Tiktok and other villains
Aug. 4th, 2022 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
got_quietI am a child of web 1.0 and am most comfortable in pseudonymous spaces. I am in the process of setting up some semblance of a social media presence for a business, and my god, how can people live like this?! I feel like I'm signing my first born away every time I set up an account on some "platform," and then all the platforms are talking to each other, so if one lets me get away with not giving them my entire life story the next one insists I fill in the gaps. These sites make me feel so gross.
In order to use Buffer to manage posts, I need to be able to link a facebook account to an instagram account, but in order connect the two you also need a facebook page, but if you do that you get harassed to open a wechat account, at which point even though I don't need to give in to the wechat thing I was like fuck this entire noise I'll manage instagram manually, like what the actual fuck. I couldn't figure out how to convince ~~~Meta~~~ that the page and the instagram account had anything to do with each other anyway.
And tiktok also requires you to download the app to be able to finish registration. And the app wouldn't recognize my password, but also wouldn't recognize that I was registered to send me a password reset. So like... wtf? So I guess that email account is now permanently locked out of using tiktok? And it appears I can't log in any other way because I have adjust settings to allow that. And then it turned out it had just completely restarted the registration on the app so I had two separate incomplete registrations going.
It ended up taking me hours just to get the basics set up. And weirdly enough it was pinterest, which is its own sort of devil in how it has grown like kudzu over search engine, was the only service that was a simple one and done affair. I don't know how I feel about that given how much I detest pinterest.
I know this may make me an old person who can't deal with the times anymore, but why can't we just go back to coming up with a random username, a remarkably insecure password, and being done with it? Why all the loopholes? (This is a rhetorical question; I know the answer)
Fuck web 2.0. For real.
In order to use Buffer to manage posts, I need to be able to link a facebook account to an instagram account, but in order connect the two you also need a facebook page, but if you do that you get harassed to open a wechat account, at which point even though I don't need to give in to the wechat thing I was like fuck this entire noise I'll manage instagram manually, like what the actual fuck. I couldn't figure out how to convince ~~~Meta~~~ that the page and the instagram account had anything to do with each other anyway.
And tiktok also requires you to download the app to be able to finish registration. And the app wouldn't recognize my password, but also wouldn't recognize that I was registered to send me a password reset. So like... wtf? So I guess that email account is now permanently locked out of using tiktok? And it appears I can't log in any other way because I have adjust settings to allow that. And then it turned out it had just completely restarted the registration on the app so I had two separate incomplete registrations going.
It ended up taking me hours just to get the basics set up. And weirdly enough it was pinterest, which is its own sort of devil in how it has grown like kudzu over search engine, was the only service that was a simple one and done affair. I don't know how I feel about that given how much I detest pinterest.
I know this may make me an old person who can't deal with the times anymore, but why can't we just go back to coming up with a random username, a remarkably insecure password, and being done with it? Why all the loopholes? (This is a rhetorical question; I know the answer)
Fuck web 2.0. For real.
