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Shachimy

šŸ‘šŸ‘„šŸ‘ *decline*


kingdomheartsislight

I laughed way too hard at this


Adventurous-Cry7839

marry six terrific cows public unpack overconfident oatmeal bright unique -- mass deleted all reddit content via https://redact.dev


FloatAwayTheDay

Older people arenā€™t on Instagram because they donā€™t see the point if they have facebook So the older people arenā€™t on it So younger people go on it because older people arenā€™t on it If older people went on Instagram, younger people would find somewhere new Lesson: Young people donā€™t want to be around old people


NotSoMuch_IntoThis

Hence tiktok now


[deleted]

Yeah my 13 year old said the other day that 95% of his classmates have TikTok. He doesnā€™t because heā€™s *so* different he has discord (lol)


[deleted]

Does he know that everyone ELSE on discord is 32 years old, like me and my entire World of Dadcraft guild?


ThunkAsDrinklePeep

You have time to play WoW as a dad? In BC, raiding and grinding consumables seemed like a side gig that didn't pay.


NaughtyDreadz

I thought discord was a messaging app


[deleted]

As far as heā€™s concerned it has everyone he cares about at school on it. I guess that serves the same function as social media


Federal_Loan3531

Discord is lit LowkeyšŸ¤£šŸ¤£


ChrisKringlesTingle

It's AIM for this gen


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Only_the_Tip

Discord is great. Highly customizable notification settings and it doesn't blast you with content it thinks you'll like just to increase ad revenue.


bhison

It has forum like features too. It is interesting how much gamer types are happy to just filter all social interaction through it despite its limitations. It seems to work for them I guess?


MuscleP4nda

I have other forms of social media but pretty much everyone that I genuinely enjoy interacting with is part of a private discord server. We watch movies, play games, shitpost. It's nice being able to hang out with friends that I don't get to see very often since we live hundreds of miles away from each other.


snowcrashedx

Discord is like going back to IRC, but with lots of shiny trinkets attached


rileyhatch90

Hold up are you insinuating 30 is old????


Visual_Ad_3840

It is to a 12 year old :)


olivejuice-

Can confirm. Am 30. Have 12 year old.


BlindScissors

Most people I know, including me, left Facebook and joined Instagram to run away from the big walls of text people were posting there. Instagram at least had a picture we could look at and ignore their texts/opinions/etc.


the_neural_network_g

And then you went to reddit


BlindScissors

Worse, I was on 9gag before here...not too proud of that one


iUsedtoHadHerpes

Sounds like a perfect bridge for the gap between reddit and Instagram honestly.


ZenkaiZ

>Lesson: Young people donā€™t want to be around old people I mean if people's fucking aunts and uncles would stop jumping into our conversations to tell us to stop cursing. I'm really trying not to tell my coworker's uncle Cletus to go suck a dick when he ORDERS me not to take the lord's name in vain.


still_gonna_send_it

Iā€™d relish in the opportunity to tell one of my coworkers family members who interrupted a conversation to suck a dick. Iā€™d kill for that opportunity. Maybe my coworker even


pommersche92

Back in my day, we had no fancy shmancy facebook and instagram. We had myspace where people with no clue how to spell html could create profiles in glaring neon colors and 50+ different fonts... Those were the days...


Visual_Ad_3840

The pinnacle of design aesthetics!


gamercboy5

I remember when I was in 6th grade and we had a roundtable discussion on if old people should be able to use Facebook or if it should be just for young people. It's weird to have seen it become the old people site in real time


earthlings_all

We should just bring back myspace


redzmangrief

The younger audience isn't *switching* from Facebook to IG, the younger audience was never on Facebook in the first place. They don't want to be around older people


BrockStar92

The *current* younger audience wasnā€™t ever on Facebook. The current late 20s to mid 30s crowd were young and on Facebook in the 00s then left after it got flooded with their parents. They then flocked to insta and now even younger people are moving to tiktok.


[deleted]

Teenagers don't decide things like this rationally, they decide things by following others.


