing I ever really went into was imgur. Discord was good for communication but sometime last year, it started getting more like how facebook was in the beginning, so gone it went)
few things... things I honestly am pretty sure am better without, but still miss. Like feeling like you are part of a group, that people 'want' to talk with you, that you are valued(Even if they are faceless ghosts behind the screen...) sadly all those things come along with a hefty share of bullshit drama and always the risk of every thing you do being publicized. (oh and major no for me, the 'we own all you post' mindset where they can sell your data everywhere lol)
I think I last went on an actual non-hookup date somewhere in 2011. I moved to a new place in December. My next-door-neighbour asked me out for coffee and my brain did the whole blue screen of death, no one home, vacancy, error 404.
I'm almost this guy, I had a Myspace, I left a Facebook up so that at least there is something out there, imgur is my only active social media. The 36 year old girl I'm see was very confused she eventually asked & she said it was ok. I only got a Facebook back in the day because my friends needed a easy way to invite me things, now we have a group text.
I have an account on probably every social media platform. Typically it goes that a friend (or recently my daughter) has the social media and suggests I use it. I create an account and play around with the platform for a few days. Get bored and delete the app and never look back.
I only have linkedin under my name. No twiter, no facebook, no myspace, no snap, no nothing. Insaw immediatelly where it was going with social networks. Spying, rediculing, gossiping. I decided then that I'm not going to be part of that
I've never had a social media account using my real name, just sites like this or reddit or various forums with a username not connected to my IRL identity. The thought of IRL acquaintances being able to scrutinize and judge your social media activity at their leisure is repugnant to me. What a horrible way for human beings to relate to one another.
Mine is two fold. Professionally I need to be protected and personally social media let's people feel closer to you than they are, wanna know me? Talk to me
When I was in highschool my gf used the printer scanner in her dad's home office to scan her boobs and then she FAXED it to a hotel I was staying at on family vacation. Man the 90's were a wild time.
Faxes were only pictures. Pictures of words mostly, and lots of faxes had page feeders to reduce size, but flat bed MFD were common, and just faxing from your PC modem.
I have the same name as a pedophile who was sent to prison for life. He was later killed by a seriel kill who was his roommate. When they were looking up his social security number, they got the right name, but my SS. I have a three-legged carbon footprint. Took years to clear up, too.
The problem was that I didn't know I was marked by the state as being dead for almost a year. It was only when a book club membership was cancelled because I was dead that I found out what was going on. To try to fix it, I started with the state department of prisons. They were not helpful. In the end, my state rep helped me clear it up.
Huh, I just realized that I've never posted a photo of myself online. Not once, even though I went online for the first time in the '90s. There has been the odd group photo with me in it that was posted by newspapers to their websites, but they are so poorly indexed and often paywalled that search engines can't find them.
Must be a man then. As a teen girl in the early chatrooms, I lived under the two iron rules of "there are no girls on the internet" and "pics or it didn't happen". Which actively meant you were bullied into showing pictures, or actually turning on your webcam, or bullied into hiding a massive part of your identity
Yeah, you're right. I remember the plague of people starting conversations with "asl". I berated everyone who did this, sometimes successfully so, convincing them to stop this in the future. Even got some Internet friendships out of this that lasted for years. How did you fare? Were you able to deal with the sexism in either of these ways or did you end up leaving these chatrooms behind due to bad experiences?
I was absolutely oblivious and also left to my own devices bc my parents had no idea what the internet even was, so there are some almost nude pictures of my very underage self maybe going around (maybe not, who knows). I was just lucky enough that the few times I took real risks nothing happened - notably once I lied to my parents and got on a bus to meet an internet sweetheart. Lucky 13yo me, he was indeed barely older than me, and not a creep...
Phew, I'm glad nothing terrible happened to you. Thanks for being open about it and sharing your experience! If you don't mind a few more questions: Have you also discussed this with others in RL to warn them (or just as a topic of conversation among peers at the time) - or are you only comfortable talking about this anonymously on the Internet? Do you think you grew as a person, that this was ultimately a valuable learning experience or would you prefer if all of this had never happened?
