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.
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.