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1. nyargh · 1790611878 · 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. SAI_Peregrinus · 1790637270 · focus · HN ↗

      > you have to assume everything you put out on the internet never goes away

      Only applies if you regret posting it later. If it's something you want to find later, it will inevitably have bit-rotted and not been archived.

      1. autoexec · 1790639166 · focus · HN ↗

         > Only applies if you regret posting it later

         Not really. For example, something you posted on social media can easily get you turned down for a job you wanted. You'll never be told that your post is what caused you to lose the job, so you'll never "regret" having posted it, but your life was still negatively impacted by what you overshared. It doesn't even have to still be found online to have an impact on your life. It could be something scrapped once a long time ago by a data broker who used that data to flag your file in some way. Your info can still come up when people request targets matching whatever you were flagged for, even when the original content is no longer online. Even when the internet forgets, data brokers don't.

         1. zerocrates · 1790647988 · focus · HN ↗

            They're just joking that whatever you want, the opposite will happen: if it's something you'd rather faded away, it will stick around. But if it's something you actually want to keep and find again, it will be lost.

            1. busssard · 1790689498 · focus · HN ↗

               Thank you for translating. Reading the comment section of HN is again and again showing that we should never assume the other side understood what we meant.

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