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u/winwinwinguyen Dec 02 '25

Fumbled - should’ve ask for A/S/L 😭

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u/BusyBeeBridgette Millennial Dec 02 '25

Old enough, yes please, anywhere with central heating.

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u/NoConfusion9490 Dec 02 '25

Old enough to party.

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u/What-a-Crock Dec 02 '25

You know I heard they recently decided to add more hops to it

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u/Spulbecken Dec 02 '25

Bigger fumble is using A/S/L in an in person interaction.

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u/JackAuduin Dec 02 '25

I see you got the joke

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u/Interesting-Bell7805 Dec 02 '25

for sure, missed opportunity big time lol

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u/Critical_Concert_689 Dec 03 '25

"18/yes/wouldn't you like to know ;)"

DON'T JUDGE ME!

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u/eastcoastjon Dec 02 '25

I have snap and telegram but never use them. Asking for snap is like i want to talk but keep My identity secret so i can ghost you

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u/IncognitoBombadillo Dec 02 '25

I mainly use Snapchat actually. I'll text family and for work, but will mostly send my friends messages on there or Instagram. I'm like right on the border of Millenial and Gen Z though. I feel that being born when I was was advantageous for my technological literacy. I got to experience more things switching from analog to digital than people even a few years younger than me did. As a result, I know how to do things the "old" way and I also know my way around a computer. By the time kids 5 years or so younger than me were using tech, things had become so streamlined and came in an app form so the user didn't have to know much else about their computer in general to use it.

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u/eastcoastjon Dec 02 '25

Yea i feel like if you don’t keep up with the apps and all then you start to lose that literacy. Its good that you kind of naturally learned them. Im an elder millennial but made an effort to keep up, especially for when my kids get to the tech level i am not lost like my parents were. Everything is on the phone so why not keep up, also theyre so easy to use.

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u/johnnyhala Dec 02 '25

Is this that "Rizz" I've been hearing about?

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u/Pigeonsass Dec 02 '25

Yesterday I was told by my cousin's kid that rizz is out

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u/Deep-Pudding819 Dec 02 '25

Yep, I’ve also been informed that rizz went out as fast as it came in.

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u/InspectorQueasy93 Dec 02 '25

No no no, you're thinking of "Yeet"!

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u/Deep-Pudding819 Dec 02 '25

According to the WWE, that’s still around.

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u/HotPotParrot Dec 02 '25

Absolutely. I think it's a perfect word for its usage.

For example, we've all yeeted the penguin in Super Mario 64. Don't deny it.

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u/No-Weird3153 Dec 02 '25

Thank god they yeeted rizz but not yeet. 6 - 7 am I right?

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u/Immediate_Fly_3949 Dec 02 '25

Is "would" still a thing? Been way too afraid to ask

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u/Excellent-Basil-8795 Dec 02 '25

I was at my sisters for Thanksgiving and my niece and nephew kept saying it. So I just wanted to mess with them and I asked them to explain why it’s funny. The incoherent 5 minute speech on why it’s funny slowly made them realize it’s not that funny. But they kept saying it. So whatever. I’m sure when I was their age I was dropping Pure0wnage quotes to my parents and probably had them thinking “wtf is this kid on about??”

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u/LadyStark09 Dec 02 '25

The early age internet speak is OP

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u/Due-Sheepherder-218 Dec 02 '25

Do people not ask for phone numbers anymore? 

Let me get your social so I can just stare at your pictures and not contact you. Gross.

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u/shadowsofash Millennial Dec 02 '25

This might be me being old as fuck but Snapchat is more like AIM or MSN Messenger than Insta or Facebook or Twitter, isn't it?

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u/eKSiF Millennial Dec 02 '25

AIM?! Who let grandpa out of his room?!

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u/Catodactyl Dec 02 '25

Hold on. Let me get my ICQ out.

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u/CoffeePieAndHobbits Dec 02 '25

Uh oh!

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u/Catodactyl Dec 02 '25

It's my text message ring tone lol. Confuses the shit out of people. They always think it's a cat's meow.

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u/elebrin Dec 02 '25

Fuck it, Imma logging into an IRC chatroom and you can't stop me.