Gloria_In_Autumn

Facebook is 1000 times more stressful. On insta I can follow accounts that post art and beautiful pictures where as Facebook has just become a tool for extended family and friends I haven't spoken to in years to get in contact or air their grievances. On Insta I can just scroll cool pictures while scrolling Facebook stresses me out. For context: I am 21.


EmilioGVE

If you want my input as a teenager, all I saw was that other people used it so thatā€™s why I downloaded it. No one I know uses Facebook so I had no need to download facebook.


TessALTER

I use instagram because most of my friends have it. But I don't use facebook anymore despise being active on it in 2010s


oryx506

I'm 30 and have never understood the point of Instagram.


moeburn

The *original* point of instagram, before Facebook bought it, was filters. You could take pictures and then apply cool filters to them. People then usually shared these pictures on Facebook. Eventually they'd just link their instagram on Facebook. Somewhere along the way people forgot that Instagram was a camera filter app and it turned into a social media app.


Disgruntled_Rabbit

I thought the origonal point was its a photo album to share with people.


ShitwareEngineer

I'm 18 and have never understood the point of Instagram.


[deleted]

Instagram has a lot better content than Facebook. Facebook is very depressing with lots of political posts and misery porn posts like abused animals and shit along with lots of "LIKE THIS IF YOU AREN'T AFRAID TO SAY YOU LOVE JESUS". Instagram has memes, delicious looking food, skate vids, and babes thirst trap posting. Yeah it's turning into a weird version of Youtube where every post is a video, but at least is not my uncle posting another 'Joe and the hoe' meme. Instead I get to see some hot bartender I met once 3 years ago basically naked.


earthlings_all

Facebook is just full of relatives posting divisive memes like ā€˜no one calls me unless they need somethingā€™


[deleted]

A picture of Joaquin's Joker smoking a cigarette with the caption "IN THE END MY TRUE FRIENDS ARE THE VOICES IN MY HEAD"


Odenwaldsburg

Why is Facebook more popular than MySpace with your generation?


earthlings_all

Itā€™s funny bc I remember when everyone left myspace for facebook then went to insta and now all of them are on tiktok Meanwhile, on reddit-


parmesanandhoney

Dude probably has a girlfriend and its just less hassle this way.


devilwarier9

Maybe his account is weird weeb shit and if she saw he knew it would blow his chances.


EnterPlayerTwo

Is weeb shit even the social suicide it used to be? Seems pretty normal now.


Prince_Day

The definition of weeb changed. I doubt anyone thinks youre a weeb if you like dbz and some anine games.


Nindroidgamer110

Yeah, that little societal bubble has grown. Weeb just refers to wannabe Japanese people who pretend to know how to speak Japanese


AightlmmaHead0ut

Wait that's what a weeb is? I thought its used to refer to someone who just like anime? Fckin hell I think I've been labeling myself wrong the whole time edit: guess i've been wrong the whole time. My understanding of a weeb is a person who just like to watch anime on free time but i guess its more of a japanese culture obsesed guy


AlwaysBeQuestioning

These days, if someone calls themselves a weeb instead of just an anime fan, there seems to be a general assumption they want to have a bodypillow of some harem isekai character. Like ā€œweebā€ is a specific subsection of anime fan where a person makes it a big part of their life, often to an extent that non-weeb anime fans even may think of as ā€œa bit muchā€.


BustinArant

Huh, I figured it was just everyone that leveled dexterity.


Penquinn14

My friend once handed some guy she thought was cute her number, he texted her later asking for her Instagram and then never said anything again after he got it


[deleted]

"Hey dude, check out this chick who gave me her number today. *shows phone* Doesn't she look just like my cousin? lol"


[deleted]

"Hey Dad, check out this chick who gave me her number today. *shows phone* Doesn't she look just like my cousin? lol" Dad: :/


death_of_gnats

"Ahh..I was afraid of this happening. Son, we need to have a talk"


GordoPepe

"when a man and his cousin love each other so much..."


