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How did posting online change from, "Be careful what you put online!" to many sharing a lot under real names? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know at this point a lot of it is related to money, but there was a transitional time that led to this point that I'm still confused by.

What details changed about online spaces that made many folks more comfortable sharing so much under their real names between the "Be careful!" times to where we are now?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk about anyone else's more liberal use of personal information, but I know for me I stopped caring once it became clear that online privacy is an illusion. Yeah, I could go out of my way to be super private and not reveal anything, but all it takes is someone better at snooping than I am at being private to reveal me. Not that anyone has a reason to in the first place, but I just don't see the point in hiding behind anything more than the carnival masks we are all wearing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a signifignat space between "total privacy" and "share everything".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Plus there is also a difference between being sniffed by some web crawler and a targeted motivated investigation. Just avoid being completely careless with what you share online, set up some an ad and tracker blocker and privacy isn't that difficult.