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No. 48553

Does anyone that knows you irl know you go on lolcow? I'm curious! Have you ever told anyone about this website and/or conversed with a friend about a lolcow?

No. 48554

My boyfriend knows and has posted, but anyone else would be appalled.

No. 48555

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God no, it's my guilty pleasure/dirty secret.

No. 48557

>>48555
I've told two people and I regret it so hard. Keep it a secret, you're doing it right.

No. 48558

My BF knows, some friends have seen me on it but don't know how image boards work

No. 48559

I would never talk about any mongolian abacus flipbook to someone in real life. There's no way it would come up in conversation anyway.

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No. 48561

I met one of my friends on lolcow, and that's really great.

I think some of my friendgroup knows I browse, but no one else goes on here.

I think. I have a lot of paranoia, so I'm always freaking out thinking that someone unsavory from my past is on here, and is going to like, post me in the ugly thread or something. It's weird, I know.

No. 48562

>>48561
I feel the exact same way. I'm now trying to keep a very low internet presence because of my paranoia. I never did anything lolcow worthy, but still it crosses my mind often.

No. 48563

>>48562
Same, anon. Same. I don't even post my face online anymore, and I avoid any activities that could make me into some sort of lolcow.

No. 48567

>>48563
I think being on here did me for the better. I feel people who post their face rapidly and have all these open internet accounts are kind of lame. I mean, I understand confidence, but it can be really narcissistic. I used to be like that though. Following an aesthetic is very lolcow worthy.

No. 48571

>>48567
I definitely agree. Some people just let their 'aesthetic' own them. They can't go a day without posting on facebook, tumblr, instagram, twitter.. I don't know, I just find it all to be very self-matsurbatory.

Lolcow has taught me a lot about internet safety. I don't want to see my face on /snow/ one day from a vendetta-chan. I get anxiety whenever there's more than one notification on my facebook, ha. I don't know how I could deal with strangers dissecting my poor life choices.

No. 48575

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>>48571
For sure. Most people who do this claim that "im just bein confident, i slay" but fuck no.. you clearly post a fuckton of photos knowing very well that you are craving likes for reassurance.

No. 48576

My husband knows. I think he doesn't really find all of this as hilarious as I do, but it's fun to talk about together away.

No. 48582

>>48575
Exactly! I get the whole body positivity thing, but there's that and then there's posting 3 selfies per day on your insta (which is 90% selfies and 10% quotes posted out of passive aggression) as if people need yet another reminder of what your face looks like today - because we've clearly already forgotten!! It's just comes off as incredibly self-indulgent and desperate.

But, yeah, lolcow. No: no one IRL knows that I post on here. Like someone said earlier, it's not exactly something you slide into conversation nor expect someone IRL to bring up.

Browsing and posting on lolcow has made me more aware of what I post on my social media accounts for sure in terms of content and of internet safety/privacy. At least, we get to learn from the mistakes of the many lolcows posted on here.

No. 48586

Hell no.
and when I meet anyone in person that seems like a lolcow poster, I avoid them like the plague

No. 48588

>>48553
I've told my ex and a few friends. They haven't found it strange or really cared since most of them browse other imageboards or understand the entertainment value in them. Only one of them was female and she doesn't know or care about what a chan is she just saw me check up on a thread at her house and asked me what site it was and met me with an "aha ok."

No. 48589

>>48576
Yeah, my husband knows too. He started asking questions when he saw me browsing PT threads, lol

No. 48598

My ex knows, but other than that no one else. I do share pics from the fat threads or tumblr threads to some friends though, and get really vague about where I'm getting the pics…

I think if anyone I know found out about lolcow I'd probably just say I "lurk", it seems less embarrassing to say I post sometimes..

No. 48629

Yeah, my girlfriend knows. She doesn't care for the vibe on here, but I'm social retarded and mostly austistic.

No. 48632

>>48586
How does someone seem like a lolcow poster irl? But yeah, that's how I feel when people post 4chan memes on Facebook…

No. 48953

>>48632
A pretentious cunt that gives everyone the stink eye seems pretty lolcow-poster to me.
Bitches need some sun.

No. 48954

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>>48953
You seem like the pretentious cunt.

No. 48956

>>48954
You took my sweeping generalization directed at only a handful of demented tards on this site as a personal attack. Nah.

No. 48957

>>48553
haha no, it's my guilty pleasure and I don't even tell my bf.
I do have some friends who also browse 4chan and we make jokes about it but 4chan is mainstream nowadays.

No. 48958

>>48954
*i do love you for this though anon

No. 48959

>>48957
>tfw I told my bf about the porn boards on 4chan

No. 48962

>>48956
I apologize, I feel initially I felt like I love everyone who posts on this board so much I got upset like nooo yall are the funniest

No. 48983

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Of course not, why would I tell anybody irl about what I post online, unless they're close friends anyway?

All the talk about internet safety worries me though (for you I mean). I never posted pictures of me online and I don't talk much about my private life. The only website where I'm active and not on anon is tumblr, where I mostly post in my first language so it helps me keep some sort of privacy. Were you guys not taught about privacy online? I had a bunch of classes about this as soon as primary school and I still have some of these right now in college. Do you think all the people who post private things about themselves were never told how the internet works? It's s strange to me.

No. 48984

>>48983
American here. It's funny. I remember being told to be extremely careful about what I posted online when MySpace and stuff was a thing (I'm in my mid 20s) and really no one online knew my real name or anything, maybe just vaguely what state I lived in. But it seems like as the years went on, and as Facebook required you to use your real name, and internet life got more interwoven into real life, the whole idea of telling people not to give out personal details online just stopped (except for like, small children). I did see campaigns about not sharing nudes but not much else.

I think most people around my age are pretty safe about not putting too much online unless they are just blatant attention whores. It's the ones about 5 years younger or so who put everything out there like it's no big deal.

No. 48993

My boyfriend knows. If I'm ever smirking at my phone he asks 'which one of my cows am I laughing at now'.

He isn't interested in it himself, though. We coincidentally both used 4chan before we met, so it's not too foreign a concept. He's a /pol/-tard, anyway, so it's not like he's got any moral high ground on my guilty pleasures.

No. 48996

>>48984
That's most likely the reason, you're right. I don't have a facebook and never had, so I'm still not used to the idea.

All of this reminds me that I used to be a lurker on many websites back then before I made a tumblr, but I never made accounts because I was always scared that somehow someone could find information about me and kidnap/rape/kill me. There were always reports of that on the news back then and teacher in school wouldn't stop talking about this. Regardless of how stupid this is, I'm glad we were taught about internet privacy so early because it prevented me from making a fool of myself at the time.

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Yeah, my bf, my sister, and my friend. I think it worries my sister a little. My friend doesn't think its funny, but I dont really care what she thinks, and my bf laughs with me. This place is my guilty pleasure. And eventhough you all talk shit about beauty trends that I actually like, I still think you guys are hilarious.



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