I don't remember where I saw someone yelling at people for having carrd.co pages, but hear me out:
No:
Putting personal information on your carrd;
Putting things that can be used against you in your carrd if you are going to have your carrd linked in unsafe places (I'm looking at you twitter);
Putting things like your face on your carrd if you're a minor and/or don't have photos of yourself anywhere else.
Yes:
Using you carrd like a mini personal website;
Getting creative with your carrd layout now that social media has 0 costumization options and is all boring and sterile looking;
Sharing your interests in your carrd so that it is easier to find like-minded people to befriend;
I think some of us are looking at carrds like someone having some weird sense of unwarranted self-importance. We are looking at it completely wrong. Carrd (and similar websites) are basically the only even vaguely popular pseudo social media we have left besides tumblr, where we can personalise our space. Everything else is under the control of the company that owns the social media we are using. We're lucky if we can pick the accent colours.
We're not given spaces to describe ourselves as people anymore. The "About Me" sections back when I was a teenager used to have insane character limits so that we could express ourselves however we wanted. We could put whatever we wanted there. We chose what was put there and in what order. We had entire playlists filled with our favourite songs that people could listen to shoved in there! That's actually how I discovered JRock! Costumization like this was how and why I learned HTML, CSS, and expanded my knowledge on graphic design!
Now? There's a box for everything. Your age, your gender, your pronouns, your location. Sometimes, we're forced to share information we don't want to share. I deleted Facebook over a decade ago when they started forcing users to use their real name on their accounts. Both first and last. I never put my full real name online, and I wasn't going to let some dull little social network to force me into doing so.
The more I hear about the decentralised Internet as a way to make social media personal and actually social again, the more I support it. Personal websites, giving people the freedom to decorate their online space however they want and express whatever they want about themselves without being stuck to a dropbox of options, Little circles of websites who share similar interests and ideas, personal blogs where people can talk about whatever they want, the end of popularity contests with likes, follows, views and whatever other dull statistics that have become so important to us as human beings that they have a monetary value to companies looking to sell us useless crap. All this makes me want this aspect of the decentralised Internet to become a reality more and more.
So make your carrd or similar. Share your interests and passions. Decorate it with the things you love and the things that make you happy. Be unapologetically you. The Internet is too boring, and these dull beige mom social medias need to go. As long as you're staying safe when it comes to personal information or where you share it if you have things there that can be used to harm you like you triggers, you're good!
And to the person that complained about carrds and said they'd never read anyone's carrd, wherever it was I saw that: That's honestly your loss buddy. You're missing out on seeing people's creativity and possibly making new friends who love the same things you do.