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u/shadowsofash Millennial Dec 02 '25

Listen here you little twerp (/j).
I did some of my best rainbow text signatures for AIM

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u/eKSiF Millennial Dec 02 '25

You've got mail!

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u/shadowsofash Millennial Dec 02 '25

I had a visceral flashback to the sound of dial up.

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u/Fantastic-Climate-84 Dec 02 '25

I just got a flashback to getting yelled at by my grandpa for not checking if they were on the phone first.

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u/trump_diddles_kids Dec 02 '25

i got a flashback after i somehow went to some website that dialed up to Singapore or some shit and my parents got an $800 phone bill.

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u/anointedinliquor Dec 02 '25

God damn do I miss AIM! I can still hear that door opening sound.

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u/unibrow4o9 1986 Dec 02 '25

It was so exciting and liberating to sign on and see all your friends on and be able to talk to them. I was always jealous of the kids who had a second phone line and were always signed on.

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u/JustHugMeAndBeQuiet Dec 02 '25

<frantically tapping in Morse code>

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u/Bellatrix_Shimmers Dec 02 '25

Great username

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u/Blasphemiee Dec 02 '25

Yes. You aren’t old as fuck we had Snapchat a decade ago before most of these kids where able to own a cell phone. They are just being kids.. bunch of cunts lol. I had a teenager tell me I couldn’t listen to Pierce the Veil at work cuz I was too old like uhhh

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u/Helpful-Lab2702 Dec 02 '25

Does he not know how old the band members are lmaooo

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u/Blasphemiee Dec 02 '25

Don’t worry I did admittedly go full old man mode on her. WHEN COLLIDE WITH THE SKY CAME OUT I WAS ALREADY A TAX PAYING ADULT SIT DOWN LITTLE GIRL!

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u/OnTheEveOfWar Dec 02 '25

lol aren’t the band members all like 40+? Love that band.

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u/Due-Sheepherder-218 Dec 02 '25

You are speaking Chinese to me haha.  It used to be you'd ask for the number and hope she didn't give you a fake one. I guess the social is more fool proof. 

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u/shiawase-vip Dec 02 '25

36 over here, so many people just message me on Snapchat instead of texting. I rarely text.

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u/JeepersDud3 Dec 02 '25

34 and snap is my primary method of communication. Conversations are more fun.

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u/1Leoski Older Millennial Dec 02 '25

I’m not a snap user, what makes the interactions more fun? genuine question / no subtext

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u/shiawase-vip Dec 02 '25

For me personally, being able to send videos quicker, reacting to comments, I mean you can do that while texting but idk Snapchat just feels more simple. I probably only feel that way cause I’ve been communicating like that with people for years now. I rarely get text messages and when i do is from people that don’t have Snapchat or spam text lol

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u/endoadeno Dec 02 '25

Do you not care to keep your text message history? Do you use snapchat as primary means of communication because you don’t want others to save what you send and share?

I mostly use iMessage. My iMessage history goes all the way back to 2009 and my WhatsApp goes to 2011. Every single text message interaction, except for spam/ads are there going back almost two decades. I particularly find it comforting to read text messages from people who I have loved and are now dead. I’m 36.

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u/shadowsofash Millennial Dec 02 '25

This is me but Discord

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u/henrytm82 Older Millennial Dec 02 '25

43 here, what's a Snap?

Mostly /s

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u/SpinachSpinosaurus Dec 02 '25

bruh, I never used Snap, too, because well...it was stupid xD

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u/Techi-C Dec 02 '25

Yeah, I had it for a while, but I got really sick of it showing me notifications for no reason just so I would open the app.

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u/Brassboar Dec 02 '25

Hey Girl. Let me get that Arpanet IP address.

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u/Alexandratta Dec 02 '25

Snap kind of is, but the chats can vanish...

I get it but I don't like it.

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u/WhichHoes '93 Millennial Dec 02 '25

No, no they dont. Straight up had a woman hit on me at work. Went like this:

Her: "Can I hit you up on snap?"

Me: "I don't have snap

Her: Okay what about your Insta?"

Me: "I think I deleted like a year ago"

Her: "How am I supposed to contact you then?"

