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[–] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 140 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I am totally on the bottom right group.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 60 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My people

Our numbers are uncountable

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm in the void. I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm sad.

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[–] TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 83 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

A distinct lack of "drugs/degeneracy" category

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 44 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

I think that's a subset of "disappeared". If you followed up on the people who disappeared, it's a coin flip as to whether they just hate people or have fallen on hard times.

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah I feel severely underrepresented

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Do some drugs, you’ll feel better.

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 9 points 4 weeks ago

Drugs / Degeneracy can fall into all 4 of these categories?

You think that workaholic doesn't need a little help? That trainer, a boost? While the e family takes some to forget how stressful it is to works multiple full-time jobs.

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'm proudly in the "obsessed with work" category (organizing working class unions)

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[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 37 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Cant disappear from social media if you really weren't there to begin with.

Though i fall in the bottom left corner, always training, though not for something. Training just to train more.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Proud member of the bottom right. Oddly, it has made me a big topic of conversation among my friends, and I don’t get that at all.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (7 children)

How do you know this if you've disappeared? There are people like this in my life that no one has heard from in 20 years. Now that's hardcore.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

Meh, I’m not hardcore, I just don’t have social media and I don’t do weddings, birthdays, or anything involving children, so I pretty much just meet up with them at shows these days.

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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 33 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

You know, for about a decade, everyone was pushed to share everything they did on social media. It was a mistake. It was a mistake on the scale of cigarettes and smoking inside and in airplanes and in hospitals and in schools. No one thought it was a stupid idea, and a lot of people pushed it as the only way to get jobs and show you're a clever chimp that can internet so hard because interneting hard was the cool new thing.

Lower right is the hangover from that. Anyone I didn't find or didn't find me between 2008 and 2018 wasn't ever worth connecting with. The people that did find me were nice to hear from once, and we haven't talked ever again, despite being connected, for 10+ years.

My grandparents and their parents, etc. went their whole lives never seeing people again and not knowing what happened to them because they moved one time and they didn't know their new address. Whole movies were about that. Elvis had a song about that. The last episode of the first season of The Real World ended with everyone moving out of the apartment, and once that landline and address no longer went to those people, it was 100% possible that those people would be gone from each others' lives forever.

Y'all, we're not supposed to collect and keep 27,000 casual contacts throughout our lives. It's unnatural. Our brains are not built for it. We're made to have a few dozen up to 100-ish close connections that mean something, including family you don't pick.

Email some old friends you don't text with daily. Send anyone you truly care about an email to say hi. If they respond, then great. If not, don't worry about it. Enjoy high fidelity communications with those who mater to you.

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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 29 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)
[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 31 points 4 weeks ago

Ain't nobody got time for that. I'm too busy working / raising a family / training for a marathon / [comment deleted by user].

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

No, I must disagree. Most of my friends are right in the centre. Many are starting families, but are also working on careers and are well intentioned gym goers who I speak to less and less because life is too busy.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

How the fuck does anyone have the energy for all that?

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[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Here I am going strong in the bottom right!

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I know a guy who is three of these things. Goes to the gym 6 days a week, works in a hospital, starting a business, has a wife and a kid, and he still manages to have time to hang out once or twice a week. Man is as successful as I am not

[–] uin@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

As someone who is some of those things as well, I would love to know what the wife and/or child are doing during all those activities. Because something has to give when you're doing that much.

In my experience, that balance is really hard, and even in the most hospitable, high-quality-of-life places, that balance is not exactly always something that is nurtured and valued by the systems in place.

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[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

40s is the same, but one of them is dead

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The disappeared ones. I'm one of those.

I'll tell you what we are up to. We are

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yikes! You can't just tell people about the

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[–] GhostFace@lemmy.today 15 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Looking forward to being on the bottom right.

At some when people get too busy to be concerned I'll delete my snap and insta leaving nothing behind. I just don't understand why people feel the need to share everything they're doing constantly or how they get upset if you don't have the energy to react to it all.

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[–] axx@slrpnk.net 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This could be funny if it wasn't such a sad outlook on life.

[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

At least you can pretend to Excel at something

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Triumph@fedia.io 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm happily none of the above.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You're on Lemmy, you're the bottom right corner

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 13 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Obsessed with work is the most obnoxious type of person. It’s a validation seeking behavior that I find intolerable.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The "Why is nobody joining my games on X-Box?" answer guide.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm number four. I mean, I was. Those people have probably all forgotten about me by now.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 weeks ago

It is a peaceful life.

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[–] pH3ra@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 weeks ago

There's also the "still acting like they're 16 years old" and they're as bad if not worse than all the other cathegories

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

Disappeared can have a lot of dif meanings behind it these days.

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[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

you guys still got friends?

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[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Aww man, I got

Constantly working (not into it)

Be gay

Always playing map painting games

And

Declared a terrorist by UK government

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Declared a terrorist by UK government

By the sounds of it, this one is fairly easy to do.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 4 weeks ago

Fifth category: Everybody has forgotten about YOU, and you essentially no longer exist.

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

First I started a family and then I promptly disappeared. I still have little to no social media presence. This really the only place I'm active online.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago

I wish I had arranged my finances better so I could live the dream of being bottom right in a nice very functional house in the forest, with enough self-reliance and supplies to last for months and months without poking my head out of my shell.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Bottom left. "Outrun the darkness" group.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 8 points 4 weeks ago
  • online only, never actually met (gaming, streams)
[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Bottom half. You will never hear about my triumphs. They're mine only.

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

I'm certain I fall into bottom right as the category but I can't tell where in the quadrant I'd put the dot that indicates that I'm actively still on the internet and available to be found but I've dedicated an unreasonable amount of time to avoiding the modern digital culture in lieu of a mock attempt to recapture the late 2000s digital experience. Hit me up in that chatroom or text me on my flip phone, you'll find me by my handle it's the same on every platform.

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