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
[–] 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.
Yes, you could. They took a phone call or showing up instead, but you absolutely could be - both real and false.