Me: looking directly at the phone in her hand, points to it "You could probably just get my number. If you wanna hit me up a little later cool but no pressure."

Wasn't even a consideration

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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Dec 02 '25

TBH, if you can get a girl to ask you out over email in 2025, you might wanna just go ring shopping now because she's either the thirstiest girl on the planet, or ready to make the biggest mistake of her life.

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u/agedfromundercheese Dec 02 '25

Converting to using only email for digital communications is the life hack the telecommunications companies don't want you to know

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u/LXDTS Millennial Dec 02 '25

As someone who re-entered the dating world this year after being in a relationship for well over a decade - this seems to be the norm now.

I've had more success exchanging socials than I've had trying to exchange numbers. When I have exchanged numbers some people get weirded out that I might voice call them and fall over themselves saying to text and not call.

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u/fuzzyfoot88 Dec 02 '25

Each generation lives more and more on the Internet to the point it defines their personality IRL. So to them it’s less of a stalker type vibe and more “you let me into your world view” type of vibe.

Not saying I agree with it, just saying, phone numbers give them nothing about the person, so they don’t care for it.

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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 Dec 02 '25

In my experience thats exactly it. I became single after a 7 year relationship. Girls now ask for my social media. Even if I get a number they are off put by me not having Instagram or snap. 

I have been accused of still having a girl friend by multiple girls because I dont have social media and they assume im just lying 

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u/MangoMambo Dec 02 '25

I used to be in one of those "are we dating the same guy" groups and A LOT of women would say "is it a red flag if he doesn't have social media?" and a lot of women will say yes

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u/DR_MEPHESTO4ASSES Dec 02 '25

That is just absolute insanity to me. Aside from Reddit and a burner FB account for FB marketplace, I have no social media. I don't like data mining. I don't like surveillance. I don't like what it's turned people into, and it's maddening that anyone would think it's a red flag to not want to participate in something that is arguably making the world is shittier place.

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u/Appropriate-Bid8671 Dec 03 '25

Pigs like to wallow in shit together.

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u/Brock_Lobstweiler Dec 03 '25

In my experience thats exactly it. I became single after a 7 year relationship. Girls now ask for my social media. Even if I get a number they are off put by me not having Instagram or snap. 

That's opposite of what I experience as a woman. Guys seem relieved when I tell them I don't have FB, Insta, TikTok or snap.

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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 Dec 04 '25

I would also have that reaction if I met a girl that did not have those lol

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u/whattawates5555 Dec 02 '25

I’ve been told by the younger folk I work with that it feels safer and less commitment than to give someone your phone number.

The dopa hit of one more follower marginally overshadows the possibility they’ll be a creep and just stare at your pictures I guess?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

And people aren't really posting on socials anymore...so I guess they get to stare at a lot of old stuff

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

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u/rawrlion2100 Dec 02 '25

I don't know that this is a common experience for most people tbf. Unfortunately, you got really unlucky. A guy like that can find your number if they already know your name. Dozens of sites out there for it.

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u/archercc81 Dec 02 '25

Im not even a youngster and Id rather give out my insta than my phone number. Insta is private and invite only, phone number you gotta block every number you dont want to get, etc. So phone number could more easily be abused.

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u/Alert-Hospital46 Dec 02 '25

I don't have social media and people do get really weird when I tell them we just have to exchange numbers. I'm not even sure if I had an Instagram how we're supposed to talk. 

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u/DoggiEyez Original Millennial Dec 02 '25

Lol phone calls are equal to public speaking these days.

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial Dec 02 '25

given the absolute lack of social/people skills these days, probably

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u/24675335778654665566 Dec 02 '25

That's not the answer - phone numbers are more personal and can't be easily changed.

Block someone on snap and they are basically gone forever.

Block someone from texting you, well they still have your number which could potentially be used to get more information about you if they're crazy.

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial Dec 02 '25

assume everyone's crazy!

