I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.
Same! When I moved for a job I realized how different a lot of my friends back home and I were, since we weren't really on social media or big texters. I never had a need for a smartphone till I had a job that required one. I love my friends in my new city, but they really don't understand why I need time to myself - sometimes for a week or longer, especially if shit's stressful. They're getting used to it now so fortunately I don't think they take it personally anymore, but honestly I think Covid taught them more about that than actually listening to anything I said.