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There is a huge difference between people in your village, that you grew up with, knowing a lot about you, and strangers from halfway around the world knowing t
by thayne 2y ago
There is a huge difference between people in your village, that you grew up with, knowing a lot about you, and strangers from halfway around the world knowing things about your personal life.
- account42 2y agoAnd more importantly the relationship was much more symmetrical - you know about as much about your neighbors as they know about you and for the most part neither has more power over the other. This is not true today where someone who you have never even heard of could be offended by something you said or did and choose to weaponize public knowledge against you.