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Do you ever notice on social media how there's an image that's portrayed most people aren't real on social media? 100%. And that's okay. I try to be pretty real, but there's things I don't share because I don't feel like it unless I get to know an individual or I just feel like doing it. Sometimes I share more than I thought I would share. But it's interesting
I don't want to spew my guts out on social media, at least the traditional ones. I feel like, swells, a bit different, obviously, because we're talking like human beings. But on Instagram, the people that glimpse into my life there, they don't need to see every aspect of my life. They don't need to know every little thought that I have. But there's other people where it is literally just an open book
Brandon Novara
@theaveragejoe · 1:53
And I'm not putting people down that are open books on social media if that's how they want to live their social media life or their life, I'm okay with that. That's their prerogative. I'm not judging. I just think that when you make a drastic change like that and I've seen it, I'm dealing with it too, with somebody that I know currently is going through some issues, pretty big issues. I feel like you don't have to do that
Finley Ave
@finnave · 2:31
And I have been an open book. When I was on social media, I left last summer and yeah, so far I don't want to go back like at least Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, all that. But swell, I enjoy. I joined like a month or two, I don't even know a while ago
Brandon Novara
@theaveragejoe · 2:54
And I'm sitting there thinking to myself, we're having conversations late at night on the patio discussing our future. Meanwhile, you're going on Facebook, literally, word for word, narrating what we just talked about. And then it kind of made me think. And then when I've seen people who I know have been in a bad situation and like, you brought up domestic violence, I've witnessed that
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