Is it weird to not have a social media presence

[Maxmars]

So is being a private person and not posting on a social media site using your real identity considered 'odd' or 'weird'? I don't think so, but I am elderly and don't feel the need to share with strangers. I do, however, share much with my family and friends, privately.

What if posting what I ate for lunch for all to see doesn't do it for me? Or sending hugs for all to see which I can do privately to those in my love orbit via my phone texting, again privately.

Is it considered 'odd' that anonymous strangers would congregate on discussion forums for the purpose of having discussions while still remaining private? I think not because people in your orbit can't be everything to you as they are living their own life and pursuing their own interests. People in my orbit are busy and can't spend hours with me discussing UAPs.

I can say I mostly do not have a social media of my true self or presence or I don't put my true self out there to strangers because I don't need strangers to validate my life in any way.

I think many people don't just plop their life and opinions online the way we would when gathered with people in person.  

In fact, when looked at from the starkly mocking position of "dots on a screen" one can be almost certain that among the folks you come across are people "pretending" to be the way they 'could' be except real life won't let them be that way...

But this is I think largely because we people never had such a 'social' environment to explore before this...
"virtual" interaction was never before possible.

But we also have an imperative to "be" with, among, or simply along side other people...

Presumably the same reserve you hold onto has to do with not embarrassment, but honor.

My late wife always seemed resistant to my 'expressive' ways online.  But she knows that I am, if nothing else, careful, just not enough for her. 

I rarely offer up information that people can abuse... even if they think they can... (kinda fun, sometimes.)

Long ago, I learned that people who live in 'reserved image' mode often damage their own freedoms by 'reserving' the things that make them precisely who they are.

There will always be an element of trust in speaking to one another, it is an unavoidable...
Everyone is sharing the risk... such as it can be in a virtual world.

I speak freely, because I find the risk a matter of perception only.  Thus, it is strictly "imagined."

We are an imaginative lot.

I will miss that very much...

The wherein and how of it's perpetuity are beyond my imaginings...

But I will always have a little faith...
... it's a side effect.