[ExI] openness on the internet, was RE: Destructive uploading.

spike spike66 at att.net
Tue Sep 6 03:48:34 UTC 2011


>... On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson

>...Perhaps the youngsters will be more willing to participate in the hive
mind. After all, they are already sharing things on Facebook that would have
mortified me.  -Kelly


Isn't it amazing?  I don't know what to make of that.  People in cyberspace
seem so very self-accepting of everything, so un-self-conscious, so free of
any emotion I would call abashedness, so sure that regardless of their own
faults, it isn't their fault.  The attitude seems to be whatever they are is
shared by countless others.  I have seen people spill to the whole world
such intimate details about themselves, apparently with zero concern about
repercussions.  In my own misspent youth, most people would never in a
million years confess to their closest friend that which is today freely
spilled into the public domain forever and ever amen.

How did that happen?

I am not objecting, nor saying it is a bad thing, rather the opposite.  Just
wondering why.

spike




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