For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

  • MudMan
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    6310 hours ago

    Social media killed online aliases and I have a hard time deciding if we’re all worse for it.

    Instinctively I still stick by that, though, as you can tell by my anonymous profile with no bio, but when I volunteer any amount of personal info these days people are often confused that I’m not sharing openly who I am or where I’m from. Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.

    • CharlesReed
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      Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.

      And now it’s come 180 in that some see it as a red flag if you don’t give up that information. I had someone on a different social media site accuse me of being a bot because I wouldn’t give up the specific town I’m from. I’ve seen it happen to others too. It is both fascinating and insane how viewpoints have changed regarding identifying yourself online.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      6 hours ago

      Shit, I provide every single service with randomly generated data, unless legally required. Just doing my part to pollute the training data.

    • @[email protected]
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      339 hours ago

      in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.

      a/s/l?