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Does anyone else hate it when friends make posts online openly commenting on their sex life with their partner?

 

I don't even consider myself as being sex repulsed. But I have come to realise that it's one of my biggest pet peeves.

 

Do people really need to be quite so open with their friends and family? Or do they just get a kick out of doing it?

 

I honestly don't know. From my point of view though I think there are some things which should be kept private 🤔

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Social media just encourages poor boundaries in general. People are more willing to say things online than they would in a room full of their friends and families. It’s socially sanctioned exhibitionism. Facebook in particular seems to be a cesspool of terrible boundaries/exhibitionist word vomit.

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2 minutes ago, Xenobot said:

Social media just encourages poor boundaries in general. People are more willing to say things online than they would in a room full of their friends and families. It’s socially sanctioned exhibitionism. Facebook in particular seems to be a cesspool of terrible boundaries/exhibitionist word vomit.

Yeah. You're probably not wrong there. Any excuse for people to air their dirty laundry or get involved in other people's problems.

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7 hours ago, Xenobot said:

Social media just encourages poor boundaries in general. People are more willing to say things online than they would in a room full of their friends and families. It’s socially sanctioned exhibitionism. Facebook in particular seems to be a cesspool of terrible boundaries/exhibitionist word vomit.

Absolutely, and not just in a sexual context.

I don't have social media accounts, but I read some social media "passively". For example there is a facebook profile* "Russian fifth column in Poland" - well, about unmasking covert Russian influence. And the author admitted that he's an amateur and that truly dangerous agents and spies are much more difficult to discover** because "they don't practice all this internet exhibitionism where it's enough to read everything and you know who does what with whom".

 

*Btw, using facebook for writing blog-like content is very problematic by itself. What must a blog absolutely have? In my opinion: archive!!! And on facebook you keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling if you want to read some old entries...

**Still, the internet may harm security in other ways than just through social media exhibitionism - all kinds of data may leak into the internet or even never get protected although they should. This example will be considered rather fortunate by people opposed to Putin's Russia: Bellingcat recently showed how the Russian military secret service has probably allowed a major security breach by letting cars be registered to its address in a public database. The downside: I'm sure that someone at the GRU follows Bellingcat and will discover their blunder, so they will know what to avoid in the future... ;)

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I know precisely one person who does that, and it's very easy to ignore. Scroll on by and it's gone. Like anything else on the internet that one finds distasteful.

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I'm on Twitter, and whenever I get new followers, I go to their page and find out more about them. One of the most recent ones was, well, shocking. I went to their page and scrolled down, and it was filled with graphic videos of sex. 

 

Uh, I didn't realize that a user could post the equivalent of porn on Twitter... 

 

I didn't comment or anything. I just decided not to follow this person back. 

 

A short post about someone's private life doesn't sound so bad after this, LOL! 🤣

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13 hours ago, CBC said:

I know precisely one person who does that, and it's very easy to ignore. Scroll on by and it's gone. Like anything else on the internet that one finds distasteful.

I usually do the same. Just makes me cringe thinking they've probably got family on their friends list.

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12 hours ago, Just Dani said:

I'm on Twitter, and whenever I get new followers, I go to their page and find out more about them. One of the most recent ones was, well, shocking. I went to their page and scrolled down, and it was filled with graphic videos of sex. 

 

Uh, I didn't realize that a user could post the equivalent of porn on Twitter... 

 

I didn't comment or anything. I just decided not to follow this person back. 

 

A short post about someone's private life doesn't sound so bad after this, LOL! 🤣

Yeah. I mean I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with people talking about their sex lives.

 

But there is a difference between talking to a close friend and broadcasting it to your entire friends list.

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On 11/18/2018 at 3:44 AM, janiejones said:

But there is a difference between talking to a close friend and broadcasting it to your entire friends list. 

That's it. Someone doing such things must have problems with understanding what is privacy.

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On 11/19/2018 at 6:29 PM, Nowhere Girl said:

That's it. Someone doing such things must have problems with understanding what is privacy.

Yeah. Either that or they simply just don't care what other people think which again I do not understand 😂

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