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.
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
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?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
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.