I grew up with computers and the internet, i learned from a young age to never click on pop ups, never use your real name or adress, have a burner e-mail, spot a scam and things like that. My friends were pretty much the same, because we all shared knowledge.
When i was 20 or so i went to a friends house whom i only knew for a year. We used his family computer to book a flight or something. I never witnessed such horror. The computer was sloooooow as fuck, and riddled with every virus on the planet. Watching him use that computer was painful. It took like 5 minutes to load a website, in the meantime he was playing pop up pool, played a pop up roulette wheel and looked at pop up ads. It was something i never even imagined, because i assumed everyone would avoid these like the pest.
Same. I was taught that the Internet was for anonymity. You never supplied details from your real life to the internet and largely treated it as a hostile environment. The Internet was cool and full of information but also dangerous. Today I am still a little weirded out by how open people are with their personal information online.
What really gets me about it is that these very same parents that taught us how to safely navigate the internet are now the MAGAts on Facebook posting openly terroristic threats under their legal name and donating to Trump’s scam central.
Like, I could understand if it was the kids who never got taught better. But these people know. I know for a fact they know because they taught ME half my web safety knowledge.
Something in modern society - I choose to blame the news cycle, but it’s almost certainly more - has done something extremely scary to all our parents.
I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say the impact of lead poisoning and micro plastics is way worse than anyone realizes yet. It feels like I am actively watching my parents mental decline and they are only about 60.
I grew up with computers and the internet, i learned from a young age to never click on pop ups, never use your real name or adress, have a burner e-mail, spot a scam and things like that. My friends were pretty much the same, because we all shared knowledge. When i was 20 or so i went to a friends house whom i only knew for a year. We used his family computer to book a flight or something. I never witnessed such horror. The computer was sloooooow as fuck, and riddled with every virus on the planet. Watching him use that computer was painful. It took like 5 minutes to load a website, in the meantime he was playing pop up pool, played a pop up roulette wheel and looked at pop up ads. It was something i never even imagined, because i assumed everyone would avoid these like the pest.
Same. I was taught that the Internet was for anonymity. You never supplied details from your real life to the internet and largely treated it as a hostile environment. The Internet was cool and full of information but also dangerous. Today I am still a little weirded out by how open people are with their personal information online.
What really gets me about it is that these very same parents that taught us how to safely navigate the internet are now the MAGAts on Facebook posting openly terroristic threats under their legal name and donating to Trump’s scam central.
Like, I could understand if it was the kids who never got taught better. But these people know. I know for a fact they know because they taught ME half my web safety knowledge.
Something in modern society - I choose to blame the news cycle, but it’s almost certainly more - has done something extremely scary to all our parents.
I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say the impact of lead poisoning and micro plastics is way worse than anyone realizes yet. It feels like I am actively watching my parents mental decline and they are only about 60.