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Out here in the wide seas of the internet, I’m not sure what the equivalent of those house walls are. They presumably demarcate an expectation of either privacy
by shermantanktop 9mo ago
Out here in the wide seas of the internet, I’m not sure what the equivalent of those house walls are. They presumably demarcate an expectation of either privacy or a clear division between participants and observers. I think those are just private chats.
- PaulDavisThe1st 8mo agoIf it was truly a private chat, there is no sealion. That's why my perspective on this is that it is precisely about the expectation of privacy (even when in a factually non-private context), or as you note a clear division between participants and observers. And that's why I think there's a cohort/age-based aspect to this: early users of the internet never had any concept of privacy in general, other than for email.