the feeling I got last night when trying it out was similar to the sensory overload some ppl get after standing in the middle of times square on a saturday afternoon
I have this kind of variant of FOMO where I fear that other people will enjoy the thing I hate while I’m not there and then I’m gonna have to either deal with it or be a weird cloistered outsider.
Don’t worry! With modern technology if you just say the words “I want to join instagram” aloud an account will be created for you with all the identifying fields pre-filled!
It applies to things you know will be horrible but you want to see the train wreck but you hate that you want to see the train wreck, or the party everyone says you have to go to and you know you will and you will hate it and you do
That’s interesting bc I spend a lot of time in a very data limited situation and IG is one of the easiest things for me to use (and apples weather app one of the hardest)
Right?! Usually the accounts are at least mixed, but Threads sounds worse and worse with every comment I hear about it. Like it's engineered to be the worst parts of social media in one package.
Weirdly, the "What's Hot" feed here seems...pretty good? But that's probably because there's not many on here yet so the jerks aren't upvoting each other so much.
Imagine how embarrassing it'd be to check it out and some random dopamine molecule bounces in just the right spot to make your brain say "this is gonna be what I spend 4000 hours on over the next few years."
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(also describes me back at any high school function or similar, same vibes tbh)
Yeah, it kind of sounds weird, but so is registering to Threads. You’re screwed either way.
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Pass.
Being the weird cloistered outsider.
Your friends end up eventually enjoying the chance to show you something new that everyone else already knows.
FOBOI?
JOMO
SOMO - Satisfaction On Missing Out
or
FOBI - Fear Of Being Included
Also: samesies
(And same)
Alternately
Fear Of Getting Involved
or
Fear Of Giving In
It applies to things you know will be horrible but you want to see the train wreck but you hate that you want to see the train wreck, or the party everyone says you have to go to and you know you will and you will hate it and you do
Instant Regret at Coming
Pleasure of missing out
I'm just waiting for other comrades to make their way here.
I am content to be done with Zuckerberg
Super happy I saw that before making an account there
But they got like 50m sign-ups in 2 days because it was open door.
Where a not small number of those people had been asking for invite codes to BlueSky before.
So they went where they were able, and would have come here if they were able.
DIMO
Example: I've been so HOMO about the jock party.
It'll confuse the fuck outta everyone.
threads is just too different and doesn't have the things twitter brain(tm) has come to expect.
Joy At Pausing Elsewhere
GIBE…
Glee In Being Elsewhere
As in "leave me out of this!"
Missing
Out
And
Feeling
Fine
Aversion
To
Being
Involved
FOLYBL
Fuck Off. Massively Opposed.