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This is why I don't use my legal name or talk about my offline life all that much in social media. I never name drop myself just because I don't want some weirdo online stalking me or combing over my family's own social media posts for some "juicy deets" or whatever to get attention bucks on Twitter or Facebook. It's this kind of thing that really annoys me about the modern internet. Too many people try to know what others are doing when they shouldn't care even in the best of times. I don't wanna know that James Gunn did tasteless jokes about kids and I definitely don't wanna see someone's nudes they sent to their BF/GF. I think at some point social media needs to be forced back into the smaller kind of groups of the late 90s where you either knew folks by their handle or just knew them in real life so you talked online from time to time just as a convenience. Other than that, I don't want my life to be intersecting with strangers online who constantly look to have their two minutes of hate. And I say this as a leftist, trans, and a non-Christian. I'm just not up for the social media nonsense of today.


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