Comment on What If: No Social Media Anonymity
patchexempt@lemmy.zip 10 months agoYep, there is already a great example of what would happen, and it pretty much proved what many of us believed: governments and employers used it as a surveillance tool, and it’s not a replacement for a real content moderation strategy. People are just as happy to be cruel to each other and spread disinformation even if their real name is attached to it.
Locking down social media to prevent employers from judging your whole life on some party post has definitely become a thing.
It’s harder to separate personal life from professional life if employers go through personal accounts.
Government oppression is definitely a good example and would not be a desirable outcome.
timetravel@lemmings.world 10 months ago
I think it ruins too much. People have tentacles, each part of your personality needs to exercise, whether hobbies or romance or family, but those things don’t need to see the other facets of you. It breaks the whole point of having multiple relationships and groups. We aren’t just 1 thing and anything that limits us to that through transparent posting of everything publically is just horrible. I quit social media that has my name like 10 years ago. It was shallow and troublesome. I feel a little more isolated but I mean I would anyway at this point in my life
patchexempt@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
agree with all these points. another thing I think about a lot is: I have the benefit of having grown up with the Internet but before social media, and so all of my embarrassing teen content is long gone. can’t imagine having that follow you around for the rest of forever, tied to your real name, looked at by potential employers and being asked to defend it for the rest of your life.