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Scrolling through spacehey.
You see profiles with flashing effects, music autoplaying, layouts intentionally chaotic. Then you see users with many, many friends, and it makes me wonder..
Do you actually connect with all those friends or is it just part of the aesthetics of your profile?
It's a free world. I don't mean this as criticism at all, but i find myself questioning things like:
- Is spacehey about self expression, more than connection?
- Are friends here meant to be real or just a number in your profile?
i'd love to read your answers
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Rebeka_Bartmann
I am here to spread love for history and linguistic and the weird stuff. To find people willing to rant with me about latin conjugations and medieval scriptures.
I also believe that knowledge should be shared, and platforms like these are great places to do so. Everyone has at least something they are good at or passionate about. And it‘s ten billion times better to learn from people than Wikipedia page (no hate to Wikipedia, I love it with my all heart).
And to answer your question about friends, no, I don‘t connect with all of them. If a person want‘s to be my friend, I let them, because then you have access to the bulletin. But as of now, 10% of my friends list likes history, likes my blogs and we are in touch. <3
sending love,
XOXO, Rebeka
i love your content !
by Miko cf; ; Report
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many think self-expression makes connections deeper but it isn't necessarily true. self-expression just allows you to present who you think you are, have fun. it doesn't guarantee that you'll connect with someone even if the place where you present yourself is filled with like-minded people(and i am not even about when it's not). you also very likely to find yourself an enemy or even turn off people that you would be fine with otherwise. i feel like many people on here don't want to connect, they want attention, and there's so many tools on this website to get that attention from. many come here cuz they feel that there's more connection on here but connection starts with you and the one you're connecting with, if one side isn't interested it won't work out, no matter how much more "human" the website is
Just checked your profile, nice one !! and congrats for the 1k profile views :) im thinking of doing a 100 views special on mine once i reach it, right now is around the late 70s mark hahah.
I vibe with the part when u said that connection starts with you, i find that so true. I feel like you have to learn to connect with your true self first to then connect with others, to actually find those real, meaningful, deep conections
by Miko cf; ; Report
likewise, idk how i got here but here we are.
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Statiscit 🍉
1. I’d say it’s a bit of both honestly. Self expression because compared to other social media platforms of today, Spacehey is one of the few that offers you a range of customisation that isn’t limited to a profile picture and banner only. Connection because some people here do come to make friends of similar interest and the alike.
2. This is tricky. While there’s plenty of people who are “friend collectors”, there genuinely are people on here who actually interact with each other on almost a daily. Some might even argue the online friendships they’ve had on here feel more genuine compared to other platforms. I’d like to think large friend counts are only valid for accounts promoting music or the such
Its kinda easy and hard ad the same time to express yourself here, although, it must be because im so new still. But i know that if you know a little coding you can basically do whatever crazy thing you want with your profile and i find that really cool.
Do you think of yourself as a friend collector or as a genuine interactor? lol is that even a word
by Miko cf; ; Report
I actually had like zero knowledge on CSS when I first started an account here but there’s plenty of resources online that can help out.
I definitely consider myself a genuine interactor since I do interact with most of the people in my friends list and I’m quick to remove anybody who I’ve never spoken to at all and don’t even post blogs/bulletins
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