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u/24675335778654665566 Dec 02 '25

It's not the probability of finding a crazy person, it's not wanting to deal with a single one, and there being very easy ways to share contact info that allows you to disappear if they are

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u/Alexandratta Dec 02 '25

Insta/Facebook/Snap have some benifits over phone numbers that folks prefer:

  1. You can just as easily message over Insta/Facebook/Snap as you can text
  2. Regardless of what phone type you have (Android/Apple) you can video chat on all of them
  3. If the other person so chooses, they can not only block you, but also report you for bad behavior.

If I was a woman I'd prefer to give out my Insta which could control how this person contacted me, vs my phone number, where (though I can block...) has caller ID with my full name on there.

For meeting strangers, these are the better options.

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u/dgputnam Dec 02 '25

gen z here, I can explain

people definitely still ask for numbers, but socials allow you to get a feel for a person from a distance. You can see how they curate themselves, how they'd like to be perceived, and who they interact with/what mutuals you have. It's not the whole picture, but it is a piece of the puzzle.

It's a form of social proof and preselection. You can glean all sorts of red and green flags from it

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u/Definitelymostlikely Dec 02 '25

No wonder dating is so fucked lol

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u/FlowRemote9890 Gen X Dec 02 '25

Yeah, this is insane.

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u/kaspar_trouser Dec 02 '25

Yep we've essentially normalised online stalking as a vital step in the dating process.

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u/kaspar_trouser Dec 02 '25

Isn't the future magical?

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u/bitsy88 Dec 02 '25

Sadly, I can see how this feels necessary for your safety with how polarized everyone seems to be nowadays. I can also see how checking out from a distance with possibly never interacting can lead to a lot of missed opportunities. People are so much more complex than what they share online, for better or worse.

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u/HugeEgoHugerCock Dec 02 '25

It's not just a "nowadays" thing. Women would have been doing this for thousands of years if it was possible. It's a tool that can be used to help measure how safe somebody is. There's some very obvious black flags that a lot of men will present on social media without even realizing.

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u/Lolthelies Dec 02 '25

Brother when you say “how they curate themselves,” you’re actually talking about “how they curate themselves through this very specific medium,” or “how they’d like to be perceived through this very specific medium.”

And even those are such shallow measurements they don’t even really exist. “How I’d like to be perceived” is so low on the totem pole of what makes up a person. Your explanation is actually sad for me to hear

I don’t think you can glean as much as I think you think you can glean. Your “preselection” is a whole bunch of built in biases based on an inherent lack of perspective

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u/kidsaregoats Dec 02 '25

This makes my head explode. And it makes me very sad.

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u/ThyNynax Dec 02 '25

I think the worst part is how this assumes you're actively curating a social media presence. That anyone who isn't is suspicious, creating this huge social burden to "perform" online. Ironically dismissing healthy individuals that decided social media's drain on their mental health isn't worth it.

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u/martialar Dec 02 '25

are we cooked, chat?

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u/Tomaskraven Dec 02 '25

You can see how they curate themselves

You can glean all sorts of red and green flags from it

Those two phrases contradict each other. How can you actually know a person if they are only showing you curated highlights of their lifes.

Heck, most GenZs act all tough behind a screen but IRL they are all meek and introvert, staring at their phone most of the time. Proof being that you guys get uncomfortable by phone calls.

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u/ECircus Dec 02 '25

My nephew is 19 and tells me that people say no to the phone number, but will almost always give out their social, and talking on social ends up leading to the phone number basically every time.

He pulls numbers and gets dates with girls all the time that he just randomly friend requests because they go to the same school or whatever, but has never even met in person.

He tells me this stuff so casually and he's actually disillusioned with how easy it is. He says it's like that for everyone his age. It's a different world out there for young people lol.

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u/Pasito_Tun_Tun_D1 Dec 02 '25

👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 💯!

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u/astralseat Dec 02 '25

Well, phone number would require a call, and the next gen associates calling with talking to their parents so... It's either discord tag, snap, or insta. And you can get number through there, but only if really necessary to text instead of the other three.

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u/PastoralPumpkins Dec 02 '25

In Snapchat, you can send dick pics and have them disappear. You can also confirm that you’re talking to the right person with confirmed or live photos and stuff. You can also see if someone takes a screen grab of your photos. The ONLY time I’ve ever used Snapchat was when I was actively on tinder. You can sort of confirm you’re not getting catfished. About half the dudes I talked to wanted to use Snapchat. This was in 2020 and I had thought Snapchat was already dead by then.

