On dump accounts: a phenomenon among Filipino teenagers

Bryan Krister
2 min readOct 12, 2023

Been seeing friend suggestions on Facebook and I guess we have yet to think of a philosophy for creating dump accounts, perhaps a very Filipino one that may entail the consciousness of a teenager. This phenomenon demands a closer look. Is the creation of these accounts a channeling of male libido or whatever, that if left repressed one’s existence is rendered incomplete, if not problematic? Is there more freedom in the dumpsters? Is there more freedom in chaos, in unregulated, albeit informal, settings like the dumpsters? What then constitutes freedom; and is there a correlation between it and the creation of dump accounts?

Is there more freedom outside the order of things (i.e., outside the status quo, free from the eyes of the public, and so on…)? Is there more freedom right outside the box (i.e., man is born free, but everywhere, he is in chains…)? Is freedom right inside the box, the status quo, the order of things, or freedom is more guaranteed when one is on his own terms, hence the dump accounts connecting with other dump accounts?

What if the dump accounts are a bold statement of teenagers that they wanted to be seen as physique-obsessed, high-in-libido, in-need-of-validation individuals, or in short, as they think as they really are?

More, since teenagers are too young to be exposed to and know the horrors of this life, their dump accounts merely serve as a platform to channel their childhood and childlike behaviors, all of which are given more than enough room for errors and deletion later on, as if there is no amount of seriousness in them.

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Bryan Krister

Hi, I'm Bryan Krister. I studied BSEd Communication Arts-English and am uploading my compositions here as a hobby. The topics that I write about vary.