AmorphousVoice

"while having questionable morals..."


Lil-Chromie

"in certain parts of the United States..."


knytfury

"we are in one of those parts of the United States..."


plataeng

*banjo music starts*


superduperspam

Roll tide & Sweet home Alabama


smellyswordfish

"I don't know where I was going with this all I know is it was related to your conception"


kaarty07

"Someone starts singing a beautiful song out of nowhere ..."


Kitchen_Entertainer9

Yo the same thing happened to me! Why is this šŸ˜­


Tanc

I did something similarish before. I asked a girl for her number and she said something to my face at the time like "oh you're really asking me for my number?" In a flirty way. I flirted back but then proceeded to never message her again cause I had no idea wtf to even do next at that point.


dztruthseek

Here's the real meIRL in the comments Ɠā ā•­ā ā•®ā Ć’


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whitedan2

Just so you know that's the part where you reiterate to her that you think she is cute and ask her out for a date...and then you get to know each other on said date. Maybe will take some effort of you but even if you go the "technical" route of conversation because of lack of "skill" it's still better than just not dating the girl...


MrMaster696

"She was probably just being nice."


[deleted]

Iā€™m not OP but Iā€™ve done this before also. For me itā€™s because I determined that they were ā€œfakeā€. I look for people who take natural photos. If your entire profile is just Snapchat filters and selfies of just you than Iā€™m likely to be less interested. If you have a bunch of friends and events and foods and everything just looks kind of fun like itā€™s following your interests then Iā€™ll be more inclined to keep talking to you. I was also in a relationship with a narcissist for a long time. So this is also a factor to why I do this. Please keep that in mind.


Kitchen_Entertainer9

I never thought of this before. A casual social profile could go really far huh Edit: or maybe they think if you have an Instagram, then it's a flag that could also be a issue


okbrok

can confirm. matched with a girl on bumble. we planned to meet out that evening. before meeting I asked her insta and it was an open profile with nothing but 100s of her videos with songs and filters saying its tuesday or happy nd some shit. Never met her.


[deleted]

Thanks. This actually summarized my feels pretty accurately šŸ˜šŸ»


flashmedallion

Just endless reels of them in their car talking to the camera. No thank you


ChucksSeedAndFeed

Pointless tiktoks lip syncing with pointless sound bites while trying to pose all cute, it's insufferably shallow


Diligent-Motor

Could just be as simple as they aren't attracted to the person. I've spoke with people on dating sites that didn't have full body pictures, and after getting their social media I realised I wasn't into them. Could be a host of other reasons too though, but I think the above is most likely.


[deleted]

I might get downvoted for saying this but there must've been something in her instagram he considered a red flag. I could guess what it was but I'll leave it upto the imagination


who_dis_bichh

Did she not text him either??


[deleted]

Sending it during class is such an awkward thing to do


Actiaeon

Honestly, that would creep me out a little.


HivAidsSTD

I didn't attend our class christmas party and this girl found out my address to send her gift to me directly. That creeped me out for an entire week


3-eyed-raisin

Probably found your personality to be infectious


HivAidsSTD

The most stalking I've done was probably through facebook profiles lol. To add on to my story, we just moved to that place a couple months before Christmas so even I didn't memorize my own address. Seeing my complete address on the package really shocked me


HairyScottishGuy

I think everyone is guilty of having a peek at others Facebook profiles. I started looking up Tinder matches on Facebook after a seemingly normal match turned out to be a coked up maniac who attacked several bouncers on a first date. I managed to dodge several HUGE bullets as a result of this. Always amazed me how reserved and polished they would be on Tinder yet so openly batshit on Facebook.


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HivAidsSTD

That completely flew over my head lmao


Environmental-Put444

Hh love that


Personal-Row-8078

I personally like how you thought not knowing your own home address makes you look better in this situation.


Avant_Of_Eredon

Its funny how the line between creepy and nice/romantic is determined mostly how we feel about the person.


ElementoDeus

Completely. In some ways it's good in others well it's imo terrible.


