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.
1.0 ratio is the low bar, leech
the rule should be that you don’t use your name until you’re like 35 and understand how to use it properly
The first rule of usenet.
Don’t believe everything you see. Actually I was taught that about TV, but for some reason the old folks forgot about it being applicable everywhere in life, not just on TV. They also forget about it on TV too.
Don’t be a dick.
Stay anonymous
Don’t get into stranger’s cars, and don’t give out your real name or number or address on the internet.
Now you do most of these things when you call an uber. 😅
Technically so did you when calling a cab. Name, number and location
Sure, but there’s no verification when calling a cab so you can use an alias if you want.
Never click an ad
It’s easy for people to understand with banner ads but sponsored links seem to trip them up.
I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.
This was back in the early 2000s…
I was taught to cite websites by using the date the page was updated. Now I’m lucky if web pages even have a date on them.
Either that, or the page says that it’s been updated in the last month, but the content is about how to connect to the World Wide Web ‘(WWW)’ with a free AOL floppy disc
Oh, that one’s easy! Just use the internet archivenevermind.
Never disclose any real personal info.
the Internet never forgets
this one goes both ways, if someone is doxing you, it’ll be online FOUR FUCKING EVER, but if it was a cool website/funny meme/ good software, it’s probably on somebody’s downloads folder, but it can easily disappear and you’ll never see it again.
Typo: /FOUR/FOR/s
no, 4 is the exact number of evers.
I am desperately trying to find a video from last week but I’m very likely am never going to see it again
I’m guessing you also had it on your screen, then when you unlock your phone, it showed for just enough time to recognize it, but not enough time to react and open it to play it, then facebook or youtube auto reloads you to the homepage without warning.
It was a 30 minute long video, I watched it last week. I searched and searched in my PC and phone youtuve history but can’t find it.
It had a bit about how every part of a supply chain is trying to leverage its position for dominance, and that this shape the end product
Nothing that happens on the internet matters.
I mean… I feel like this could still apply 😅
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 and every time someone does that it weird me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
Facebook tried that shit with me. Ban until I sent verification of my ID so I sent a paystub photoshopped (badly) with my alias, it was accepted and it’s still there even though I left FB years ago.
I wish they would ban me. I haven’t logged in in over 15 years and even block several of their servers, and yet I still get mails that someone in there commented on something.
Oh I get zero notifications, but the only real reason I haven’t taken it down is that my posts from IG are cross posted there for the business, which I have to have to advertise our specials because of the boomers that use it daily.
in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
a/s/l?
Aight, I put on my robe and wizard’s hat.
RIP bloodninja.
We were all 18/f/cal come on man…
Haha true
Not only telling your real name, you weren’t supposed to tell your real birthday, give away your phone number or where you lived, even just saying the city was a bit much. So filling in those things like on Facebook or LinkedIn feels very wrong but it would be even more wrong to have fake info there. So my new rule is, only add ppl I know irl to places I use my real info and everything else can I add anyone to.
Ugh, the world of “branded people.” Everything is like “Add a picture of yourself, or you won’t seem trustworthy!”
Yeesh. Some artists and such can make it using a pseudonym, but it’s rare in more professional circles…but now if you hope to be taken seriously as a professional, you’re expected to put your real super genuine self out there.
…and we get news stories of people being harassed and doxxed literally to death. It’s crazy…
Yes that picture thing happened multiple times at my old job. They kept pestering me about give them a pic to add to the “about us” page and I had to use my face in all channels (jira, slack email and so on) because “otherwise I can’t tell who is who”… my current job handled that much better, they asked for a pic (if I wanted to) to be used as reference for an artist (always the same) to make an avatar and that is now the avatar my coworkers and I use in presentations, systems, emails, webpages anything, we never use real image of our coworkers unless the person wish for it.
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.
Shit, I provide every single service with randomly generated data, unless legally required. Just doing my part to pollute the training data.
This shit’s still true. I bet you’re taking me seriously as you read this and everything.
(Except other dogs, and we meet every night on irc:#awoo)
Me too, thanks.