I have an extreamly common name but if you know my full name i have a few articles that come up that I contributed to, my Pinterest board that I've never bothered to delete and two property transfers. Photos of me doing " political things"
I wish I was, but my last name is very unique, and my first and last combo is completely unique. I was pretty excited to discover that someone recently launched a brand of some sort that is my last name and thus wiped out most of the links to my family that normally popped up.
Googles gone to such shit that people who were googleable at one point might not be anymore. If the sites they were on can’t be monetized, why show them as results?
Oof I can only imagine the teasing you copped in high school with a name like Imaginary :P (It wouldn’t be the worst name one of my students has had lol)
anobviousthrowawayaccountduh
I am this guy. Never even made a MySpace back in the day. There is one picture of me on the internet because my job has a "meet the team" page on its website. I don't date though, since I'm aroace. If I have a thought to share, I'll text someone.
FailedMitosis
Plot twist: He's on 4chan.
Nanntuckett
Unless Imgur and a Facebook account untouched for over a decade are considered social media, then I’m not using it.
CaptainWARLORD
Dude, that table is shaky as hell.
Farreg
I have no Facebook (shutdown), never had whatsapp or snapchat. Literally I just have imgur, Reddit and discord these days.
manhands
Bro still has MMS.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Email?
Anaphriel
Imgur is as close as I get to Social Media. Closed my FB account like 15 years ago, and never bothered with any of the others.
Mack1986
This basically means. Except I do have a LinkedIn. Thats it. Never had MySpace or Manga. No Facebook or Twitter. Never used Instagram or vine or tiktok. Its nice
Im on here. And look at shit on reddit sometimes
vericon151
Way better love story than Twilight.
IchabobJones
A dumb joke dragged on into a whole skit. 11/10
ZySoua
I really should get off Google. On all other accounts, I successfully deleted everything some years ago. Now I just have Mastodon only and spend time here on IMGUR when I want some entertainment
whatsthisbuttondonow1
Is what's app social media I use it to ask what we need from the shops when I forget
DdCno1
It is due to its public nature. Switch to Signal instead for far better privacy.
normalizebeingalone
In my experience this is either a healthy person, or someone who had been banned from using technology by a court order...
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Hahaha that's definitely a situation I didn't think of but happens.
jtwood
I’ll say the same thing I said last time: he is definitely on multiple Discords, but you’ll never figure that out
jorg2cotto
Overplayed trash
ImaginaryFriendRequested
You know you love it
BrickaBrackaFireCracker
Deleted Facebook about 15 years ago and was banned on every other platform, except this one... For now. 😎
ImaginaryFriendRequested
I feel like you just admitted you're a troll, banned...why?
ButtblasterMcAssmaster
I actually have that exact phone, haha. Alcatel OneTouch.
AtmaDarkwolf
Sadly I am this guy lol. Used to have discord but tossed that too, now it pretty much just imgur, text and emails. And it is actually great. (Never did have a facebook or twitter, most 'social media' thing I ever really went into was imgur. Discord was good for communication but sometime last year, it started getting more like how facebook was in the beginning, so gone it went)
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Joining Discord is like asking me to play dungeons and dragons, not even once. Slippery slope, next thing you know you're at a comic con cosplaying
Niagaran
What's sad about that?
AtmaDarkwolf
few things... things I honestly am pretty sure am better without, but still miss. Like feeling like you are part of a group, that people 'want' to talk with you, that you are valued(Even if they are faceless ghosts behind the screen...) sadly all those things come along with a hefty share of bullshit drama and always the risk of every thing you do being publicized. (oh and major no for me, the 'we own all you post' mindset where they can sell your data everywhere lol)
mcglirkymeow
I think I last went on an actual non-hookup date somewhere in 2011. I moved to a new place in December. My next-door-neighbour asked me out for coffee and my brain did the whole blue screen of death, no one home, vacancy, error 404.
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Coffee? I'd love too! With my neighbors??
