>> "We're basically at the point where nearly any mistake can destroy the rest of your life." I think in the past people could make these 'mistakes' in private

>> "We're basically at the point where nearly any mistake can destroy the rest of your life." I think in the past people could make these 'mistakes' in private and nobody would ever know. We're giving up more and more of a privacy and even if you 'have nothing to hide' you could very easily make a 'mistake' eventually. I think it's inevitable that in 50 years, when people have grown up without privacy and with making embarrassing mistakes in public people will be much more likely to forgive as they have their own errors publicly available.