[ SECRET POST #5244 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5244 ⌋

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[tabaqui]

Huh, really? I mean - yeah, it was like that, but other than, say, Twitter, do people really give out their real names and stuff? Except for some close LJ friends I've known for years, I dunno *anyone's* real name or home town/state on my flist, and only know the country if they have mentioned it and/or it's in their profile and I saw it once.

[(Anonymous)]

It's very common among Gen Z to have a carrd as a one-stop-shop for all your personal information. Name (although sometimes this might be a pseudonym), gender, age, sexuality, race/ethnicity, political beliefs, medical conditions and disabilities, location (to varying degrees of specificity, some might just say the country, others might say their hometown/city), and a 'Do Not Interact' list which is usually just a complete list of things that trigger you or otherwise upset you. Couple that with the things they might inadvertently share like a street sign in the background of a selfie, or the fact that they're in a regional choir that rehearses every Tuesday from 4-6PM and you can see how it's kind of a concern.

And then you have the kids that publicly tweet like, "I'm a 16 year old trans girl, I've just been kicked out of my house by my transphobic family and I need a place to stay in [area]." They don't consider that someone might read that and see, "I'm young, vulnerable and desperate and nobody is looking for me."

Like...is internet safety taught in schools anymore? Or do we just expect kids to know these things because they're "digital natives"?

[tabaqui]

That is some crazy-ass stuff. Wow.

[(Anonymous)]

Like...is internet safety taught in schools anymore?

No, it isn't.

I'm cynical enough to suspect that the erosion of internet safety has less to do with expecting Zoomers to know these things because they're supposedly digital natives than it does with companies like Facebook and Google wanting to encourage people to share all their personal data so they can profit more from selling that data and shoving more ads down everyone's throats.

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon here - it's so wild to me that internet safety is barely taught in schools. I remember in the early 2000s when I was a kid and my classmates were getting into online chat room sites like Habbo Hotel - so the teachers would talk to us about the dangers about talking to strangers on the internet every so often.

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest, I don't ever recall having "internet safety" class, but I recall (this was back in the days when dial up was the norm and "the internet" came in a tin/cd-rom) the news, the constant media warnings of stranger danger/the general thought on the matter was whoever you were talking to in that random chatroom you're in (unless it's a classmate via AIM or MSN) is likely a 40 y/o Man looking to find you and kidnap you (all nefarious intent and activities). Not a 13 y/o girl who wants to be your friend or a 15 y/o boy who wants to be your boyfriend. Nope. All creeps looking to kidnap you.

As a result, fake names (if any) were used, location rarely distributed, and age depended on context (was it a forum on a fic archive where everyone was older? Then so were you - if asked). I think there was also a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" mindset in fandom those days.

I remember when I started scrolling through Tumblr and being shocked that these kids had their actual photos, and pretty much everything you listed. All i could think was how dumb. Anonymity back in the day, at least for me/the youth was for more than just privacy, it was for safety. And you grew up understanding that, the internet was an unknown frontier. And now, we're all out here building and transforming it.

[(Anonymous)]

"Like...is internet safety taught in schools anymore?"

Was it ever? (Mind you, I'm old enough that USENET was the only system around during my *college* years...)

[(Anonymous)]

There were PSAs and pamphlets and the ubiquitous "that kid could really be a 50 year old truck driver," but I don't think there were actual classes. The internet-related stuff I remember learning was more along the lines of... not taking for granted that everything online was a legit source because any idiot can put up a website.

I don't think they teach that anymore either though.