I am totally on the bottom right group.
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Me too ! I've cut off all my former high school / college "friends" for various reasons. Deleted all my accounts. I don't exist online under my legal name, and I like it that way.
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A distinct lack of "drugs/degeneracy" category
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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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.
We are not built to drink milk beyond infancy, yet we do. We are not built to cross oceans in a few hours, wake up in one time zone and fall asleep in another, yet we do. We are not built to eat ice cream on a scorching summer afternoon or preserve food for months and experience flavors from far away, yet we do.
The argument that something is "unnatural" has always struck me as incomplete, because humanity's defining trait is that we are not merely shaped by nature, we reshape our relationship with it. We build tools, cultures, institutions, and technologies that allow us to transcend many of the constraints our ancestors lived under.
That does not mean every new capability is wise or healthy. Some inventions enrich our lives; others burden us in ways we only understand decades later. But the fact that something exceeds the limits of our evolutionary past is not, by itself, an argument against it.
Human flourishing has always depended less on the number of people we can reach and more on the depth of the few relationships that truly matter. I miss having many Facebook friends (some I have never physically met) and seeing their life updates every once in a while, because now we all think Facebook is no longer cool.
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Aww man, I got
Constantly working (not into it)
Be gay
Always playing map painting games
And
Declared a terrorist by UK government
Declared a terrorist by UK government
By the sounds of it, this one is fairly easy to do.
Yeah, not to disparage his hard work organising beforehand and 2 years in prison (so far), but ultimately all he did was park really badly. At most he should be getting a few points on his license.
That's what you get for wanking without a license sicko
I'm proudly in the "obsessed with work" category (organizing working class unions)
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Where's
Work
Come home too exhausted to do anything worthwhile
Sleep
Work
I don't think it falls into the first category because I really don't give a shit about my job. I just have no energy.
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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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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
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.
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.
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I'm number four. I mean, I was. Those people have probably all forgotten about me by now.
It is a peaceful life.
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Fifth category: Everybody has forgotten about YOU, and you essentially no longer exist.
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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I've been a combination of all 3 my entire 30's. Was obsessed with work, had kids. Got fat because of having said kids, got back into lifting weights, and I have almost 0 social media presence.
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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
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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Friends?
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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The disappeared ones. I'm one of those.
I'll tell you what we are up to. We are
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.
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you guys still got friends?
When the definition of "friend" is "person you hung out with in HS/College and then only ever associated with via the computer", maybe you don't.
Box 4, in particular, is a really depressing rubric for friendship as it assumes a person vanishes the moment they stop providing new content on Social Media. I've got friends who occupy the first three quadrants simultaneously, but we still keep in touch by SMS and by actually visiting one another on a regular basis. We're 100% logged the fuck off past that.
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Oh man I'm constantly training for something, but also bad at sports lol
Didn't say 'wall full of trophies'.
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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Bottom right
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