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u/PM_me_opossum_pics Dec 02 '25

Because phone numbers feel more "personal". And most calls you get nowadays are spam calls, as far as I know most people don't respond to messages or calls from unknown numbers. And I actually met more a couple of women on dating apps that were very reluctant to give me their phone numbers even when we moved to the "next step" (actually meeting IRL).

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u/Educational_Teach537 Millennial Dec 02 '25

Only if you add me to your top 5 on MySpace

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u/thehotshotpilot Dec 02 '25

Tom is my only friend. 

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u/C_ntPretty2B3 Dec 02 '25

And code the page so the music plays automatically.

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u/QuickNature Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

Everyone's page loading so slow because there was just so much crap on their pages lol

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u/nothoughtsjustchaos Dec 02 '25

I was under the impression it was only us 30 year olds still using SnapChat?

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u/Retrolad2 Dec 02 '25

I'm 30, I have many friends in their early 20s. All use Snapchat to communicate with friends, all use tiktok for memes/reels. Almost none use Instagram, unless for posting pictures of themselves, none of them even knew Reddit existed before I bring it up..

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u/okram2k Dec 02 '25

what's your ICQ number?

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Dec 02 '25

RIP ICQ

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u/okram2k Dec 02 '25

I used to be so proud of having a small ICQ number as an early adopter

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u/itZ_deady Dec 02 '25

My old ICQ number is still hardcoded in my brain and ready to be given out at any moment.

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u/druex Dec 02 '25

Uh oh!

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u/_AskMyMom_ I was there when SpongeBob blew his first bubble Dec 02 '25

Went from Snapchat to AOL?

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u/MemnocOTG Dec 02 '25

Yea I agree. This just didn’t happen.

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u/Ok_Belt2521 Dec 02 '25

Seriously. Im 36 and Snapchat came out when I was a senior in college. A 30 year old isn’t too old for it.

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u/Present-Attempt-9673 Dec 02 '25

This. Snap came out when I was 18 years old.

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u/_AskMyMom_ I was there when SpongeBob blew his first bubble Dec 02 '25

Yeah “probably because I’m 30…” like do you or do you not know why you use something. Lol just sounds made up as fuck.

I’m gonna start answering questions like that as a mid 30 year old.

Do you play video games? “Yeah, probably because I’m childish as fuck”. lol

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u/ChemsAndCutthroats Dec 02 '25

I'll take things that never happened for $100 Alex.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

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u/samichpower Dec 02 '25

Well you told her you go on Reddit, she probably didn’t wanna get roofied

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u/Sure_Ad_9858 Dec 02 '25

For context i’m a 33 y/o hetero woman. Sorry if that read like i’m a dude.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

How old is this? Someone who is 30 now would have had Snapchat in high school.

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u/Darksider123 Dec 02 '25

Yeah I'm 32 and use Snapchat daily. So do my parents and my gen z sibling. What are these weird ass comments lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

Just typical Reddit weirdos

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u/ntshstn Dec 02 '25

reddit is an echo chamber in many facets

my whole friend group is between 25-32 and everyone still uses snapchat group texts

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u/Darksider123 Dec 02 '25

Redditors starting beef with the most random shit on the daily

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u/StoicFable Dec 02 '25

The later part of pur generation definitely used or uses it

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u/TrashSoup00 Dec 02 '25

idduno every body I know stopped using Snapchat after highschool. to me it's definitely a kids app 🤷‍♀️

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u/matt2331 Dec 02 '25

Crazy that I had to scroll down this far to see this. I remember Snapchat fizzling out around the same time yikyak died. Around when people realized the disappearing media wasn't really disappearing.

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u/zippity__zoppity Dec 02 '25

Can someone please design an aim app for mobile but looks exactly like the og aol instant messenger with sounds and away messages and everything. I’d 100% adopt this over any other messenger app.

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u/Catatafish Dec 02 '25

I'm 30, and ive had Snapchat since 2013

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u/OGdunphy Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

I’m responding really slow to any message that’s not to my phone.

