That annoying trend on social media!

[MissterDog]

I get those kinds of comments on my instagram about daily or every other day LOL. I think instagram is just the world's largest compilation of people who think they know everything, for some reason especially prevalent in the reptile community.

It's especially detrimental since the advice they give is incorrect or inaccurate, which is 95% of the time. If another new keeper sees their advice and follows it, they're only putting their animals at stake. All in an attempt to look knowledgeable on the internet!

Haha I was thinking about your Instagram and astonished how many inexperienced people assume you're a newbie and volunteer their informative tips and advice on a snake they don't even own. Also agree with you that this new trend is potentially dangerous because anyone who doesn't know better will think that person is educated and experienced.

Which most of them just don't understand and get all defensive with "it was just a mistake!" Or "I was just expressing an opinion!" when they get called out for it because they can't take any accountability for their actions and how what they say can be interpreted by others.

[MissterDog]

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...

I don't know why but I noticed cohabitation is extremely common on Instagram?? Like way more than I've seen anywhere else and I wonder why? It's almost unbelievable! Worst I've seen were six ball pythons in a big wooden arboreal viv with no hides.

However a ball, a beardie and a corn snake???? I think that takes the cake! Wow

[Starscream]

Guess I'm not popular enough to get those kinds of people lmao. Good thing, too; I'd probably just get sarcastic and start some kind of internet fight.

[MissterDog]

I will never understand people who try to give advice on species that they have no experience with. Or like you said, people who don't even own a reptile. My knowledge is limited to ball pythons so I would never dream of giving advice on other species.

When I first got my ball, I had several friends (with exactly zero experience or research) try to convince me that I have to feed in separate feeding container otherwise she will bite me whenever I stick my hand in. The same friends tried to convince me to feed live because it "has more nutrients than frozen and is more natural". Sigh...

Gooooosh. Yeah, let's tell someone how to look after their snake based on some random thing they heard or read somewhere in their distant memory because that's good enough information to preach about without fact checking.

Amazing. I really hate how common this is and how stubborn people are about it. Ugh I hope your friends stopped!

[MissterDog]

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.

Oh gosh this. They magically think 15 minutes of internet counts as astronomical amounts of research and they can start making their own rules without a solid foundation.

[MissterDog]

Guess I'm not popular enough to get those kinds of people lmao. Good thing, too; I'd probably just get sarcastic and start some kind of internet fight.

This is a blessing lol. I think out of all internet fights the ones on Instagram and YouTube are the dumbest you'll ever encounter. They always seem to dissolve into "I'm not mad YOURE MAD".

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Sadly you will always have people that have owned 1 snake for a few weeks and that will try to school you (I encounter my fair share of those )

The difference with social media, everything goes and everyone is an instant expert, on forum not as much because forum are tight communities and there are ways to keep people like that in check and accountable.

[Zincubus]

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.

Pinterest is my bugbear... I'm only on it as my daughter uses it but I find it annoying as there are hundreds of snake photos but so many are photoshopped with the amazing colour schemes .. many claiming they are the real colours !!

Aghhhhhhh !!!!


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[Zincubus]

Pinterest is my bugbear... I'm only on it as my daughter uses it but I find it annoying as there are hundreds of snake photos but so many are photoshopped with the amazing colour schemes .. many claiming they are the real colours !!

Aghhhhhhh


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[Zincubus]

Pinterest is my bugbear... I'm only on it as my daughter uses it but I find it annoying as there are hundreds of snake photos but so many are photoshopped with the amazing colour schemes .. many claiming they are the real colours !!

Aghhhhhhh


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Also Instagram

Now this may be genuine or just touched up but this is a dullard compared to the crazy colours I see regularly


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