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> children were always like this however we're in a somewhat novel situation as mistake past will follow you in caches and meme dumps for years and years, wel
by avereveard 6y ago
> children were always like this
however we're in a somewhat novel situation as mistake past will follow you in caches and meme dumps for years and years, well into adulthood.
sure it's comparable to having had a bad reputation back in the days before internet, but you could just escape it by changing town or correct it if your social circle was small enough. with internet, no such luck, getting past one's young self mistake is going to be quite harder.
- yorwba 6y agoThe internet equivalent of skipping town is deleting all your accounts and signing up for new ones, perhaps on other platforms.
- amelius 6y agoThis might be a difficult thing to do, though, for someone who is addicted, and deeply invested in different online relationships.
- avereveard 6y agoyou're stuck at a 199x model of internet social interactions, these company are posing as stand in replacement for personal interactions and as such are trying their hardest (and succeeding, even, especially in the younger population with is the subject of this discussion) in registering people with their true identities.
- yorwba 6y agoThat makes the similarity to physical social interactions stronger, not weaker. Most people live their offline lives under their true identities.
- avereveard 6y agoThe image you phisically project in other people head is a) ephemeral b) local c) not indexed and d) inaccessible from unrelated third parties I can't believe I've to explain this...