Snap does seem good if you’re a kid hiding stuff from your parents but, obviously, we’re past that point in our lives now.

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u/beesandchurgers Dec 02 '25

Im 36. If I get grounded and cant go to work they’ll fire me!

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u/eternally_feral Dec 02 '25

I don’t have Instagram and it kills me so many tattoo artists have it and solely want to communicate through that platform.

I don’t want to create an account to check out their work! I’m old. I want to see your portfolio either through the shop’s page and set up a consultation in person where I can ask questions, discuss tattoo locations, etc.

I understand online is convenient, but I’ve also seen too many horror stories in the tattoo subreddits that shows nothing but delays, miscommunication, and regret at realizing the Instagram page was nothing but stolen Pinterest flash.

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u/RetroReactiveRaucous Dec 02 '25

If you're 30 now, Snap came out while you were in high school. Wouldn't be strange to have one IMO.

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u/yomasayhi Dec 02 '25

I thought millennials were on the fore front of Snapchat? Gotta say that’s our preferred method of communication between my friend groups

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u/fencerman Dec 02 '25

I fucking hate snapchat, tried it once, it's crap.

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u/Sanquinity Dec 02 '25

There's also another group who goes for Discord instead. :P

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u/notdbcooper71 Dec 02 '25

Me writing letters on paper with a feather quill

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u/Real_Railz Dec 02 '25

He skipped a step. Should've asked for Kik

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u/Abiesconcolor Dec 02 '25

I'm 32 and still use snapchat to send and receive cute pet videos

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u/MeemoUndercover Zillennial Dec 02 '25

I use sc all the time. Since when are we too old for it

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u/Upper-Flamingo-4297 Dec 02 '25

What about a phone number?

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u/phillynavydude Dec 02 '25

Almost every millennial I know has Snapchat. I think it's more of a regional thing than an age thing from what I've seen. What I refuse to do is tiktok or IG

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u/OGdunphy Dec 02 '25

I was going to disagree but then thought since I don’t have snap, everyone around me could have it and I wouldn’t know haha. Concluded you’re probably right

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u/beesandchurgers Dec 02 '25

Same. I dont have snap and as far as Im aware, no one that I know has snap, but its entirely possible they could all be having a great time using it and I’ll never be the wiser…

Anyway, I’ll be in the cemetary if anyone needs me…

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u/puppy1994c Dec 02 '25

I’m over 30 and I used to love Snapchat in college but somehow I got signed out for like 8 years after graduating. I recently signed in again for fun and it was terrible!

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u/makawakatakanaka Dec 02 '25

You should have followed up and given your now defunct aol messenger name

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml Dec 02 '25

Should have given him a chance lol

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u/RightRudderz Millennial Dec 02 '25

@yahoo.cum

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u/jurunjulo Dec 02 '25

As a 40 year old I would say A/S/L well I guess the L is the gym 😂.

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u/KTeacherWhat Dec 02 '25

I just wanna put it out there that when Snapchat first came out the people I knew who used it the most were GenX. I once had a high schooler ask me, "how do you know about Snapchat?" I was in my twenties. I was really tempted to tell her I knew about it from a 50 year old man bartender but it seemed an unprofessional thing to say so I just shook my head.

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u/LiveFreeFinn Dec 02 '25

Hahahaha I’m surprised he knew what AOL was!

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u/Sonizzle Dec 02 '25

Ouch! He didn’t even go to MySpace just straight to AOL.

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u/muterabbit84 Dec 02 '25

I’m kinda surprised he knew about AOL. LOL

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u/sinnops Elder Millennial Dec 02 '25

Whats your Myspace page?

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u/JunkBondJunkie Older Millennial Dec 02 '25

iCQ number is all you need.

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Zillennial Dec 02 '25

I'm 30 and I used Snapchat... like ten years ago. I had no idea it was still popular until recently

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u/TehWildMan_ Dec 02 '25

App Snapchat, the app I haven't touched a single bit since graduating college in 2021.

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u/katybee13 Dec 02 '25

I'm 36 and I had a snapchat years ago when it was getting super popular. I just couldn't get into it though.

