How many social network accounts should a person have?
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan I'm dreaming of "one account to rule them all" and quite hoping that Fediverse will make that dream a reality very soon!
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Johnydon :TheCDN3: he/himreplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan
I said zero. A person may have as many accounts as they want but none of them need a "should" attached. -
Evan Prodromoureplied to Jonathan Lamothe last edited by
@me really? If a friend came to you and said, I think I need to set up 50,000 social media accounts, one for each character in the Chinese language, you would just say, sure, that's what everybody does?
Or would you give them some actual advice reflecting good practices for mental and social well-being?
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@fifilamoura what are some reasons that people would want different numbers of social network accounts?
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@evan Wanting to post different things than you do on your main account, wanting some privacy from work or other related authorities, being on a number of different social networks, different social media accounts offering different things....and other benign and also harm related reasons. It's a bit like belonging to more than one social group or club in some ways.
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@fifilamoura so, some of those sound more like what social network companies want than what the person wants.
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Philip Kaludercicreplied to Fifi Lamoura last edited by
@fifilamoura @evan I read this as a normative question, or in other words what should they want to live a good life or something like that.
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@evan Not at all, it's partly a societal thing, certainly far more than it's a platform thing (and I find cis men on the fediverse consistently confuse this). One thing I've observed repeatedly here in discussions of the fediverse is that privileged cis men constantly think that everyone automatically wants all the attention, that all attention is good and that anyone who wants something different from them is automatically wrong and irrational.
A lot of this has to do with how cis men of privilege exist in the world and are extended a type of safety and lack of real repercussions that many other people in society aren't at all. It's a reflection and related to cis men's expectations that everyone else will do their emotional labour (and the dishes, etc). It's a fundamental difference of perspective and incapacity or unwillingness to really value other perspectives fully (aka believe Othered people).
A lot of it is unconscious on the part of the men doing it here in the fediverse but it's also something a lot of cis men are in active denial about so get upset if it's brought up. Cis men deconstructing and truly understanding how patriarchy works (and how it's even worse in the business world) and then doing better about these things could actually contribute to real changes in our world (and are necessary for any real changes to occur).
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Fifi Lamourareplied to Philip Kaludercic last edited by
@pkal @evan Any question about identity and "should" is very fraught. And social media accounts often reflect people's identity or identities. Just like most people have different identities/personas they use in different contexts, it's a large part of what nicknames are about. But, also, many people literally have alter egos (a character they play in a game, a drag or stage persona, etc). I'd be wary of "normative questions" around identity and ignoring the intersection between identity and social media accounts. I find it odd that this gets glossed over somewhere like the fediverse! But maybe I inhabit a corner of the fediverse more conversant in these things.
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@evan But it's important to only use one and make people feel ghosted on 10++ other platforms
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Anꞇóin Ó B.replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
A question so simple it's far too brutality hard for me to answer, sorry.
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@pitch can't they just follow you from those platforms
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Anꞇóin Ó B. last edited by
@barcode tryyyyyyyyy
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@evan I don’t think there should be a general limit. Needs differ from one person to the next.
Personally, I would love to unify everything I have under one identity. That might not be feasible for people who need alt accounts, or just want to break out their online identities into separate contexts.
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@deadsuperhero "6 or more"
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@me anyway, "6 or more"
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Darnell Clayton :verified:replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@[email protected] Many people have more than 6 as each social network caters to a different area in their lives (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etcetera).
I do not think one social network can do everything & do it well. However, you should be able to follow every social network from a single account. -
@evan I voted 2-5 cause that's what I have, but the real answer is "as many as they want"
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@fifilamoura , well said!
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Aaron Lord :csharp:replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan props to those who said 0!