4 ms·
Doing what everyone else is doing lowers social friction. We're discussing the idea of doing something while a child is young (posting about them online) that c
by pyre 13y ago
Doing what everyone else is doing lowers social friction. We're discussing the idea of doing something while a child is young (posting about them online) that could haunt them later in life. If everyone is doing this, the social friction in the future will be less about having your childhood online.
In this case, the social friction itself is what would be possibly causing issues in the future, so lowering it would be improving the situation.
If you want to reference the Nazis, then it's the same thing. Doing what everyone was doing had lower social friction in Nazi Germany.
- gnaffle 13y agoIf registering your religious affiliation in your identity papers was what everyone was doing, maybe it lowered social friction, but in the long run it caused huge problems for a certain group of people when the government suddenly started tracking them down, and had very good tools to do so. Whether or not this is a good or valid comparison, I think the argument about "if everyone are sharing, nobody will care" is plain wrong. In the right circumstances, it will always be possible to find some nugget of information to paint you in a bad light or cause you problems. Either way, it's going to be very interesting to watch our future politicians lives be completely exposed down to the smallest detail, as it may be 20-30 years from now.