What is the difference between someone who likes to post on Reddit frequently, and a chronically online Redditor

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1. You think that because someone account is signed in that they haven’t stepped away from the computer?

2. About 80 pounds.

3. Chronically online is more than just posting a lot online. It becomes a giant chunk of your persona. Every belief and thought is connected to the internet. Either by deriving it from it or validating it on it. Like if it was taken from you, you become vulnerable.

4. Very fine line. You’re walking on thin ice there, buddy.

5. Posting or not, it boils down to the amount time you’re sinking into Reddit as a platform. That’s the difference; time, as well as self control.

6. Roundness

7. Chronically online = deriving your worldview by social media posts and becoming somewhat inept in real life situations.

   Here’s a rather harmless example: someone on r/books saying they can’t read a book because tiktok said it was problematic and they don’t want to be problematic. But because they want to read the book, they ask another social media website (reddit) for permission.

   They put so much personal stakes in what some randos say on the internet that they can’t do something they want to do without permission from *other* randos.

8. one has a job and one doesn’t

9. Context. If the majority of your experience with other people is from Reddit, that’s a huge problem. If you have a life outside of Reddit, and just happen to be there a lot, you’re just a heavy Reddit user.

10. So, like, if I don’t know the person you’re describing, does that mean it’s me?

11. Frequent Poster: You post frequently on reddit.

    Chronically Online: Your whole worldview is shaped by what you read on the internet, and you assume that everyone you meet thinks/acts like a chronically online person. You’ll shape your opinions, beliefs, and personality based on what some whackjob on the internet told you to.

    All chronically online people are frequent posters, but not all frequent posters are chronically online.

12. Their opinions, usually. The chronically online are often very out there, loud, aggressive, and will never deviate from the hive mind. r/redditmoment has quite a few examples of that.

13. How often do you use Reddit lingo in your offline life?