I never figured that one out. I was online as a kid, both on the internet and things prior to the internet, a good bit earlier than most my age. Everything was kept anonymous. I'd have told people online as a 9 or 10 year old to piss off if they wanted anything close to that level of personal detail. I wouldn't even have told them I was a kid. I'm not even sure how much of it I had to be taught by then, because I think like you said you were taught from birth about strangers and random people. I wasn't all that monitored on that stuff either, strangely enough even though my parents were strict in some ways they didn't even attempt to monitor what I was doing on the computer.
Today it seems like there's 6 and 7 year olds going around doing all kinds of stupid stuff spouting out everything they can. Share absolutely any and all personal information on a whim. It's like it's totally okay for it all to be out in the open. Totally a foreign concept to me, I never could get into modern social media as an adult because I'm just not interested in broadcasting my life to the world attached to my actual identity.
I think it has a lot to do with schools pushing stuff like google accounts for school use; it leads the kids to think they don't need to protecy themselves in public.
Kids are stupid. Glad you weren't, but most are, they don't know the dangers, especially if they have a bad home life and are looking for sympathy. Some kids lie about their age all the time to seem more mature, get fake I. D.s, to get in a chat or video or whatever they have to be 18 for. It's not farfetched.
The home life is key to that and something that's all over this thread in general. Parents just tend to suck it seems, and it's been trending in the wrong direction. The stories I'd hear about my ancestors from 100+ years ago with bad parents were at least bad in the direction of they had to figure out how to take care of themselves or starve. Doesn't hurt that in those days I'm not sure there was as much sympathy to be had in the larger world anyway. Now, it seems the bad ones today just coddle their kids so much they never get the opportunity to learn from experience until the shit totally hits the fan.
I never figured that one out. I was online as a kid, both on the internet and things prior to the internet, a good bit earlier than most my age. Everything was kept anonymous. I'd have told people online as a 9 or 10 year old to piss off if they wanted anything close to that level of personal detail. I wouldn't even have told them I was a kid. I'm not even sure how much of it I had to be taught by then, because I think like you said you were taught from birth about strangers and random people. I wasn't all that monitored on that stuff either, strangely enough even though my parents were strict in some ways they didn't even attempt to monitor what I was doing on the computer.
Today it seems like there's 6 and 7 year olds going around doing all kinds of stupid stuff spouting out everything they can. Share absolutely any and all personal information on a whim. It's like it's totally okay for it all to be out in the open. Totally a foreign concept to me, I never could get into modern social media as an adult because I'm just not interested in broadcasting my life to the world attached to my actual identity.
Yeah, just seemed like common sense back then.
I think it has a lot to do with schools pushing stuff like google accounts for school use; it leads the kids to think they don't need to protecy themselves in public.
Kids are stupid. Glad you weren't, but most are, they don't know the dangers, especially if they have a bad home life and are looking for sympathy. Some kids lie about their age all the time to seem more mature, get fake I. D.s, to get in a chat or video or whatever they have to be 18 for. It's not farfetched.
The home life is key to that and something that's all over this thread in general. Parents just tend to suck it seems, and it's been trending in the wrong direction. The stories I'd hear about my ancestors from 100+ years ago with bad parents were at least bad in the direction of they had to figure out how to take care of themselves or starve. Doesn't hurt that in those days I'm not sure there was as much sympathy to be had in the larger world anyway. Now, it seems the bad ones today just coddle their kids so much they never get the opportunity to learn from experience until the shit totally hits the fan.