Some of the excuses? To keep in touch with family and friends is the biggest excuse. As if there was no other way to do that before. I've heard stuff like, there is nothing else to use, nothing else is popular enough, I have to know my enemy, I don't care, I'm going to get rid of it any day now, I need it for school/work, blah blah blah.
Those are all very faggy excuses.
Agreed. I've heard them all many times. There are probably better excuses that I heard that I'm just not thinking of. But I just don't care about fb and twitter users enough to think that hard about it.
A few years when I was still occasionally on facebook [only from one particular computer in my office so that that was all the data facebook got to mine] I had managed to track down some of my friends from the old days.
one of my best friends from decades ago found me somehow. Neither of us were using the same names as we had back then [fake punk names and all that back in the day, and now fake internet names we use instead...] and it was neat catching up. Then he revealed he had been diagnosed schizophrenic. And then he picked a weird argument about how awesome and cool antifa is and how he's totally an antifa. That was gratefully the last straw. Well, that and facebook suspending me for saying "tranny" in some post from almost a year earlier. I never went back, and I never really missed it.
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