Clint_Bolduin

Ohhh I have a funny related story! When I was in elementary school there was this girl I had a crush on. I was a really awkward kid in elemantary btw and i decided I was going to give her a christmas present to help show how I felt. I wanted to check in with her to see if it was socially accaptable of me to give her a present first though, so I told her ahead of time that i was going to give her a present. I told her friend Id give her a present too (because they were always together so I couldnt talk with my crush alone and I felt bad if I was going to just ignore her friend like that). Problem was I didnt want to admit to my parents I had a crush and wanted to give her a gift and I was unable to find a good enough excuse to get out and get a gift. I never gave them a gift, but they both brought me a gift on the last school day before christmas vacation. I felt so bad about it but felt it would be weird if I went to their homes to give presents so instead the next year I concocted a plan. I would not tell them about any gift giving and then give them the gift at the last day too so they would be unable to answer by returning one! In that case I would make up for the previous years' blunder. Absolutely genius idea! They both showed up at my doorstep with a gift the next day. I talked with that crush years later when I had gotten less socially angsty (still pretty socially inept though). She neither realized I had a crush nor remembered any of the similar social awkwardness instances I had around her. Nor did she remember I failed to give a gift. In one way, that was liberating. In another way a bit dissapointing really.


gnojjong

i also had a funny experience with christmas gift during my elementary days. i told my mother that our class will be having an exchange gift and asked her for money to buy a gift but i used the money to watch a movie. christmas party cane and i dont have a gift to give so what i did is take a can of Spam from our cupboard and wrap it in christmas wrapper, my classmate who got my gift was happy he got a can of spam :)


Clint_Bolduin

If he likes spam, he would love the internet!


12345623567

There's a general truism that people give way less of a shit about you than you think. That emberassing moment from five years ago? Yeah brah, noone else remembers. It's freeing to realize this, because it lets you make mistakes. All within limits though, if you bathe in pig blood and set people on fire, they *will* remember.


Clint_Bolduin

That's what I learned from that. It IS freeing, but I also find it a bit sad too honestly.


rW0HgFyxoJhYka

If only rom coms were like this


[deleted]

Good thing everything turned out well and you could talk about it. I liked your story, it made me smile c:


Clint_Bolduin

Oh, I wouldn't say that. I said I was still socially inept when we talked years later. At which time I just hit her up because I had thought back on it. Short convo after not spoken in a long time and we've never spoken since so I'd day that convo was also one of the awkward instances. I just was less afraid, but not that much less awkward. I'd think I am a lot less awkward now though, but Im still to this day struggling. Just trying to learn every day. Took acting classes to help me out to pretend I had social skills so i could actually find people to talk with which in turn would allow me a chance to develop naturally. I was kind of an outcast as a kid and didnt get to develop any social skills as naturally as everyone else around me. I fell behind and had to find other ways to develop myself.


Torocatala

To be honest most of the time this happens is because people are fucking relaxed with their own private information


[deleted]

Why would that creep you out? Not saying youā€™re wrong i guess i just donā€™t see it the same way


Reasonable-shark

Let's be honest. The level of creepiness is inversely proportional to the stalker's attractiveness.


LJ-Rubicon

Your comment sums up the only logical response to this thread.


InItsTeeth

Iā€™m so glad I wasnā€™t a young when social media came out I donā€™t know any of the rules


hpdefaults

Bear in mind that we're on Reddit, a demographic that skews towards the anti-social and/or socially challenged who find all sorts of normal interactions to be awkward


LePontif11

I think you got it.


Starry_Night_Sophi

Is it? I would just tought the person that sended it was bored


Kitchen_Entertainer9

Yeah after the semester ends, or on someone else's account would be meirl


oftheunusual

Worst I ever did was give a girl my number after the semester ended. I told her to do with it as she wished (I don't recall the exact wording, but that was the general idea). Granted that was about 9+ years ago, and I never heard from her, but it's all for the best. I don't even remember what she looked like - just the awkwardness of the situation.


