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This right here is why I just lurk on social media. There are too many examples of a forgotten offhand remark, a harmless off-color joke, or that one time you
by stalfosknight 5y ago
This right here is why I just lurk on social media.
There are too many examples of a forgotten offhand remark, a harmless off-color joke, or that one time you had a bad day and thought you were just venting to the handful of close friends who are the only people you think even know about your Twitter account coming back many years later to bite you in the ass when a future potential employer (or goodness forbid the media) decide to go spelunking in your personal social media and essentially treat that version of you from 11 years ago as the same person you are today.
Twitter makes it way too hard to mass delete old tweets or otherwise exercise fine control over whats on there.
With social media, the only way to win is not to play.
- josephorjoe 5y agoCompletely agree. The last warning I needed was one time >10 years ago while listening to a song I really liked I just posted one of the lines from the song on facebook. A friend of mine saw it and assumed it was a commentary on a political event that had happened that day (it wasn't) and assumed that it meant I held a certain political opinion because of this (I didn't) and then was suspicious of my claims that posting the song lyric meant nothing more than i was enjoying the song and felt like sharing. Since then I always assume anything I reveal online will be taken out of context and held against me, if not immediately, some day...