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It was obvious back then.
Sure. We all knew that super computers from the future get trained to imitate our shitty meaningless teenager posts after our death.
That isn't the only issue, it's just the latest. Handing over all your personal data, to a system that would obviously combine, extract, manipulate and sell your information seemed like a good idea? How did you think they were going to make money? The kindness of a corporation?
It was obvious then! Downvote me, argue with me, but any person who thought about it for five minutes should have been able to figure this out.
That's the point: Nobody thought about it more than five minutes. We were kids, teenagers. We had other stuff in our minds:D As an adult, living in times where stuff like this is reported on a daily basis, well yea now it's obvious.
Even as a kid I got this. How you didn't is beyond me. First rule: never real information on the internet.
That's good for you! I bet you were the weird kid back then.
It was 2006 when face book launched to everyone. People had been online for years. Everyone knew the consequences of online handles, stalkers, privacy, personal identifiable info.
Corporations and online businesses were not to be trusted, that also was obvious.
But people, by and large, are morons so here we are.
Everyone did not know. What is obvious is that everyone still does not know!
Maybe you can use your superior intelligence and foresight to help educate instead of calling massive swathes of people morons for not knowing something?
People aren't morons for not knowing something that is only "obvious" to autistic techies who instantly think through the ramifications of entire systems. Most people's brains don't work like that and calling them morons won't help anything.
What will help is education - which takes a lot of patience, effort, time and kindness. Have you really got what it takes to make any difference or are you perfectly content with just feeling superior to everyone?
Honestly most of my posts about these subjects are exactly that: education, information and exposing things for what they are. My history says as much, particularly on companies and advertising.
Maybe I should have phrased it different: everything was there that should have informed them. This was so damn obvious and people had been alerted for years. It wasn't some mystery.
I am saying things to this audience different then I would to others of course.
Their is no supiorority, no higher intelligence, no autism, just common sense. These things were all around us then: don't give out personal information, remain annonymous on the internet, corporations are evil. Pretty much the basics.
Are people morons? Lately I really so feel that way. You can show facts, compassion, try to help, and they still do the dumbest things.