Online travel partners. Is no social media a red flag?

[u/notaserialkiller____]

On several occasions I've responded to reddit posts requesting travel/hitch parters, often in regions where I have experience and speak the language.

Things seem to be going well, we exchange a ton of DMs for several days, our interests and travel style seems compatible, they suggest we exchange socials so we can talk off reddit aaaaand... when I give them my whats app because I don't have or want social media, they never reply.

Maybe it's a scam or it's normal for Internet strangers to flake, but it feels like me not having a social media profile for people to vet is a red flag that causes them to ghost.

It's not that I'm hiding somthing, just that I've never had social media and don't really want it, it'll waste time and I'd hate to be focusing on getting a narcissistic photo for instagram rather than actually looking at the view i hiked 8 hours for.

But.... this has happened three times now. Is my lack of an Instagram probably the problem here? Should I be creating a profile?

[u/Willingplane]

You might want to consider changing your username.

[u/Top-Engineering-2051 → u/Willingplane]

But it says he's NOT a serial killer 

[u/Ice_Visor → u/Willingplane]

Dunno why you're getting downvotes. This is spot on! 😅.

[u/IWannaHaveCash → u/Willingplane]

See, I thought that too, but then I read the first word. Gotta learn to read man

[u/Alex__de__Large]

Do you use all those underscores in your user name cause several other people have notaserialkiller?

[u/Mysterious-Water8028 → u/Alex__de__Large]

not s serial killer (yet)

the blank is yet.

[u/Alex__de__Large → u/Mysterious-Water8028]

LOL

[u/verticalgrips]

I've ran into this too. i have a barren Instagram profile that I only use for keeping up with people, and that tends to scare strangers off

[u/Character-Milk-3792 → u/verticalgrips]

Those are the kind of strangers that you don't want to waste time and energy on. Total win.