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Challenges meeting new people without an Instagram account (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 days ago by ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve been trying to meet new friends and new people to hang out with so have been going to a lot of social events.

I noticed that everyone seems to ask for my instagram account and when I say I don’t have one that connection kind of dies, and it feels too personal to ask for someone number when I just met them.

I don’t want to create an instagram because of the privacy invasions of meta but I also don’t want to feel left out when trying to make new connections. Anyone have any advice?

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anyone have any advice?

Ask them for their number, and see how it goes? Worst case, they will say 'no', end of the story. Maybe the will ask why you don't have IG and that will be the start of an interesting conversation.
Try to meet different kind of people? I mean it seriously. I know a lot of people around me who have IG/Facebook/X and so on but at the same time none of them make it a requirement to use it.
Use a second phone/number for that crap content only? I barely use my 'real' phone (I have nothing installed on it beside what I'm required to use) still I do own a second phone just so I can easily share a number with all the services and various craps that ask for one. It's a phone I never answer to, despite it being constantly harassed by callers. And that peace of mind (my real number is almost spam free) only costs me the 2€/month (plus the phone, I purchased used). You should be able to do something similar for social networks: have a second phone without anything personal on it, just with IG.
Accept that you're doomed to use IG because it's with those 'IG people' and no others you want to spend your time with? I like to spend time with people reading books, it's kinda expected we indeed read books. Would I not like to read, I would not spend as much time with them.

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

2€/month

🇫🇷❓

[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I suppose you're asking if I'm French? Yes. And, yes, it's a French operator (Bouygues Mobile)

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yea we're pretty much the only country that has cheap mobile plans like that

[–] troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

0€/month for me. :-)

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How 👀

[–] troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It’s a 2 € plan with a 2 € discount because the mobile operator is also my home internet provider. So 0 €/month.

And it’s my one and only mobile number, not an extra one for crap content. The plan only includes 50 MB of (4G) data per month, and I have to pay extra if I go over it, so barring emergencies I’m only using wifi — but I don’t mind not having access to internet everywhere and all the time, I find that healthier in a way.