People with no online presence

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After a morning of nosing around old classmates facebook pages and seeing what everyone is up to these day it got me wondering about the one or two who have no facebook and one in particular who has no online presence at all. I come from a small village and I think I am facebook friends with virtually everyone in my year at high school except one girl, who will now be 40 and a guy who does have a twitter but no facebook.

The girl is just off grid nothing comes up for her. I do know her brother and I know she went to art school in London and lives in Copenhagen now with her Danish husband. She was always a bit of a loner at school but nice. I guess I am just pretty nosey about her and wonder why she or anyoen doesn't have any social media or linkedin at all? I used to think people who didn't use social media had something to hide or that looking at other peoples lives just made them depressed but it sounds like she has done well for herself and I find it a bit sad she doesn't keep in touch with the old country!

I know a lot of people do give social media up if they find it overwhelming or depressing and some just don't care. This isn't meant to be judgmental I'm just curious about why people don't do social media, especially if they have normal or successful lives?

Perhaps she really hated school and has no desire to remember any old classmates etc.

I have no social media.

I can't be arsed.

If I am friends with you I will call you or you can call me and we will keep in touch and meet up etc.

If we don't have each other's numbers then we aren't close friends so why would I be arsed what your up to?
And why would you be arsed what I'm up to?

Facebook is all a facade anyway is it not? No one ever puts on as a status "my husband is cheating on me" or "I'm up to my eyes in credit card debt" it all seems to be about "living your best life"

I’m on Fakebook and did 6 posts in the whole of 2017! I do like a good nosey though 😊😊

I have nothing. I like being invisible!

No exciting reason. I'm not curious about people either.

I don't have any social media either. I've done some moderately stupid things in the past and also had to go through some not great things and I like that I can completely leave things behind. Feels very freeing! I did have Facebook at uni and when I finished and was struggling through a succession of minimum wage jobs I found it very difficult to see friends posts about fun parties and professional successes!! I am much happier without it! DH also doesn't have any social media...is it really so unusual? I thought it was fairly normal to have nothing!

To me social media is pointless I just don t get the selfies the endless pictures etc never been into it and am
30
when I was last on there someone I was friends with on Facebook saw me out with my children at the cinema and said it's good you're getting out I wondered what the hell she was talking about and later
wondered whether she thought I stayed in a lot because I didn't post about anything I did on Facebook
Without fail She posted on Facebook about her little trip to the cinema
From what I. All
L lol see Facebook is
Mostly a tool for games and self -esteem

As an analytical person Facebook is interesting though lots of true colors appear on there
Excuse lack of punctuation phone keypad is broke

Powerless I don't understand your comment. Somé people just don't want an internet presence.

I have Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. All of them are completely locked down. I am NC with certain family members due to abuse. Believe me, you'd have a hell of a time trying to find me online. I've had a very techy friend try it before (on purpose) and fail completely.

I have SM accounts. I use an alias.
I have no desire at all to have any association with old classmates. They were cunts then and now as an adult, I have the choice of who I am in contact with.

I work in social media and in spite of (or perhaps because of) that, my sm presence is low - a work linkedin, a hobby related Instagram with no one from IRL on it and a regularly culled, fairly private FB, which I use mainly for competitions. I also have twitter and only follow the dc's schools.

My husband has no social media presence and no interest in having one. I have a locked down FB account only because of a previous private work group - you’d have a very weird view of my ‘friendship’ group from that. I still have some of the overseas ones as friends but I unfollowed them because I had no interest in their day to day lives. I am now in a private group associated with an art interest - I’ve commented but never posted and am very foggy about what a wall or a timeline is.

I have an Insta account under non identifying name to follow some friends and some art interests and, again, have never made an originating post myself.

I use my pseudonymous Twitter account to follow local events and get up to date information on the latest shambles by the rail company much faster than via their useless app.

I am using social media in a way that suits me, it’s not open to the public because why would I want to discuss my home, family or career with strangers in a way that could be identifying ? I am not interested in them.

I use various forms of messaging and actual pen and paper to one determinedly non-tech friend, but these are all with actual friends and family.

I'm not on any social media apart from here, and a closed writing group. I think I would actually love FB, but I don't agree with the way it's run. Join FB, and FB will collect and store every scrap of data about you that it can. I won't have a smart phone for the same reason. If you have never looked into the implications of many of your personal details getting into the hands of big companies, I think you really should.

DP has a FB page but barely uses it. Few times a year - maybe. No Twitter, LinkedIn, Insta, etc. He's busy in real life work hobbies family etc and just not bothered with all that.

I think there are quite a few people who don't feel the need for an online presence but society has somehow convinced us they're not the norm.

1 of my brothers uses FB occasionally, the other 3 not at all. Again, no Twitter etc Same with some of my friends, just never got into it. 1 friend said she could see herself wasting too much time online so doesn't want to go there.

Different folks different strokes I guess, not everyone thinks it's necessary to be wired in.

I am eliminating my online footprint bit by bit. It's for a combination of several reasons - work-related reasons, some difficult relationships playing out on social media, and simply because I found it a massive time-thief.

Probably the only think I miss about social media is that it does work as an excellent closet racist detector.

One person at work will not do social media at all, as a result of nasty allegations made about one of their children on Facebook, which the company did not take down.

I will admit to looking at social media profiles of those who join at work, not just LinkedIn, though that is usually the most interesting.

I have zero social media presence and I do very well personally, socially and professionally. I am 100% sure that if I did have a SM presence it would actually dilute down What I have in these spheres and would be negative overall.

I have a few friends who are teachers/ police officers/ prison officers who have no social media presence unless you know it's them and are rl friends. So Jane Smith will have a profile as Janny Mithy. Or Bob Dylan will be Bo Delanios. Non searchable/ trackable if you're looking for them but if you KNOW them they're there. Social workers, doctors, do this. They want to be unsearchable but have friends if they know who they are.

I don’t have a social media presence. I don’t use Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp or snapchat at all.

I have a twitter account under a pseudonym which links to a gmail account in a different pseudonym which is used only for this purpose. I don’t tweet and have no followers, but I do follow others.

On Internet forums such as MN my profile links to the same gmail pseudonym. To the best of my knowledge, there are no photographs of me online. I have a distinctive name, and if I google myself, nothing
Appears which links to me.

Officially, I don’t exist .

Exactly what @itsbritneybiatches said, I couldn’t have put it better myself.

I think @itsbritneybiatches has got this spot on!

I have a very unusual name IRL (I believe I'm what's known as a 'Googlewhack'), so my online presence is VERY tightly locked down.

If you searched my name, I'd appear on LinkedIn and a few professional things I've done, but you would basically have to be quite an experienced online search operative to find my FB/Twitter/Insta presence.

I joined fb when it was all the rage & liked the sharing of photos as my parents are immigrants so all my extended family are abroad. Account was always private though. I’m very sociable but apart from family updates I know what my friends are up to & I haven’t used fb in months.

Joined linkedin but profile is out of date, not really necessary in my line of work.

Loved insta in the beginning but fb has destroyed it. It’s just a selling site now so I’m not interested.

Think snapchat is for the kids, would be lost without whatsapp though if that counts.

am on twitter, only use it for finding out news.

I am old enough to have watched 1984 when it came out, that's why I have no online presence and never will have.

For me it’s not even privacy (although there are some concerns). I legitimately do not have the time for it & I’m not interested in seeing an old colleagues duckface in front of a landmark or having an insta mum sell me a sweater.