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I feel a whole lot of repression is going to happen as people learn they can’t even be themselves in their personal life without somehow hurting the feelings of

by ecf 7y ago

I feel a whole lot of repression is going to happen as people learn they can’t even be themselves in their personal life without somehow hurting the feelings of someone they haven’t even spoke to who has the power to get them terminated.

mfer 7y ago
Well, there is private and public then there is personal and professional. It's like a matrix. Things you do publicly have long had the ability to affect your personal and professional life. Public just now has the ability to go global and not be forgotten which is something new. If you post it on Twitter for everyone to see it's not your private life. It's public. This is now paired with a change in attitude. There used to be a tone of forgiveness and to help people. Now when people screw up there are groups looking to destroy them. And, the definitions of what's wrong or a screw up are changing among different groups which complicates things. "Strange game. The only way to win is not to play." -- Joshua / WOPR (War Games)
- ghaff 7y ago
  It would be interesting to look back at how this is playing out from the vantage of 10 or 15 years. I could see an attitude like: - Sure, people do dumb things on social media especially when they're in college etc. No one cares. I could also see: - Those fools. Who is so stupid as to associate their real identity with social media accounts? (Of course, since you can't keep other people from posting, it's a little hard to see this happening.)
ghaff 7y ago
As a counterpoint, I'm not sure things have materially changed in the past five years or so. But I would think that people today tend to have a better handle on the limits of discourse under their True Name. OTOH, there's probably more outrage in the culture generally and probably more people who can rally a supporting crowd for hurt feelings and other arguably trivial rationales.

by ecf 7y ago

mfer 7y ago

Well, there is private and public then there is personal and professional. It's like a matrix. Things you do publicly have long had the ability to affect your personal and professional life. Public just now has the ability to go global and not be forgotten which is something new. If you post it on Twitter for everyone to see it's not your private life. It's public. This is now paired with a change in attitude. There used to be a tone of forgiveness and to help people. Now when people screw up there are groups looking to destroy them. And, the definitions of what's wrong or a screw up are changing among different groups which complicates things. "Strange game. The only way to win is not to play." -- Joshua / WOPR (War Games)

ghaff 7y ago
It would be interesting to look back at how this is playing out from the vantage of 10 or 15 years. I could see an attitude like: - Sure, people do dumb things on social media especially when they're in college etc. No one cares. I could also see: - Those fools. Who is so stupid as to associate their real identity with social media accounts? (Of course, since you can't keep other people from posting, it's a little hard to see this happening.)

ghaff 7y ago

As a counterpoint, I'm not sure things have materially changed in the past five years or so. But I would think that people today tend to have a better handle on the limits of discourse under their True Name. OTOH, there's probably more outrage in the culture generally and probably more people who can rally a supporting crowd for hurt feelings and other arguably trivial rationales.