This is niche, but in dating / not-quite-dating apps, it’s not terribly uncommon for people to want to see a social media profile, both as a way to get to know you more and to verify that you’re a real person.

As an introvert who never wanted my business to be out in the open with my real name attached, no. Was always told never use your real name online and how many times people these days had themselves bitten for doing the opposite it should be obvious by now. Not really the masses fault but the standard from Facebook years ago.

I personally don’t have any except for a LinkedIn and I never feel like I’m missing out. People don’t care, I never ask to follow people. If I care, I’ll get their phone number.

But usually, I don’t care.

Yeah. You are often left out of group activities, your friends don’t chat with you as often (not talking about close friends, but more about those buddies you go out with once in a while), you’re left out of local communities (there were very few people from my country on Reddit, it’s even less on Lemmy).

One anecdotal chime in: I dropped the Zuck for a year and gradually realised that my city runs all its cultural events through Facebook - unless you know or someone invites you, that was pretty much it.

I think I did miss out on meeting new people or seeing old friends by chance, simply because I didn’t know to turn up somewhere for a gig or whatever - and the old addage has some truth imo; often you just need to be in the right place at the right time for things to happen.

One example is that some companies will not hire someone with no presence. Not happened to me personally.

Many of my friends organize events and have group conversations on Facebook, and I miss out on a fair bit of it. I still have an account, I just don’t use it except to check once a week or so if there’s something happening. I hate it.

I don’t think so. It’s just a little more inconvenient.

For example: I don’t need to see posts from friends to know how their day was. Instead, I just call them or meet them for a coffee and ask about their day.

The old fashioned ways still work well.

As a teenager or young adult, maybe. But as you grow older less so. Adding someone on social media has never really been brought up in my current social circles. Sure the occasional linkedin invite if it’s in a professional setting, but my current group of acquaintances hasn’t really thought about adding each other on every social media platform or exchanged contacts other than phone numbers.

It has huge potential impacts. There are kids who get excluded from social groups for having Android

Not really. In fact, I did a little dumphone detox a few weeks ago and literally nothing changed other than not having access to apps like telegram until I could access my laptop. Oh, and no video calling. I think now that I’m in my late 20s, married, with my little circle of close friends, and work peers I don’t really find a need for social media. Now when I was in high school and witnessed the birth of Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, it was a big deal to have an account and I didn’t start purging those accounts until a few years ago…

Depends on a person and their social circle. I hardly have any social life apart from the on-line interactions and infrequent in-person meetings with on-line friends. And it is not like I stopped having friends when the internet appeared, on the contrary.

Social media getting shittier and shittier directly affects my social life. I hope something good for this purpose appears soon and at least some of my friends and acquaintances move there, like they moved to Facebook years ago.

Looking for work would be tougher. Even when I finally retire I will keep my linkedin just for folks that need a reference or such. Myabe 5 years down the line could dump it.

My profession generally encourages a LinkedIn presence. You don’t need to participate, but it helps in people knowing who you are.

no