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That's something social media can never replace, the interaction, the hugs, and looking into someone's eyes.

But when you go to events, people keep asking for your IG; sometimes I don't know if I should make one so that "I am a normal person," but then again, I probably won't see most of them again; How do you guys handle this? I do want to connect with people whom I find interesting or admire while still staying relatively low-profile online.

I think it is pretty normal to ask for someone's IG or WhatsApp at an event, and I assume they are just trying to connect and maybe become friends even? In our pursuit for "privacy" we should be careful we don't cut ourselves off from the world because of some imagined purity test.

This kind of thing is promoted as healthy in some parts of the Bitcoin world, but I think it is not so good to be cut off from the world we live in.

Can always use an app like beeper to handle the instagram messages instead of using the app anyway.

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people keep asking for your IG

What a creepy thing to ask, lol. No one ever asks me that, but I probably fall outside of the demographic anyway.

How do you guys handle this?

I have a garbage signal account that I allow people access to, and that phone is always off - I read it a couple times per month. People can get "promoted" to an account I actually use, if they behave and turn out to be good relations, which almost never happens - there are 5 non-fam people on my production signal right now and all but one is fully muted, lol.

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What a creepy thing to ask,

it's a really normal thing to ask these days, and i don't like it! I also don't like how ppl keep asking for my fiat name lol as if it actually matters what name i use.

"promoted" 😀

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Maybe they’d stop asking if you looked like opti.

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Nice try.

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No one’s ever asked me either

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You're likely to also be in the wrong demographic.

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198 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 5 Oct

I mean both women and men asked for mine, I guess that's how young ppl social these days.

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Ah but I didn't mean gender haha

126 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 5 Oct

what's opti

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Good question. I doubt he’ll tell you.

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@optimism

This is what happens when you over rely on @Darth for info

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use a fake number and alias, why is this so difficult for you? grow a pair

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IG is my garbage signal account

I don't post anything

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Why on earth would you interact with anything from a company that goes to lengths like this to deanonymize you?

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I don't use Android

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Laziness and stupidity

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137 sats \ 5 replies \ @sox 5 Oct
What a creepy thing to ask, lol.

In 2026 asking for a phone number is 100x creepier than asking for an IG handle. Calls in general are now considered creepy*.

*at least in my demographic.

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277 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 5 Oct

sharing number is still a normal thing in where i live. 😂

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112 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 5 Oct

Same difference.

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Creepy and cringe... over used micro agressions

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Your demographic is full of cowards and drama queens

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Are you attractive? If you are not attractive, you will not be stalked by other men

Even weirdos have standards

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I can relate... I created a bare IG account to keep in touch with people I met on a recent cruise

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