• RandomStickman@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    When I was a teen I wonder if I’m older if I would still be attracted to teens. I was training a coworker a few years ago, and she’s fresh out of highschool. As soon as we diviated from work conversations I can feel any miniscule amount of attraction I had drain out from my body.

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        9 months ago

        For me it’s social media. I’m old enough that I don’t do social media. But 95% of teenagers’ lives revolve around it. I can’t relate and have no desire to.

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          9 months ago

          I’m old enough that I don’t do social media.

          -@[email protected] on social media Lemmy

          Edit: Or perhaps I am wrong

          Social media is defined as a website or application that enables us to create and share content. A social network is alternatively a website or application that enables us to communicate with one another by posting information, comments, and messages.

          Source

          So I guess Lemmy would be considered social network instead. I didn’t even know there was a difference.

          Edit 2: OK, it seems most people consider Reddit a social media, but others debate it. And Lemmy is fairly similar.
          I guess I made a comment only to bamboozle myself.

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            9 months ago

            Reddit is not social media because it’s not about social interaction, because it’s anonymous. It’s not social if it’s anonymous.

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              9 months ago

              That’s how I think about it. I avoided social media my entire life, even though I was the perfect age all along: xanga/MySpace in middle school, Facebook opened to everyone when I was in high school, Instagram came about when I was traveling/living my adult life in my 20s…but I’m glad I avoided it. Reddit, when I used it, struck me as very different. It’s not about you. It’s about anonymity and news/memes. If that’s social media, all of the internet is social media.

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            9 months ago

            Huge difference between an anonymous social network and one where your real identity is out there.

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          9 months ago

          Alot of adults now too unfortunately. I was at the bar recently with a friend and was chatting with some girls, they asked for our Facebook and their interest was immediately gone when I told them I didn’t have one.

          Fine by me if it’s that much of a no for you I didn’t want to be your fb photographer anyway 😛