No. That's what I have literal fences for, stay. . Over there
mcglirkymeow
Yep. Request denied.
woozle
ImaginaryFriendRequested
I would love to go to the movies with that guy
allenvasher3000
I'm almost this guy, I had a Myspace, I left a Facebook up so that at least there is something out there, imgur is my only active social media. The 36 year old girl I'm see was very confused she eventually asked & she said it was ok. I only got a Facebook back in the day because my friends needed a easy way to invite me things, now we have a group text.
notreallyaclevername
I have an account on probably every social media platform. Typically it goes that a friend (or recently my daughter) has the social media and suggests I use it. I create an account and play around with the platform for a few days. Get bored and delete the app and never look back.
mandorsawalll
I only have linkedin under my name. No twiter, no facebook, no myspace, no snap, no nothing. Insaw immediatelly where it was going with social networks. Spying, rediculing, gossiping. I decided then that I'm not going to be part of that
allenvasher3000
Yeah I have an aversion to rage batting, & message from racist relatives.
CarrionKitten
I've never had a social media account using my real name, just sites like this or reddit or various forums with a username not connected to my IRL identity. The thought of IRL acquaintances being able to scrutinize and judge your social media activity at their leisure is repugnant to me. What a horrible way for human beings to relate to one another.
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Mine is two fold. Professionally I need to be protected and personally social media let's people feel closer to you than they are, wanna know me?
Talk to me
InfocalypseRising
Narrator trying to do Don LaFontaine and somehow ended up at "angry Solid Snake"
kadaeux
I was thinking he sounded more like CinemaSins
Gelaticat
Fission Mailed, yo. Fission Mailed.
TheUntiss
"Cornell," Got dammit snake stop mailing my fission!
J3lek
Is that why I'm single? Not enough online presence?
LookAgain
No! It's actually quite appealing!
dashers
Send them your Imgur profile, I'm sure it'll work out fine.
Equalcharlie
I find I'm not meeting lots of girls laying on the couch at 4 am
SirSmurfalot
Generally that is a "not enough real world presence" situation.
whatwhenwherewhyhowwho
I like presents
Imalwaysready
The guy in the video has none, but he’s dating that girl, so that can’t be the reason.
spinbutton3
No. You're smart to not be on social media.
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Oh no love' you're just single because of who you are as a person. ( its a joke)
AnonsAndMinions
TyrannusEquus
That's what I tell my coworkers who ask why I'm single!
hyptosis
CheeseB0t
The joke shield insulates people from emotional damage
fformulaa
You have imgur. I believe in you!
J3lek
That's it. Oh, and S3nd and I'm on 4 discord servers.
WienerBeener
WHOA! You cant say that here! They cant know where we spend our time together... Everyone will find out. *shudders*
TheLuminousBanana
When I was in highschool my gf used the printer scanner in her dad's home office to scan her boobs and then she FAXED it to a hotel I was staying at on family vacation. Man the 90's were a wild time.
bekkayya
sick. no notes. 90s hacker movies would be proud
ElKikko
Put another way, one time in the 90s you rubbed one out to a fax while on a family vacation.
TheLuminousBanana
Hahaha lol. You got me! ; )
kershaw
Man, that's glorious.
TheLuminousBanana
Her boobs were indeed glorious ; )
MarkedZero
Man I don't even know u can fax a picture in the 90's.
DdCno1
You could do this in the 1920s across the Atlantic. That's how papers were able to print photos of events happening across the world on the same day.
TrashCanEnthusiast
Lol what? 80s-90s was the heyday of fax, that's basically the only time anyone could fax a picture
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Efax is a thing now, it's email but .. some how fax? I dunno man I'm not IT
dashers
Faxes were only pictures. Pictures of words mostly, and lots of faxes had page feeders to reduce size, but flat bed MFD were common, and just faxing from your PC modem.
IrrelevantHandle
Thats why they looked so shit once they'd gone through the fax a few times, they were just pictures of pictures of pictures.
UncleRat
I have the same name as a pedophile who was sent to prison for life. He was later killed by a seriel kill who was his roommate. When they were looking up his social security number, they got the right name, but my SS. I have a three-legged carbon footprint. Took years to clear up, too.
LookAgain
*removes glasses to read that a second time*
LookAgain
Thankfully I can't relate there, but I'm sorry you had to go through the horrors of it all.
alsoAzrael
Who do you even call to fix that?
