memes

A distinct lack of "drugs/degeneracy" category

I'm proudly in the "obsessed with work" category (organizing working class unions)

Cant disappear from social media if you really weren't there to begin with.

Though i fall in the bottom left corner, always training, though not for something. Training just to train more.

Proud member of the bottom right. Oddly, it has made me a big topic of conversation among my friends, and I don’t get that at all.

You know, for about a decade, everyone was pushed to share everything they did on social media. It was a mistake. It was a mistake on the scale of cigarettes and smoking inside and in airplanes and in hospitals and in schools. No one thought it was a stupid idea, and a lot of people pushed it as the only way to get jobs and show you're a clever chimp that can internet so hard because interneting hard was the cool new thing.

Lower right is the hangover from that. Anyone I didn't find or didn't find me between 2008 and 2018 wasn't ever worth connecting with. The people that did find me were nice to hear from once, and we haven't talked ever again, despite being connected, for 10+ years.

My grandparents and their parents, etc. went their whole lives never seeing people again and not knowing what happened to them because they moved one time and they didn't know their new address. Whole movies were about that. Elvis had a song about that. The last episode of the first season of The Real World ended with everyone moving out of the apartment, and once that landline and address no longer went to those people, it was 100% possible that those people would be gone from each others' lives forever.

Y'all, we're not supposed to collect and keep 27,000 casual contacts throughout our lives. It's unnatural. Our brains are not built for it. We're made to have a few dozen up to 100-ish close connections that mean something, including family you don't pick.

Email some old friends you don't text with daily. Send anyone you truly care about an email to say hi. If they respond, then great. If not, don't worry about it. Enjoy high fidelity communications with those who mater to you.

Friends?

No, I must disagree. Most of my friends are right in the centre. Many are starting families, but are also working on careers and are well intentioned gym goers who I speak to less and less because life is too busy.

I know a guy who is three of these things. Goes to the gym 6 days a week, works in a hospital, starting a business, has a wife and a kid, and he still manages to have time to hang out once or twice a week. Man is as successful as I am not

Here I am going strong in the bottom right!

This could be funny if it wasn't such a sad outlook on life.

The disappeared ones. I'm one of those.

I'll tell you what we are up to. We are

Looking forward to being on the bottom right.

At some when people get too busy to be concerned I'll delete my snap and insta leaving nothing behind. I just don't understand why people feel the need to share everything they're doing constantly or how they get upset if you don't have the energy to react to it all.

40s is the same, but one of them is dead

Obsessed with work is the most obnoxious type of person. It’s a validation seeking behavior that I find intolerable.

I'm number four. I mean, I was. Those people have probably all forgotten about me by now.

I'm happily none of the above.

Disappeared can have a lot of dif meanings behind it these days.

Fifth category: Everybody has forgotten about YOU, and you essentially no longer exist.

There's also the "still acting like they're 16 years old" and they're as bad if not worse than all the other cathegories

The "Why is nobody joining my games on X-Box?" answer guide.

you guys still got friends?

Bottom half. You will never hear about my triumphs. They're mine only.

First I started a family and then I promptly disappeared. I still have little to no social media presence. This really the only place I'm active online.

Where's

Work

Come home too exhausted to do anything worthwhile

Sleep

Work

I don't think it falls into the first category because I really don't give a shit about my job. I just have no energy.

I'm the bottom right except no insta, no FB, etc. and only an email address.

I wish I had arranged my finances better so I could live the dream of being bottom right in a nice very functional house in the forest, with enough self-reliance and supplies to last for months and months without poking my head out of my shell.

Bottom right for a few years now, but it really only applies if social media is the only way you can think of to get in contact.

I'm certain I fall into bottom right as the category but I can't tell where in the quadrant I'd put the dot that indicates that I'm actively still on the internet and available to be found but I've dedicated an unreasonable amount of time to avoiding the modern digital culture in lieu of a mock attempt to recapture the late 2000s digital experience. Hit me up in that chatroom or text me on my flip phone, you'll find me by my handle it's the same on every platform.

Bottom left. "Outrun the darkness" group.