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      never felt like I needed to post my life for the whole world to see

      As he posts a story from his life 🙄

      Dude is so oblivious and arrogant. He barely knows her and is already judging, thankfully smart girl saw the signs and dodged a bullet. It’s rare for greentext to have a happy ending.

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        damn bro, no need to get up in arms about it. Everybody judges everybody all the time, just a reality of life. She’s judging him, he’s judging her, I’m judging you right now, you’re going to be judging me when you read this, and on it goes.

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    loner, but not autistic or ugly so I get invited out pretty often

    Oof. This hurt to read

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      A loner autist amish btard is pretty ugly, definitely on the inside, but his mom assures him he’s not ugly on the outside. Mom is also the only girl who ever put her number in his flip phone, and she knew what she was doing.

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    I know this is likely fake, but I have gotten that reaction from people. Folks really find it strange when you don’t have social media. The times it really sucks is when they think you’re lying and just don’t want to add them.

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      emotionally well adjusted

      No shot anyone who posts “I’m practicing gratitude today” is well adjusted lul

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          You might be right, but I’d still rather kill myself than play these weird games for a relationship. So far I’ve been doing ok without WhatsApp in the EU. If they can only talk to me via WA I’m just not talking to them. But then again, my circles are pretty “techy” so most people are OK with it.

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          “Practicing gratitude” is unhinged 100% of the time, without exception.

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        I AM A NORMAL PERSON AND CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS! I AM A NORMAL PERSON AND CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS! I AM A NORMAL PERSON AND CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS!

        lol

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      This, for real. I’m autistic but I’ve learned to mask it by showing normies what they expect to see and it makes things so much easier. Remember, reception matters more than intention.

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      You don’t need to also fake post what others post. Just have an account, you don’t need to ever post on it and if you do post you can keep it visible to friends only. I haven’t posted anything on Facebook for years, but that account is the only way some friends and relatives can reach me (I moved abroad, so phone is not an option).

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      In fairness, I’ve got a foldable floppy type phone and the number of conversations it starts is unreal. If I wasn’t happily attached (and had more banter than the average housebrick) I’m sure it’d lead to some good chats and encounters.

      As it stands though, it’s just a nice talking point.

      e: plus it’s satisfying as fuck ending a call by closing the phone.

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    I am terminally online and even I don’t want to engage with someone I know IRL through social media. We don’t need to be on discord or Instagram or Reddit to talk 1 on 1. We can just fucking text. Like on the phone. No, I don’t want to download Kik or whatsapp or any other random, sketchy app. We can text through the phone.

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      Fuck texting like a Neanderthal. Use a modern, and secure app to communicate. WhatsApp as a bottom of the barrel thing (99% of society outside of the US is on it, so it’s the de facto standard) , signal or better if you can.

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        Nothing makes me smirk like the rest of the world bragging to Americans that they use Facebook to text. Yeah guys, you nailed it. Big win. We’re over here using standard protocols like rubes. I’m sure you get all kinds of security from that free app from Mr Zuckerberg. lol

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          I’m all for discrediting Facebook services for better alternatives, but Whatsapp employs End to End encryption by default, while SMS is readable from your ISP and anyone intercepting your conversation.

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              Facebook messenger has never claimed to be e2e encrypted

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                “Facebook Messenger offers end-to-end encryption, meaning chats between two users will be visible only on users’ phones and aren’t readable by Facebook or any government entity that makes a legal request to the company. But the option is available only to people using the Messenger app on mobile devices, and messages are encrypted only after users select the option to mark chats as “secret.””

                From their linked article.

                It’s insane to only have E2EE as an opt in feature.

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                  I guess it’s because they added it later so they can claim to have it while still being able to datamine the average user. Not that insane given that it’s Facebook. I’d say what’s insane is that’s the same as what Telegram does and some people think that’s secure!

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                  The comment I replied to wasn’t

                  Fbook Messenger, which is also supposed to be E2EE

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              When you send sms, you might as well be sending smoke signals. Not as if sms is secure in any modern sense of the word…

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            Facebook makes money selling data for advertising. They don’t host and maintain what’s app for the good of mankind. every single thing you send on the app is being harvested for data and you know it. It is decrypted at each end and hovered up for sale to the highest bidder.

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              Facebook makes money mainly from advertising, yes, which can be done also on Whatsapp and will be in the future.

              While they can still harvest some data from Whatsapp even if conversations are encrypted, my point was that they have no way to read the content of messages you send.

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              I don’t use Facebook and neither should you. Whatsapp is their only decent product, probably because it was bought when it was already decent.

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          You guys use iMessage, a proprietary app from an other big tech company and use it to dismiss the other half of the population.

          You guys aren’t much better.

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            Ahh yes, iphones, the only devices capable of SMS. /s I guarantee they’re not an iphone owner. They used the word “protocol” and “rubes”. Iphone owners don’t know that non-imessage texting is called SMS.

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        I really don’t care about security of a conversation that goes like:

        “hey wanna hang out on Sunday?”

        “Sure, sounds fun, let’s meet at xxx at yyy pm.”

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          I’d guess the point is rather that women tend to research their potential assailants/murderers/lovers before dates, which is easier to do for people that share their shit on social media.

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            Right, because murderers share their kills on social media? You can sort out some creeps but those can’t hide it if you text with them for a few days either. I don’t think you’d spot most murderers or rapists by looking through their social media.

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              Well her vibe check was right about this guy, he uses 4chan, one of the worst possibly social medias lol

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                Yeah, but id bet money that the dude is an untreated/undiagnosed autist, and they can be really fucken creepy. I know cause I was diagnosed with aspergers at fucking 2, when you have to mask constantly and look for social cues you start to notice the undiagnosed ones.

                If youre curious how I noticed its cause they usually have stronger fixations and are usually a bit off with their body language.

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                  If youre curious how I noticed its cause they usually have stronger fixations and are usually a bit off with their body language.

                  You mean they actually live their life without pretending to be something they are not? Not everyone who doesn’t mask is undiagnosed, the opposite in fact. People get diagnosed, learn masking is bad, and stop doing it gradually.

                  I can’t believe we have people on lemmy trying to encourage masking.

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          No, someone who refuses to use normal modes of communication, is sus.

          I wouldn’t trust someone who refuses to have a cellphone.

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              Outside of the US? Last 15-20 years…

              But it’s starting to fade even in the US, among teenagers.

              The anon failed to meet the expected social norms for environment he was in. The only difference between this and a guy getting turned down for any other reason is the Anon (and it seems many here) are all butthurt over it.

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            I don’t understand why; I know a few women who don’t have Instagram (crazy, right) and this simple fact made them interesting to me.

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    you have xmpp? -no…

    Matrix, Briar, SimpleX? -no

    gotta have Email at least? … … no 🧐

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    Lemmy is it for me. Oh and a discord server with my gaming buddies. The rest of it just feels pretty gross.

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        What better alternatives? As shitty as Discord is for replacing forums, there is no better way to voice chat and stream.

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          Mumble is best for voice cgat. It can suppress noise so hard you can’t hear the vacuum in the background while talking. No idea about alternatives to streaming though.