UncleRat
The problem was that I didn't know I was marked by the state as being dead for almost a year. It was only when a book club membership was cancelled because I was dead that I found out what was going on. To try to fix it, I started with the state department of prisons. They were not helpful. In the end, my state rep helped me clear it up.
Feralkyn
That's absolutely mad. But what on earth does "I have a three-legged carbon footprint" mean?
spartanatreyu
He puts his carbon footprint on three legs at a time.
AbolishNuance
I think they have a huge dick and a huger flatulence problem.
azazyel
I was not happy when I had to go on Linkedin to find a job. First time in my life I posted a picture of myself online
DdCno1
Huh, I just realized that I've never posted a photo of myself online. Not once, even though I went online for the first time in the '90s. There has been the odd group photo with me in it that was posted by newspapers to their websites, but they are so poorly indexed and often paywalled that search engines can't find them.
kanybal
Must be a man then.
As a teen girl in the early chatrooms, I lived under the two iron rules of "there are no girls on the internet" and "pics or it didn't happen". Which actively meant you were bullied into showing pictures, or actually turning on your webcam, or bullied into hiding a massive part of your identity
DdCno1
Yeah, you're right. I remember the plague of people starting conversations with "asl". I berated everyone who did this, sometimes successfully so, convincing them to stop this in the future. Even got some Internet friendships out of this that lasted for years. How did you fare? Were you able to deal with the sexism in either of these ways or did you end up leaving these chatrooms behind due to bad experiences?
kanybal
I was absolutely oblivious and also left to my own devices bc my parents had no idea what the internet even was, so there are some almost nude pictures of my very underage self maybe going around (maybe not, who knows). I was just lucky enough that the few times I took real risks nothing happened - notably once I lied to my parents and got on a bus to meet an internet sweetheart. Lucky 13yo me, he was indeed barely older than me, and not a creep...
DdCno1
Phew, I'm glad nothing terrible happened to you. Thanks for being open about it and sharing your experience! If you don't mind a few more questions: Have you also discussed this with others in RL to warn them (or just as a topic of conversation among peers at the time) - or are you only comfortable talking about this anonymously on the Internet? Do you think you grew as a person, that this was ultimately a valuable learning experience or would you prefer if all of this had never happened?
mksu
No digital footprint is certainly a nice goal to have.
icouldnotthinkofagoodusername
I'm crazy proud of this for myself. 😁
Emjayen
I've been on the 'internet' since the BBS days and have not once entered my real last name anywhere (except e.g, online banking and whatnot)
ImaginaryFriendRequested
We all know emjayen is your real name you're just ashamed to admit it
ImaginaryFriendRequested
I have an extreamly common name but if you know my full name i have a few articles that come up that I contributed to, my Pinterest board that I've never bothered to delete and two property transfers. Photos of me doing " political things"
JaceTiger
I haven't updated my Facebook in years. The only reason I still have it is because I use messenger to talk to certain people.
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Cell phone in my phone contacts and email only. I do have chat on my imgur that I use sometimes
captainenhancement
Some might say - not often enough, but I couldn't possibly comment haha
J3lek
I am unGoogleable. That's like a superpower in 2026.
LookAgain
For educational purposes only of course, you could look into Google Dorking & erase what you can from there.
ImaginaryFriendRequested
I used Redacted many years ago when it was free.
mksu
I wish I was, but my last name is very unique, and my first and last combo is completely unique. I was pretty excited to discover that someone recently launched a brand of some sort that is my last name and thus wiped out most of the links to my family that normally popped up.
Toqom
Ya, super jealous of the John Smiths of the world
mukenukem
I am too. And I was anonymus until I joined a band. Fuck asocial media.
derpderpderp182
I google you all the time. Just the other day I googled myself in Liz’s office.
BlueRonfar
Googles gone to such shit that people who were googleable at one point might not be anymore. If the sites they were on can’t be monetized, why show them as results?
LiloPleo
Same, the very little social media I’m on doesn’t have my real name.
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Fun fact, this is my legal name. What you think someone on the internet would lie,? Don't be ridiculous
LiloPleo
Oof I can only imagine the teasing you copped in high school with a name like Imaginary :P
(It wouldn’t be the worst name one of my students has had lol)
ImaginaryFriendRequested
Gimme some of the funny ones