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[–] [email protected] 225 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Making posts about how you're not home is bad OpSec.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey everyone! Come fuck my shit up while I'm away! K thanx.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Look at my post history, take your pick of all my shiny things, with pictures of their condition you can scrape to sell them on ebay!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No kidding! Glad someone gets it. A couple I know who Instagrammed their entire cross-Europe vacation last year couldn't understand why I don't want to travel at the same time as them this year even though we're going some of the same places 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well don't leave us hanging! Does their house get robbed every time they're away on vacation and posting about it on social media?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Not yet, but it's not a chance I'd be willing to take. They have at least one neighbor who's supposedly been arrested for theft. He used to watch their dogs for them but when they found out they stopped talking to him and changed the locks.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Personally. I don't consider it a vacation until I'm cut off from everyone and everything. Let me relax in peace for a while, without distractions.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (4 children)

For real. This is the primary feature of vacation.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Spitting facts right there

Hell my favorite places to go hiking don't even have cell service

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you could shitpost on Lemmy but no one was around to upvote it, would you still do it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

You bet I would

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I hate selfies, so whenever I'm on vacation I just take pictures of my surroundings but never with me in it. Once, my cousin wanted to see my vacation pics, so I showed them to him. He then asked why I'm not in any of them. When I said I didn't think it was necessary, his genuine confused reply was, "But how do people know you were really there, then?"

It's really insane out there.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

This is how I take pictures, I take pictures of the things I am seeing so I can look back at those moments later. I don’t experience life in third person, observing myself from overhead like a video game, so why would I want myself in the pictures?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

the neat part is they don't. unless you tell them about the trip. I too only take pictures of my surroundings, with my camera app, for myself, without the intend of sharing more than maybe one of them. unless I happend to put something on a family group chat or something

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have a counterpoint. I used to be the same way but then I realized I just had a bunch of amateur photos of places where professional photos were readily available, basically wasted effort. So now I try to capture the people I'm with in the photos as a way to remember our trip together. This is also great fodder to make photo books for the grandmas.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I don't even take pictures

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Right? I only ever use pics to refer back to certain incidents "like see, on the 8th of December this what happened that day Cindy you fucking liar" and so on

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah my family loves taking pictures. I just try to take pictures of nice scenes and stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago

I would absolutely not go if I had to post something.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (3 children)

are you really vacationing if there is no one to witness it

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

Only if you're doing it right. Witnesses are a problem.

Wait, did you say vacation?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

you are both vacationing and not vacationing until is observed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem with trying to observe a vacation is the amount of light involved. Experiments have shown that applying the necessary amount of light to render the vacation observable often results in the whole thing being called off anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

Sadly, this was a thing even before the web, let alone social media. There’s always been people for whom the vacations didn’t even “happen” unless they get to go on incessantly about them when they come back, ideally subjecting you to two hours of photos that mean very little to you. They derive little enjoyment from actually being there, they take it from showing it others…

For some people life is not worth living without external validation. Sad.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world and I’ll burn my phone and go no contact with anyone I know ever again

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Allrighty, I'll use other request types, like PUT, or just base64 encode and GET it :D

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Someone never cruised before social media was invented and now suffers brain rot. A lot of people actually.

Stare out at a vast expanse of water and think about life, children.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

First, What's a vacation?

Second, I don't post anything on line now as it is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I understand wanting to share pictures of your trip and stuff, but if it's such a compulsive need you wouldn't be able to not do it, you've got issues.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Normal conversation between two humans holding a small black rectangle in front of their faces.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

I'd rather work than to be forced to post something on vacation.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People who don't turn off notifications on their phones be like

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Consider the asker. Y'all have fun with your selfies, I'm going on vacation.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

vacation? that would crazy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Uh gee, for starters don't go around broadcasting that you're not home. Watching your stuff. Do you want property theft? Because that's how you get property theft! You can brag and selectively post all the highlights and none of the lowlights when you're back if you think that you need that to feel better about yourself.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I gave up posting on insta and facebook a couple years ago.

It's been great. I share links to my holiday pics with close family that takes them directly to my chosen FTP site and that works fine

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Take the pictures, post them later

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Eew. That part of the internet is leaking in again.

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