Society has really not adapted well to this.
[–] DANmode 1 day ago
[–] macintux 1 day ago
When I used phone books:
- My banking accounts weren’t globally accessible
- The data companies collected about me was effectively non-existent, and wasn’t globally accessible
- My phone had no information about me, didn’t know my minute-by-minute whereabouts, and if somehow you organized a DDOS against it, I could just take it off the hook and walk away
- My employer didn’t have social media, and couldn’t be bombarded with accusations against me
- Swatting was less likely, because there weren’t 8 billion people with easy access to my data
I could probably go on for a while. None of the above is me “opening myself up” except by virtue of owning a smartphone, which is difficult to avoid.
[–] DANmode 8 hours ago
Yes, you could. They took a phone call or showing up instead, but you absolutely could be - both real and false.
[–] DANmode 8 hours ago
Ah yes, my mom randomly gets swatted all the time!
(What are you talking about?, lol: this is again an intentionally-prominent-person’s problem, not a general societal shift.)
[–] DANmode 8 hours ago
But carrying one with you at all times, and giving it all of your attention, giving attention to notifications and tags on multiple wide-open-to-public platforms - that’s not a spectrum of choices?!
C’mon.
We can just take it off the hook and walk away. We succumb to pressures.
The ways people have opened themselves to harassment and targeting have been increased significantly since phone books.
People were not hard to target and harass in those days.