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It's interesting how that changed within one generation in many cases. Millennials started using the Internet when conventional wisdom was to not use your real
by Reedx 8y ago
It's interesting how that changed within one generation in many cases. Millennials started using the Internet when conventional wisdom was to not use your real name online. Don't reveal your age or location. Don't post your photo. Use an anonymous name.
We went from that to the complete opposite.
- rhn_mk1 8y agoThe internet from 10 years ago was also less likely to remember everything you do forever. Messaging between friends happened using services that didn't save conversation history server side, public chat rooms including IRC were rarely logged, blog posts had a minimal reach, and were largely pseudonymous anyway, making the connection with a real person more difficult. Perhaps this kind of lack of consequences drove people into complacency.
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- gugagore 8y agoIn fact, young me didn't think that websites, mostly forums and early microblogging sites, would ever go away. I wish I could see those posts today. It may be a fabricated memory, but I remember always being aware of the lack of privacy in those services. And never using your last name or sharing your location.
- rhn_mk1 8y agoTrue. I meant to say that websites, while seeming permanent, didn't enforce a connection to more private parts of one's identity.
- basch 8y agoare all your gmail and facebook messages from 10 years ago not still available? I think youd have to go back more than 15 years to get to services where communications are now faded.
- naniwaduni 8y agoNot everything was conducted over gmail or facebook messages. (This is still true, in fact.)
- basch 8y ago>Messaging between friends happened using services that didn't save conversation history server side A lot of messages did.