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"Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating deta
by sixtofour 15y ago
"Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7951269/Young-will-have-to-change-names-to-escape-cyber-past-warns-Googles-Eric-Schmidt.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7951269/Young-w...
- danneu 15y agoFive years ago, I started a forum that's since grown really large with a really young userbase. Members I remember as 13-year-olds are now turning 18 and realizing that their pseudonyms can be Googled to reveal 5 years of their awkward youth documented on my forum. I've been getting a steady wave of kids asking me to delete their accounts/posts to start with a blank slate.