How far do you go?

[hoozierbond]

When you find someone's social media profile, whether it be a beautiful co-worker, former flame, or an old crush...

How far do you go? Just look at the pictures? Try to make contact? Fantasize?

 

[Sir_Timo_Volodok]

Nowhere, b/c I've been happily off social media since 2010, with the unfortunate exception of LinkedIn, which remains suspended/hibernated unless I'm actively looking for a job.

Best decision I ever made. It did not hurt me in the dating department, despite everyone saying it would. "They'll think you're hiding something!" Nope. Most didn't ask. The few that did didn't seem to care.

Best quote I ever read on the subject, "The seduction of social media is feeling like your voice itself has intrinsic power. It doesn't. This is not a public discourse. You are a tourist entering into an algorithmic game run by hustlers, on a street policed by the illiterate, under a regime paid by taxing attention."

Also:

 

[AmberStellar6]

I like to fantasize, bit usually it can't go farther without life getting awkward

 

[ClockworkCourtesan]

As a victim of stalking, I am not on any sort of "social" media. I post here, and another forum very infrequently. That's as far as I go for social stimulation. I even limit how much I leave my house.

 

[Britva415]

you find someone's social media profile

"Found" them, huh? Like, by accident, I'm sure.