Do you know anyone with Zero online presence?

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That’s my question? My DH was like this until he had to set up a LinkedIn account for work, he also has a profile now on his work website. But no Social media.

I have a profile on my work website and also have Instagram and Facebook.

The only person I can think of is my Nan as she’s illiterate and her life is very basic. She is aware of things like social media from watching the television but she also speaks little English so has a very sheltered life.

I was trying to track down my old neighbour’s daughter to contact her and found nothing online. Also an old university friend who is a solicitor and I can she’s on the roll but I can’t find her on her firm website.

I can usually find out a lot about people straightaway (e.g. new prospective clients) because of their online profiles but some people have zero presence!

I have a client who works in IT he has zero presence out of choice! I find that really interesting. He said he’d rather there was nothing about him available online.

I think DS only got onto Whatsapp because of his Uni flatmates - they wanted a messaging system for the flat, so they could let each other know about if any of them wanted to go shopping together, or for a day out, or a reminder for someone to put the bins out, or for someone to buy washing up liquid or kitchen foil, etc. Seemed a lot easier than texting random people or some of them never knowing what was going on or what "communal" tasks needed doing. They made a rule that their group was "flatmates" only though, so it was a closed group and no one else was invited. So not public.

I think he joined a couple of course/module Whatsapp groups too at first, but soon gave up on that because he got nothing out of it - he said it was just a few other students always wanting answers to cheat rather than doing the work themselves and he wanted no part in that.

Me! I use WhatsApp but that’s it. I have a dormant FB account from a few years ago which I’m loathe to delete entirely as it’s the only way of communicating with a couple of clubs that I’d like to rejoin. Never has the FB app, or the messenger thing.
Never even been on Instagram. Don’t know how it works.
Briefly had to have a work Twitter thing a few years ago - never got to grips with it.

I don’t feel a need to live in two realities at once (the real world & the virtual world), and really I don’t have time.

@SuperiorM There is if you want to add photos/attachments. Pretty sure I get an additional charge if I add anything to a text. And if I email DB I also have to text him to tell him to look at it otherwise it could be days until he sees it!

I don't really think SM is linked to being IT savvy.

Lots of very IT savvy people don't do SM, that's by their choice. Perhaps the most IT savvy people simply don't want to do it because they understand the risks better than "normal" people.

Obviously people without internet can't do SM as you do need the internet of course, even though some people who are "all over" social media say that they don't have the internet, which I think is pretty strange, as they must have it to have SM! But I think that's lack of their understanding really!

But it's definitely not the case that because someone isn't on SM that they're not IT savvy.

My stepdad exists online only as a member of the team on his company website (but no picture) and his company email address. No social media, doesn't even have a mobile phone and never has had. Not so much as a private email address.

Interesting, I just think that, for many people, texts can be the norm.

For example, if your other half or child was letting you know they were on their way back after work/school would they Whatsp?

@SuperiorM DH, DS & I use a mixture of Messenger and WhatsApp with the occasional text. The beauty of WA & M is you can see if the message has been delivered or read.

Fair enough, you can see if texts have been read too

My husband! Works it IT so it has no relation to his tech knowledge. He just hates social media. Won’t join what’s app even though it would make my life and his friends lives easier as that’s how we all message.

DH has minimal online presence.
I was online for work (self employed) but that’s it. If you look up my name, that’s the only thing that comes up.

It’s only recently that I started a personal account on SM. And even then I am very careful of what I post. None of the more personal accounts have a photo for example.

One reason why I’m so careful (account in private, regular name change on
MN etc…) is because some people will look you up. And I simply dont want them to be able to advertise my whole life to the world vs choosing who I tell what.

My children have learnt that if they want an immediate answer, they have to ring lol. Texts might not be seen fur a few hours!

I actually agreed with ds (At Uni now). It’s WhatsApp fur day to day conversation. Texts if it needs a quick answer. Phone for anything urgent.

None of us expect an immediate answer, the way I see it described on here.

I have hardly a trace presence online. No social media at all. The only things I have are if Google my name you'll see me registered on company's house and a couple of very old magazine articles on me and competition work I've done, but they've misspelled my surname so unless you know, ypu won't find me. It's unusual given what I do and my industry to not have a presence on the everything available.

Yes my DH is pretty impossible to find online. He is on Facebook but doesn't use it. He has no other online presence at all.

I also have an ex-colleague with virtually zero online presence (other than the odd mention of events she has been speaking at). She is a data protection lawyer which probably explains that one!

My DH only got Whatsapp recently, he managed with text and email before. It was only because his sister kept sending him Facebook messages which he had to log into Facebook to read so they agreed to use Whatsapp instead (and it's useful as DS and I use it).

My husband has never used social media and is never likely to. He doesn't even use WhatsApp and had only had a mobile phone for around five years. I've got a Facebook account, which is set to the maximum privacy settings, but don't use it and only set it up so that I could link a couple of the games I play to different iPads/phones etc. I've never used Instagram and don't use twitter, and have never set up a LinkedIn account. It I do an internet search for myself, there are only a couple of results that come up, through schools that I work for. My daughter also doesn't use social media now that she's older. Ive got accounts on a couple of local anonymous forums but that's all. I've never shared a photo of myself or a family member online and have never understood why people do so.

Mine does, but he follows other people, he doesn't post anything himself. Which seems pretty sensible to me.

My mum, no Facebook, Instagram etc. google her name you get nothing

My 91 year old mother. She doesn't even own a phone, let alone a tablet.

I don’t have any online stuff in my real name either or any online photos of myself

I have FB Insta and Twitter but not in my real name or my real home city no photos of me & my family and no friends or friends of friends and you can’t search my profile for anything about me . I use it for searching stuff that I want to read about but I don’t need online SM stuff about me

my email address is nothing like my real name and I don’t have any SM accounts that would link you to me
I have a throw away email accounts for stuff that would spam me crap

even my Watsapp I don’t have any photos or names on it

i have two phones one for family / friends and people I like 😂
and one which I use for official stuff so banks / accountants stuff like that anything official gets my second number

my husband has a business on line stuff but no SM personal stuff

and neither of us have any photos of us on line anywhere or any family photos pet photos blah blah

luckily we are both similar so it doesn’t bother either of of us

I had a colleague who at every departmental event would not stop taking pictures. Even just sitting in the pub at lunchtime.Not the only annoying thing about her, either.

My mum has never owned a moblie phone, tablet or computer. Only uses cash to pay for things.

My parents.
DH's cousin and wife.
Sister-in-law
Neighbour.
DH's friend, a decade younger than DH.

Yes, me.
I'm on several forums and Twitter but anonymously. I don't have FB, Insta, or any other social media. I have never put a photo of myself online, even anonymously. If you tried to find me online you would hit a brick wall.

Same with my OH and four friends I can think of. We're all in our 60s. We all have iPhones/tablets/laptops and could very easily be on SM if we wanted to, but we don't want to.

My parents (70s) just have a shared email account. They do online banking and my mum buys the odd thing online but other than that no social media, no whatsapp.

I've only got Mumsnet no other social media or online presence. I hate social media and have never had Facebook or instagram