Is it weird to not have a social media presence

[putnam6]

I have worked at a few places where it was strongly encouraged to post the company message to your own social media. Nowhere have I ever worked; penalized you for not doing it. Then again, maybe that's because I don't have a social media presence, so I didn't fall within the radar?

Oh yeah, some companies were much less stringent, but 2 or 3 over the years tried to micromanage it, require specific pics and verbiage

It's not as if you had to post every day or week, but they had regular promotions and important dates, that kind of thing. I always hit the important dates and promos, but saw no reason to post just to be posting stuff

I always thought less is more, be useful or memorable

[Sky727]

https://lists.epochdispatch.org/links/61...QIjBISOa0T

Silent Revolution: Why Millions Now Look to Leave Social MediaMillions are leaving the social feed. They’re not rebels, they’re silent revolutionaries.
 Every month, nearly two million U.S. users search how to delete or deactivate a major social media account. Instagram leads the exodus. TikTok follows. Then Facebook. Then X.
 
I find that interesting, as X has the least “social” component to it, if you ask me, whereas the others have a “profile” and a very obvious front-facing social “identity” aspect. All these in digital departure aren’t teenagers having a bad week. These are people—living, breathing human beings, many of them under the age of 25—who have looked at the thing that was supposed to connect them and quietly decided: this isn’t doing what it promised.

[Maxmars]

I always point out to my kids that there is "social media" and then there is "dialogue online."

Two very different things.

When the media reports about 'social media' if refers to the monetized, click-tracked, algorithmically-driven, monitored market of people having to use a branded interface, (a 'vanity' service.)

Somehow that never comes across in their narrative.