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Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

484 points · 257 comments · simonpure

  1. nyargh · · focus · HN ↗
    Discovered my kid doing exactly this years ago. We purposefully limited all social media, locked dowb devices etc, but life uh.. finds a way.

    I was impressed, just had the standard talk about how you have to assume everything you put out on the internet never goes away and that you really have no idea who is on the other side of the screen, never share personal information, etc

    Now they are older and are on ridiculous group chats with their friends. Pretty impossible to control tbh. At least they keep me up to date with the latest memes!

    1. bityard · · focus · HN ↗
      > everything you put out on the internet never goes away

      I've been thinking about this quite a lot recently as I've been trying to dig up information about 90's era dial-up bulletin board systems. It was a scene I was deeply immersed in at the time (or at least, one specific niche within it) and there is surprisingly little information left which is easy to find now, 30 years later. I remember the web being awash in more contemporary technical minutia than I could read in a lifetime. Now, the vast majority of it seems to be flat-out missing or at least very well hidden/distributed.

      I think it is more accurate to say, "everything you put on out on the Internet _might_ never go away." Because my experience has been, a lot already has.

      1. walthamstow · · focus · HN ↗
        I regularly mourn the photos of my early teens that were on MySpace and no longer exist anywhere
        1. SauciestGNU · · focus · HN ↗
          Same, but at the same time I'm glad data about me from that period of my life no longer persists.
          1. mrheosuper · · focus · HN ↗
            There is non-zero chance it's on the tape sitting on the shelf in some unknown warehouse.
            1. SauciestGNU · · focus · HN ↗
              Rip my dignity in that case lol
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