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I find the whole premise of this article a bit weird. It starts with "Good news". Why is it automatically good news that educated people use social media less?
by thetrb 11y ago
I find the whole premise of this article a bit weird. It starts with "Good news". Why is it automatically good news that educated people use social media less?
I'm a German living in the United States and find this part of German society pretty annoying: Being super careful about anything that could potentially encroach on your privacy (for example see the fate of Google Street View in Germany).
- a3n 11y agoThe good news was the level of education.
- thetrb 11y agoOh yeah, sorry, I missed the part of the text between the 2 images.
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoWhy is being careful about your privacy annoying?
- mhurron 11y agoHow dare they not spew everything in public for all to see.
- singiht34-02 11y ago"(for example see the fate of Google Street View in Germany)" and b/c you can't find everyone easily on facebook
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoI am not sure if that answers my question. >I'm a German living in the United States and find this part of German society pretty annoying: Being super careful about anything that could potentially encroach on your privacy In the case of Google Maps, I understand that a non-functional application might be annoying and at least Google makes some effort to blur data. But in my reading of the original post, the poster is annoyed that the German community at large has decided to exercise their rights to privacy.
- thetrb 11y agoIt just seems like a national pastime to post as little information about yourself or anything you're associated with anywhere online at all. As an expat that it makes it hard to stay in contact with many people. It's everybody's right to do whatever they want with their personal information, but in Germany it often gets to a point where you're being judged if you yourself decide to post something on a social network site. It also leads to all kind of weird regulations from the government (again, see Street View as an example or the more recent EU-wide regulation of a minimum age of 16 to open social network accounts).
- thatcat 11y agoPeople elsewhere see it as good news because these concerns are overwhelmingly dismissed in most other cultures.
- fwn 11y agoGermans do happily register every change in their adress to a population register ("Melderegister"), which is also required by the law. This data can (and will) be sold for profit by the administration and an opt-out is only for a limited timeframe. Germans don't care at all about stuff like this. Instead I bet they would be outraged if a US based company did the exact same thing.
- wolfgke 11y ago> Germans don't care at all about stuff like this. No, this is not true. Me and my circles openly disgust that. Only because there is no public outcry doesn't mean they don't care. But indeed it's rather the younger generation that cares about these topics.