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I’ve treated Lemmy as a fun, silly blog since I made my account. I love how you can freely post anywhere and as much as you like, unlike on Reddit. I’m also a teen who grew up online with unrestricted internet access and does online school, so I’m a bit addicted to being online. I love how much more interactive the comments feel here, despite it being a smaller platform. I’ve had fun reading and interacting with people. But I think I might delete my account and everything, because people analyzing my behavior and accusing me of things has started to get to me. Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender. All I wanted to do was make people feel some fun and giggles. I’m wondering if you’ve ever felt something similar.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Delete your account and create a new one. Problem solved.

But also, two things. First, always be questioning yourself. Those jerks might have a point. But second, jerks are jerks and you shouldn't listen to them or be bothered by them.

If you can balance those two ideas, you'll do really well online, and probably in real life too.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The jerks don't have a point if they say you're fake and pretending you're younger than you really are, as OP mentioned elsewhere. There's no reason to introspect if these are the accusations.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that one falls into point 2.

The nuance is being able to tell which comments to reflect on and which ones to toss. Took me years to figure that out.