That annoying trend on social media!
I've been noticing this a lot more often. It's always bunch of kids brand new to snake keeping and having the need to jump in and educate people how to look after their snakes, but have zero knowledge or experience with the species.
The more unfamiliar they are with the species the more vocal they are on how the keeper should look after said species because they think all snakes are fed the same and make very generalized assumptions about husbandry.
I noticed this has become much more common on places like Instagram especially. Probably wouldn't annoy me as much if they didn't try to get all preachy and give random (and incorrect) advice that the original posters never asked for. Or my personal favorite; they don't even own a reptile.
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i just find it hilarious that brand new keepers on insta immediately try and turn every post into some type of "informational" or "educational" post, like their one lived experience and one other internet post they found invalidates decades of researching this hobby, and they now know everything.
today i saw someone post "who says snakes can't share? blah blah" or something like that with a photo of a TINY baby bearded dragon in a bath tub with a ball python. clicking through their page they proudly share they have the dragon, ball python, and a baby corn snake all living in ONE ~50gal enclosure.
WHAT.
it took everything in my power to just move on...
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If I could give you a thousand thumbs up for this Misster, I would.
Absolutely 100% annoys the hell out of me. What's ironic is a lot of the care instructions they reference have been written and refined over years on sites just like BPnet. After 15 mins of reading, everyone is a self proclaimed expert.
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Bogertophis
I'm so glad I don't use social media...I've heard this before & it's really a shame that they give/get bad info when there's forums like this around that
can really be helpful...:( I feel bad for their animals mostly.
....you'd be surprised, some of that bad advice occasionally crosses over from new users who think they have learned everything
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KevinK
....you'd be surprised, some of that bad advice occasionally crosses over from new users who think they have learned everything
Sadly, I wouldn't be all that surprised. :rolleyes: