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I personally dislike social media as well, but this is really over the top. Social media has advantages. That's like saying never tell anyone your name or anyth

I personally dislike social media as well, but this is really over the top. Social media has advantages. That's like saying never tell anyone your name or anything about you - sure, it could at some point be used against you, but humans are still social creatures.

_dain_ 5y ago
That isn't over the top at all. "Don't tell anyone your name or anything about you" is good advice for online. I think extremely carefully before I do post online under my real name. I think it's crazy that people don't. IRL interactions are strongly bounded by geography and the frailty of human memory. Online isn't. The difference is scale and persistence. Our social intuitions aren't calibrated to it. It only takes one deranged person to ruin you, and that person might be on the other side of the planet, and might not even have been born yet.
- sodality2 5y ago
  Sebb767 is referring to "don't tell anyone your name" in real life (ie, cop stop).