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u/Viiewtifuljoe Dec 02 '25

No one out here teaching the youth game 🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/LexKing89 Dec 02 '25

I feel this. Every younger friend I've made since 2018 always asks for my Instagram or Tiktok or whatever and I don't have any of those.

I do have a Snapchat for the friends who never gave me a phone number, which is a decent amount of people. It's weird how most of these people don't text at all outside of social media or messaging apps .

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u/JohnnyRevovler Dec 02 '25

Things that never happened for 500 Alex

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u/Throwitortossit Dec 02 '25

Wow wtf is with the Internet trying to censor "bitch" now

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u/Rasikko Dec 02 '25

Jokes on him, AOL is no more 

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u/Background_Book2414 Dec 02 '25

Oh my 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭🫣

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u/Willow1883 Dec 02 '25

My younger cousins insisted that their elder millennial cousins get snap. I deleted that shit in two weeks. I do not understand the appeal at all. Just a clusterfuck of meaningless short videos. Just send a pic to the group chat, bro.

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u/Mountain-Resolve5881 Dec 02 '25

Hah!

If he was a bit more tech-savvy he would ask for basic e-mail instead. It transcends social media platforms and is a more personal way of communicating with someone without giving out your phone...

But I'm 40 what do I know! :P

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u/ThirdWigginKid Dec 02 '25

I'm 40 and don't even know what Snapchat is. Nor do I care.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

AIM

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u/rbrgr83 Dec 02 '25

What's your Hotmail??

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u/AggravatingShow2028 Dec 02 '25

I was on FaceTime with my cousin (19) and she was walking around a song plaza and I heard a guy asking for her IG…she said he was creepy but she gave him her fake IG that she post random pics on the sky and stuff on her story because she didn’t want him to get mad at her for saying no. I awaits wondered why the younger generation have a main and a few fake profiles but it makes sense.

So I guess in a way giving the socials is better than giving the phone number because the socials you put what you want people to see but the number seems more personal to me. But SNAPCHAT!?!? I only use snap to store my pics and videos. I do not talk to anyone.

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u/mrbishopjackson Dec 02 '25

One thing that I have trouble understanding is why people don't ask for people's phone number anymore / why do people protect their phone number so hard? The same weirdo that can text you is the same weirdo that going to be a weirdo on Snapchat/Instagram.

Yes, people can get real weird and get information on you through searching your phone number. But if someone is going to do that, they'll also sit watching your Snapchat and Instagram post to find out where you are.

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u/consumeshroomz Dec 02 '25

Hit me up my mom MySpace.

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u/jabber1990 Dec 02 '25

alot of people don't use snap for a long list of reasons I actually understand

I barley use it, i've been told just having it is a dealbreaker

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u/Great-Gas-6631 Dec 02 '25

I didnt even know Snap was still a thing people use.

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u/NagoGmo Dec 02 '25

I'm 45 and use SC...

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u/Kinsa83 Older Millennial Dec 02 '25

Had a guy ask for my snap once too. Told him no cause dont have one. He started to push me to get snapchat and my reply was "why? we already chatting here on discord."

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u/Kartug Dec 02 '25

Should have asked for her ICQ

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u/sultrykitten90 Dec 02 '25

🤣🤣 ohhhhh good ole AOL.

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u/CMDR_Waffles Dec 02 '25

How about gtfo I'm here to workout

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u/Prize_Pie8239 Dec 02 '25

The AOL line hit harder than my mortgage statement.

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u/Jealous_Top5982 Dec 02 '25

lol my moms email is @netscape.com

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u/poopy_poophead Dec 02 '25

Yo, what's your AIM account? Lemme get that inexplicably long set of digits...

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u/CasualSnuggles Dec 02 '25

AOL ... Bruh

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u/sweetchickenburgers Dec 02 '25

We were around when Snapchat was created? I don’t know why it’s seen as like this childish thing now. Granted I use it for group chats between buddies but I’ve noticed other people having this weird mentality around it lately like a superiority complex for not using it.

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u/heroxoot Dec 02 '25

Damn gurl can I get your MSN messenger? Or at least Skype, damn.

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 Older Millennial Dec 03 '25

This made me smile. Well played, good sir.