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It fascinates me how some people on social media nowadays actively seem to be weirded out when you attempt to actively interact with them, or to reply to their posts - as if they assume it’s a broadcast-first medium.

I primarily use social media because I genuinely talking with and meeting new people, and I do at least try to read and reply to all interactions. I find it interesting how many comments I’ve received from other social media users about how apparently unusual my online behavior is in 2026.

I’ve always been a comparatively pretty high-active-engagement (IE, posting and replying, not just scrolling) social media, user, since I was a kid - but I do find it somewhere in between fascinating and alarming that being as active as I am appears to be becoming increasingly unusual.

Not trying to throw shade on you but very few people can commit as much time to posting as you do. I often wonder how you in particular can hold down your job.

I suspect a spend less aggregate time here than many other very active users do, but I try to compress that time into chunks of flurries of activity

Another thing is people with .05% the followers as you might not feel there's much point in posting, I feel like no one cares what I type here, and also they might be justified in not caring about most of my posts. I try to not clog up people's brains if I'm not saying anything novel.

And some people go nuclear if you reply in slight disagreement. Even just expressing a different pov without disagreeing will make people upset sometimes. There's a lot of people here with the "how DARE YOU reply to my post" attitude.