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    “N/A” is the correct answer unless your account happens to be under your real name. “Fuck you, try and find it” is what you should be thinking.

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      I was so proud when I read about teenagers who have a named social account and their “secondary” real account, because their schools required access to track them.

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    I recently attempted to apply for a job and they wanted a link to my LinkedIn page. Fair enough, but then they also had another spot for “Website” that was mandatory to fill in, and it would not allow me to continue with the application until I had a legit website in there, and it wouldn’t accept the same link as my LinkedIn page that I’d already used in the space above, so I just gave up. Fuckers.

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    Looking forward to the day I’m unemployable for not having those accounts instead of just for being really easy to find out I’m a communist

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      Either you:

      • panic and stop the application because you’re a literal child
      • you stop the application like an an adult because because of the red flag this is
      • you write in “no” or “I don’t use them” like an adult
      • or you provide your information like a child because you’re incapable of even the slimmest act of defiance.
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    put “logout” in these forms and watch them logout from their account

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        A decade ago I would’ve agreed. Now I’m not too sure there’s enough difference to be significant.

        I mean the second part of your comment. Obviously I agree with not having an IG lol

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        These are evil companies, but I am curious what metric you’re using to say one is worse than the other when their objectives and methods are similar.

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      I lived in a “purple” city and constantly dealt with illegal application requests.

      Its only illegal if companies actually get punished. But nah, not when you have a man in the white house who can touch little girls and gargle presidential balls and nothing happens.

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        Let’s be very clear: only one of those two sexual acts is illegal. The other one is just hilarious proof that we live in the most stupid timeline.

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          Ah thanks for clarifying. I noticed I did write it that way implying the throating a president is against the law. My mistake. Knob jobs on politicians when done consensually is alright in my book.

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        This is the type of thing you get 40$ randomly from by signing up for the class action

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          Someone use ai for good so we can auto apply to all class actions

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    I love (read: hate) the ones that have a lengthy survey, full of questions and repeats to gauge your priorities by forcing you to choose one thing over another. Ive gotten such gems as, “Would you rather: 1) ensure that customers leave satisfied and happy; or 2) have a good work-life balance?”

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      Or under the age of 25. Nobody is voluntarily signing up for Instagram in the modern era. Hell, even TikTok is getting past its prime.

      They might as well be demanding my Spotify Playlist.

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            See, THIS is what modern technology was supposed to bring.

            It’s so hard to organise a hangout with friends. Nobody knows when they’re available because they don’t have a proper calendar. Everyone just lives their life one day at a time, having no clue if they’ll be free next Tuesday for a pint or two. It’s so annoying.

            The moment you start using a semi-public calendar, things become so much easier. People don’t need to see your events, just free/busy blocks. And when you want to organise something for a dozen people, that level of knowledge, combined with some AI (ain’t nobody got time to find a free time slot that’s good for everyone!), sorts these things out so quickly.

            Sure, some 30% still won’t turn up but at least it’s not an endless “X can’t make it next Tuesday, next Thursday would be good except Y and Z are out of town, etc etc”. I have your emails, I have your availability calendars, let’s make it happen. Boom. Pub time scheduled in 5 minutes.

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              Move to Germany lol, everybody has a calendar. Downside is that you have to schedule meetups long in advance because everybody (at least adults) plan like at least a week, some like a month, ahead and we aren’t very flexible

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                True, I was thinking one step further with AI negotiating with your friends’ AI to find the right spot, with minimal prompting to the users, kinda like the automated call screening systems you have on modern phones.

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                  Yeah, that’s the eventual industry goal with “agentic AI”. Still, absurd waste of power, water, and arable land in the end; especially since the big wigs aren’t even really doing much that’s innovative to reduce the draw to any of those. Hell, they’ll build a data center in one of the world’s hottest deserts on faith they can tap an aquifer. Wild really.

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            Then, an idea struck: He sent the girl a calendar invite titled “Hook up?” for the following Friday night at 11:30 p.m.

            That’s brilliant.

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          If you’re under 16 or over 40[pedo].

          Discord might be the spot where all the cool kids hang out. Idk anymore, tbh.

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            There are plenty of 40+ non-pedo communities on Discord. You’ve got music production gear and synth communities like Dirtywave, Polyend, and Deluge, TTRPGs, software devs in general, and much more. Discord is also good for LFG, which is indispensable for any middle aged gamer who is too busy to have a regular gaming schedule and gaming crew.

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              Are you sure? This guy seems pretty sure everybody that uses the current most popular western online community building chat platform is a sex offender if they’re over an arbitrary age. Surely they must be right!

              I’m on the Discord community for my metropolitan city along with many thousands of people from all walks of life and all sorts of ages, I need to head over there and let them know that apparently they’re probably all sex offenders!

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              ? I think OP was saying being on Roblox over the age of 40 was the pedo thing, not Discord.

              I could be mistaken though.

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                That’s what I gathered too! I think the downvoting folks are taking the comment in a vacuum, not considering what they’re replying to.

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        As someone under 25, this is bullshit. I’m the only person my age I know that doesn’t use Instagram

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        Yeah, that sounds insane. Everyone knows those platforms are selling your data. I don’t think most young people are that stupid.

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        They might as well be demanding my Spotify Playlist.

        Need to clean up majorly before submitting. Not sure if I should be more worried about certain lyrics or extreme noise and/or extreme weirdness.

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        Or under the age of 25. Nobody is voluntarily signing up for Instagram in the modern era.

        Ok this will make me sound 8,000 years old, but what social network are the kids these days using? TikTok exists, but that isn’t really a personal blogging site like Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, etc. What is the equivalent for Facebook for present day high school and college students? Is everyone just on discord?

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          I don’t think that people do that very much any more, since the medium has changed.

          People don’t really do things like make blog posts as much as they used to.

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          I think large group chats. Benefits of larger audience posting without being completely public-facing.

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          Nobody does personal blogging. Well, except a few specific primates doing so on Xitter. And I’ve also seen some people with at least half a brain getting a domain and writing blogs there in hopes someone clicks on their link.

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            You’re reading blog to literally. Think how people traditionally use Facebook/Myspace, posting regular updates, photos from their life, etc, intended primarily for friends and family to see. What’s the equivalent of that for kids today?

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              None. It is no longer “cool” to post your entire life onto the internet. Source: I am a kid.

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              I mean, outside of posting a few pics of college events, I don’t think most of my friends post pictures to Instagram. Hell, some of them like me don’t even have Instagram/major social media anymore.

              Before I left Insta, I didn’t even bother to follow friends/irl people I know because I’d rather talk to them in person that shit’s dumb, I really only looked at memes, silly reels/vids, and fanart of stuff. Like 90% of Gen Z is only on social media for content and lols, not to update each other on their lives

              I talk to my friends in person. We share pictures of shit we do in life to each other in group chats, but 95% of what we do was done as a group anyway. We don’t really feel the need to let randos/online friends know every thing we’re doing all the time.

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        Yall are making playlists? I just add all songs to the liked and just hit skip until I find songs I’m in the mood for.

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          You have no idea how many people still use dial-up internet. shrug

          It’s still pigeonholed to a generational cohort.