21
How did posting online change from, "Be careful what you put online!" to many sharing a lot under real names?
(self.nostupidquestions)
There is no such thing as a Stupid Question!
Don't be embarrassed of your curiosity; everyone has questions that they may feel uncomfortable asking certain people, so this place gives you a nice area not to be judged about asking it. Everyone here is willing to help.
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca still apply!
Thanks for reading all of this, even if you didn't read all of this, and your eye started somewhere else, have a watermelon slice ๐.
Idk about anyone else's more liberal use of personal information, but I know for me I stopped caring once it became clear that online privacy is an illusion. Yeah, I could go out of my way to be super private and not reveal anything, but all it takes is someone better at snooping than I am at being private to reveal me. Not that anyone has a reason to in the first place, but I just don't see the point in hiding behind anything more than the carnival masks we are all wearing.
There is a signifignat space between "total privacy" and "share everything".
Plus there is also a difference between being sniffed by some web crawler and a targeted motivated investigation. Just avoid being completely careless with what you share online, set up some an ad and tracker blocker and privacy isn't that difficult.