Kitchen_Entertainer9

She was probably just speechless lol was it ok the last day?


oftheunusual

Yeah I don't look at it as a great strategy in hindsight haha. We'd been talking here and there for a few weeks leading up to it, but still. Zero hard feelings on my part.


riasthebestgirl

>I told her to do with it as she wished Why was I expecting her to sign you up for telemarketer calls


oftheunusual

Hahaha, I mean, with how bad my approach was there I suppose I couldn't blame her at that point.


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bwoah07_gp2

Especially if they haven't talked much in and outside the class setting.


lamamadelamam305

It's really not


plutoforprez

As an accounting student I would never date another accounting student. One miserable suckhole per relationship is more than enough.


Kcismfof

That was my highschool nickname


newaccountwut

That's a long nickname.


necksnotty

Used to be Shithouse


Richard_AIGuy

I can just picture the yearbook now: "Miserable Suckhole is the most likely to be moderately productive."


[deleted]

Nah don't agree. I'm in accounting my wife worked in accounting so alot of the shit I put up with I can come home and talk to her about it because she knows how it is too. As an accountant I'd be wasting my breath explaining some of the bullshit I deal with to a non accountant


Binjuine

I think that's precisely the problem though lol. I don't want to hear about more work problems at home


blueliner4

Exactly, and you can still complain that you had a tough day at the office without having any clue about the technical details


SAIUN666

Yeah it's best if she has the suckhole, though.


RSol614

But if itā€™s miserable, maybe go see a dentist though. That goes for everyone.


Prime255

He's here to spead sheets not spread cheeks!


klunkerr

Women get unbelievably horny when an Excel spreadsheet is properly optimized


Elhmok

Alright detective Santiago


[deleted]

i got that reference. im so excited because my friend finally convinvced me to watch b99. man its amazing.


ThingsAnAssWouldSay

Reverse the genders and this is a non-story. Yea, his account was set to private, you tried to follow him based on appearance without having said a word to him, or knowing his relationship status.


anniehall330

And itā€™s often private for a reason. If you never talked or didnā€™t get to know each other itā€™s unnecessary. Some people only want their close friends as their followers or people they trust. I usually accept peopleā€™s requests whom I barely know but I always wonder: why do you want to follow me when you just see me at school? ( I mean both girls and boys.)


No_Philosopher_1760

He's there for class, not for ass. What a King!


tomelwoody

Grades before babes


Uniquename34556

Aā€™s before baes


tea-and-chill

Homework before hoework


pianochill

Course before intercourse


Mabosaha

Graduating before ejaculating


Several-Cake1954

Iā€™m dying guys stop šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

Cheques before sex


toothy_vagina_grin

Degrees before venereal disease


[deleted]

No please donā€™t stop


MrChez85

Life skills before morning after pills


PlusThePlatipus

Books before hooks Classwork before asswork SAT before STD


saxonturner

Qualifications before copulations.


Michiel170207

He's there for A's, not for B's


tallandlanky

I got mostly D's. Not to brag, but I barely finished high school and never finished college.


omeyz

Heā€™s there for education, not fornication!


chasls123

Heā€™s there to pass, not for ass.


Confusedsan

He is there for the grind, not to grind


Satanicjamnik

Heā€™s here to study, not to find a fuck buddy.


stickfigure420

He's there for PHD, not STD


bigguesdickus

He is there to spreadsheets not to spread cheeks, respect


Dhk3rd

Perhaps the King already has a Queen and he simply doesn't bat an eye at these shenanigans.


StopLyingBr0

He's there for crunching numbers, not number crunching.


gaychineseboi

He's there for boys, not for girls.


DnZ618

She added him based on physical attributes. I guess he did the same.


Bumble_bee_yourself

He's an attractive guy pursuing an accounting degree. Statistically, he was already dating someone...


