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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 13:53:57 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   Me shading my Gen X and Boomer friends.
   I have not logged in for so damn long that #Facebook made me jump hoops to log in. I have to fish my photos from the platform tho, so I can't disconnect it yet lol

   #socialmedia

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 14:13:05 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Shannon Kay

     @shannonkay omg email newsletter to relatives is the BEST THING. I love the idea.
     Yeah I don't like sharing personal info on FB. A lot of my friends OVERSHARE to a painful degree. I really have no energy to deal with their drama and honestly i don't want to inflict my neuroses on them either.

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     Shannon Kay (shannonkay@bookstodon.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 14:13:07 JST Shannon Kay

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     @liztai I've been wary about giving personal details and photos of my kids to Facebook for a while now, but there are edge relatives and in-laws and whatnot that I want to let have updates. I tried posting links to my own photo site a few times. Finally, I'm starting an email mailing list for a family newsletter. I'll email them those personal details like in the 1990s.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 14:14:02 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Dean F.

     @soulexpress I think I quit ... ok I'm Malaysian so the election didn't effect me, but I quit mostly because of too much info about friends lol. Unlike others, I really don't want to know about their lives that much unless you have a face to face lunch/coffee with me ;D

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     Dean F. (soulexpress@musician.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 14:14:04 JST Dean F.

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     @liztai This Gen Xer quit Facebook the day after the election. And the more I hear about Zuckerberg, the gladder I am to have left.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 14:14:30 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Dean F.

     @soulexpress oh yeah and how much they love to share negative content. I couldn't deal with all of that doom

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     Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 14:39:59 JST Raven667

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     @liztai yeah, finally someone who might not think its weird. I'd rather invest time in people who invest time in me, the friend who I meet for coffee, or the one whose kids play with mine, people I actually socialize with, rather than every acquaintance with whom I might have mutual recognition.

     Mastodon is different, it's more like seeing regulars at the local pub and occasionally meeting people by jumping into an overheard conversation in a public space.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 14:46:02 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Raven667

     @raven667 I love it here. It's the only calm social media I know

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 18:24:36 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Noam writes

     @noam I only follow some groups but even then, not really lol

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     Noam writes (noam@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 18:24:39 JST Noam writes

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     @liztai Facebook still has critical mass. Various people I'd have a hard time staying in touch with otherwise, and several groups that are hard to follow without it. So I'm staying for now.