Raptorpat

then when you go in, tick off 'enable status updates'

I think the best way to do that is to do it naturally like they did

So I have to admit upfront that I don't have an Instagram and I'm not sure how the number correlates, but I currently have shy of 600 "friends" on Facebook made up of several different social groups (high school, college, law school, various internship programs and jobs, family, online weirdos, etc.) as I developed since like 2007. Each social group kind of began with the low hanging fruit and grew outwards as the social network matched friends in common. On the Twitter side (which might be more similar? I don't know if Instagram is mutual friending or solo following), it kind of began that way but stalled out at 48 followers because I have no reason to use the account without followers and I have no reason to build followers because I don't use it. Basically to get 500 people to follow your account, they need to see it and be interested in the content. The only surefire shortcut is to know 500 people who say "hey that's Appa, I'll follow them", otherwise you just have to post content for people to look at, and find a way to get people to go to look at the content, and build up followers naturally. But is online follower count a real measure of social strata that college-age folks take seriously?

Do you mean like you want to get like a bunch of random people to follow your account to make it look more fleshed out, or you want to skip to it being fully fleshed out?

just fyi expect gifts

I think I joined Feb 28, 2004

bib

There's a "profile settings" button on your profile page, I went in and enabled it for you so you can post your things right on your profile feed.

we had aim, yim, jim, tim, the list goes on

We weren't supposed to give out personal info. I'm not sure how Turner Legal decided emails were no go but instant messenger handles were ok.

that email address died like at least two or three times from inactivity i remember @InsaneFoxhad to like get permission to post the email, i also remember @DBZ4everwas a trusty reporter in the latter era

no, that was horrible not only was it tedious as heck, but legitimate people would have to wait for one of us and they wouldn't get a notification - there are a bunch of people who probably fell in that trap and never came back

they pop in faster than I can whack'em and updating the bot protection would require $$$

i was gonna say something about bleeding the system but... yeah.

I've always found the idea of world-building like this super interesting, but I've never been able to follow through - any time I've tried, I'd start envisioning big-picture and then spend way too much time and energy fixated on minor details and then get distracted or lose interest in following through.

what if i like tomato-based products but not tomatoes

raise your hand if you too are skipping and just evolving a swinub you already had

no u

there are no kittens here anymore, a year and a day later. just a whale and a bad kitty

I don't believe we can condition tank promotions based on minutes or other attributes, but I'd have to check again.

Giggity

I think, had I put on actual shoes instead of my slippers, I might have pushed myself to stay outside more than a minute. But with the wind whipping and the snow still all powdery to get blown up into the air I was like 'ehhhhhhh'.

I had to go outside to see the moonclipse

I didn't get a good pic

that is not a mountain, that is a cat