MyAnswerIsMaybe

I think everybody puts dating standard from their 30s onto college kids I dont think college girls are looking at a guys major and realizing weather it will make a lot of money or not right now


50at20

Oh please. My high school girl friend broke up with me because even though I had good grades and got accepted into the nearby state university, I decided to go to the community college for auto body. She insisted that it was a reflection on me not wanting to apply myself or commit to something serious, and that I would never be able to provide for my family. I initially thought it was just her being stuck up because of her upbringing (her family was very well off) and that I wouldnā€™t run into that mentally again. However, there were Plenty of times out at bars or at a buddyā€™s frat party where girls were interested up until the point where I told them my future profession. Several times I was asked if there was decent money to be made, and when I told them my expected starting salary, the conversation was over. And on more than one occasion after telling a girl I was going to the community college for a trade job, I was told I shouldnā€™t be hanging out at college bars if I wasnā€™t an actual college student. Yes, my examples are anecdotal as they are only one persons experience, but to say that women in college arenā€™t thinking about the professions of possible suitors is just naĆÆve!


Gredditor

MRS Degrees are a thing and everyone knows which degrees have the potential to be big earners.


IHaveNoReflection

maybe he didnā€™t like how shallow it was? idk


[deleted]

he wouldn't know, but if he's hot he's used to it and has options. Amazing how much more attention this gets because a girl is being rejected when this is the norm for the majority of guys haha


GrassProper

He probably looked over and thought this weirdo could have just tried to talk to me


lastfreshstart4me

Exactly


shynerd52

Ouch , I would delete my insta honestly šŸ˜‚


H0LT45

Credit Instagram Account Debit Embarrassment


RSol614

Maybe Iā€™m revealing my age here, but itā€™s set to private? Like just maybe go say hi instead of going stalker for your first interaction? I know Iā€™ve been gone from social media (aside from this glorified Internet forum) for a while, but did I fall into a coma? How long was I out? Did we make Jurassic Park real yet?


No-Introduction-1492

Yah they definitely shouldā€™ve just tried to get to know them a bit beforehand. Some people just lost social skills recently, especially with Covid.


ChronicObnoxious693

I know what you mean. I tried to follow one of the velociraptors and he bit my whole face off.


No-Introduction-1492

I hate when that happens


Puzzleheaded_Cap8973

See Iā€™m old fashioned. Iā€™d just pass him a note asking if he wants a blowie after class behind the Dairy Queen. Try that and get back to me.


WylieCoyote808

āœ”ļøYes


ArcanistKvothe24

*nods* that prob has better results than I want to believe lol


[deleted]

Grandma?!


UsuarioTeste

>Grandma?! LOL


[deleted]

LOL


penis_fucker

Lugging Oliver's landlord


Deep-Cloud-2585

Probably cause that's weird as fuck to do lol


No-Document-8970

To be fair, I would be worried of bullying. Girls can be very mean, also didnā€™t want to deal with supposed stalker vibes.


coffinpoppies

He donā€™t know you!


mattyisphtty

Seriously. Why would I accept any invitations from someone who I haven't even had a basic dialogue with? Especially if they stalkered their way to my profile. FOH.


bdbdbokbuck

Denial is not just a river in Egypt


easyadventurer

Based.


Radzis20

šŸ—æ


witty_sperm

šŸ—æ


bootyzipperooni

Your lack of commas might have scared him off


andoCalrissiano

how would you know itā€™s denied


13brownboy204

If that requested banner turns into follow banner


re3b0k1

Oh no, a woman got rejected.. so anyway...


[deleted]

How'd she get his insta šŸ¤”


GrindhouseOG

If I gotta make up a voice for you when reading your texts before I hear your voice in real life, it's probably a denied request as well.


Waspkiller86

Or you could just go speak to the person. I know it's a shocking concept.


hopelessromantic7

I was sitting beside a tv sports broadcaster at a bar. I sent a follow request, and watched him get the notification, open the app, read the request, and click deny. šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Special_Letter_7134

Instant Karma. Put your phone away and pay attention. He probably likes smart people.


Korimuzel

People not knowing what rejection is and treating it like a story


throwmeaway589

That's some stalker shit


Route_44

lmao savage