Like a lot of us, I remember when Facebook required you to have a university email in order to sign up. I signed up as soon as I was given a school email address, and was surprised to learn that my American friends (I went to college in the States) used Myspace instead. I tried signing up for Myspace, but I just had such a hard time deciding who my top friends were!<\/p>\n
I don’t use Facebook (or Myspace) anymore. I was never super keen on it, but I appreciated that it enabled me to contact almost all my friends at any given time. But over the years I’ve had the misfortune of seeing\u00a0 how much of a person’s online persona is carefully cultivated, and it’s just not something I’m interested in being a part of.<\/p>\n
Social Media accounts I have:<\/p>\n
– Twitter<\/strong> (I post sometimes and I swear I’m funny, but people never “favourite” my tweets. So … it’s mostly just disheartening) Social Media stuff I couldn’t care less about:<\/p>\n -Pintrest<\/strong> (I actually can’t believe this site caught on. I thought it was just for girls looking for wedding ideas that look just like everyone else’s wedding) One last thing I should mention is that in grade 10 or so I had a blog online on a website called Dead Journal<\/em>, which is like Live Journal, but for angsty teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like a lot of us, I remember when Facebook required you to have a university email in order to sign up. I signed up as soon as I was given a school email address, and was surprised to learn that my American friends (I went to college in the States) used Myspace instead. I tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ashleysblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Instagram<\/strong> (kinda the same as twitter except I swear my selfies are flattering, and nobody seems to think so)<\/p>\n
\n– LinkedIn<\/strong> (I already have a job and I haven’t done enough cool stuff, career-wise, to want to post it online)
\n– Vine<\/strong> (Is this still a thing?)
\n– Snapchat<\/strong> (Nothing bores me more than seeing weird videos of you doing boring things)
\n– Other Facebook-like websites<\/strong> (Nope. No thanks)<\/p>\n