• cook_pass_babtridge@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Please don’t do this. One of the best experiences about university is meeting new people. Don’t cut people out of your life because they use the wrong chat app.

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        1 year ago

        If one of their relatives had cancer, it would be belittling that experience. I would not do that unless I wanted to be a dick.

        • Link.wav [he/him]@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          Ok this is a fair point. But saying an app is bad because it doesn’t respect its users should cause no hard feelings between friends.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve met like 5 people more during my university studies, none of which I kept in touch with after graduating. I kinda regret it but I’m not really a person that makes friends easily (or at all), so whatever. I had different friends outside of that.

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      1 year ago

      No, do that. Fully legitimate to choose friends with similar values. If privacy awareness is a big thing for you, do that, really. I survived college without installing Discord. It did bar me out of many groups, but I still had a fairly large circle of friends. I guess Germany is a bit different regarding privacy awareness among younger people, though.

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      1 year ago

      I could not wait to end university, so that I can stop using big tech products. Unfortunately people only use products they are familiar with. If they are always on facebook, they use that for groups. Good luck finding a local community uses anything but facebook groups.

      Edit: at university, many pieces of info reaches you informally. If you are not talking to classmates, you might miss important news as well.