Maybe he means that he doesn't want to find the bad side of a person online and prefers to discover it in person.
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I’m just remembering the loook on a guys face when I told him I wasn’t on Twitter. Almost disbelief 🫢 Me: yeah so .., anyway
The scraps i think he is referring to is "whatever the person wants to throw out to the internet." Whether it's good or bad, it's virtually always inauthentic or incomplete.