The Web Means the End of Forgetting, article.
Examples are proliferating daily: there was the 16-year-old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook, “I’m so totally bored!!”; there was the 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist who tried to enter the United States but was turned away at the border — and barred permanently from visiting the country — after a border guard’s Internet search found that the therapist had written an article in a philosophy journal describing his experiments 30 years ago with L.S.D.
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The Internet might educate us to present us as sensible, respectful, and loving world citizens. What a chance...
Along a similar line, I've sometimes wondered how certain young 'ladies' will ever be able to be 'diplomatic' about a past perhaps best described as 'colourful', to children or future partners? ... I'm reasonably sure that 'Miss Porn Queen 2010' is NOT an accolade that most mums / fiancees want to bandied about or swapped in the school playground? :-) ... a couple of years back, one girl who lives not too far distant was actually awarded 'Most Convincing Actress in a Group Sex Scene' ... I kid you NOT! ... in the 'Adult Oscars' in Hollywood :-)
On a lesser scale, I've no doubt that over the years to come there WILL be a lot of regret / fallout about photos / videos completed in youth and made public, for payment or otherwise?
Putting up (or having) personal stuff publicly online was once likened to peeing in a swimming pool ... you know it's in there somewhere, no matter how much you try to clean it out! :-)
I think the sense of "shame" will change with time, as people get more and more used. Should I not hire someone because she was a facebook porn queen 10 years ago?
I have a friend who is going to be a teacher, and her "home porn" pictures are still plastered all over the internet if one knows where to look-- she's out of that phase now, and doesn't make any new ones, but she also seems not to care at all that her students might one day recognize her.
"The Internet might educate us to present us as sensible, respectful, and loving world citizens. What a chance..."
Oh,sure! And pigs might fly.
So... since I've praised on my blog, at least TWICE, Hezbollah's [late] spiritual leader's life-long efforts in promoting women's rights in a highly archaic society, I can safely assume I am now branded as a dastardly (and muttery) supporter or terrorism if I attempt to visit the United States or the UK. Drat, and double drat, foiled again! (Send me some oranges during my "stay" in Guantanamo.)
Unless HIS records were deleted after his death, as is the classic procedure with fingerprints? ;-)
"a couple of years back, one girl who lives not too far distant was actually awarded 'Most Convincing Actress in a Group Sex Scene' "
Well, I think it's safe to assume that when you shoot award-winning porn movies with your face (and the rest!) lengthily shown in every detail, you're not exactly the shy type. ;-)
I've seen on occasion amateur porn films where the guys (often black-skinned, which enhanced the visual oddity) wore these featureless white theater masks. I'm assuming to protect their anonymity.
Either that, or to add an element of kinky roleplaying to the... "plot". :-)
"Most CONVINCING actress"? Hey, looks like she's got genuine acting talent. Bravo! Encore!
"Putting up (or having) personal stuff publicly online was once likened to peeing in a swimming pool"
To pee or not to pee, that is the question...
- Why are you banning me from the swimming pool?
- Because, sir, you were urinating in the water.
- Come on! Surely I'm not the only one to pee in the pool?
- From the highest diving board, yes you are!
umbra said...
"I think the sense of "shame" will change with time, as people get more and more used."
Perhaps the same way it changes about your own body when you practice nudism among similarly-(un)dressed people?
I have a lot less qualms about people's embarrassing actions ("let he who is without flaw cast the first stone") than I have about meddling moralist hypocrites attempting to tyrannize (Orus Rex) others in many equally SHAMEFUL pressuring ways.
"What would Jesus say?" :-P
"but she also seems not to care at all that her students might one day recognize her."
"Whoa, Stifler's mom!" LOL!
Actually, she's smart in that. I bet one could find look-alikes of pretty much anybody, among the internet's Mother Load. So, "not having done anything" wouldn't change much, anyway.
And I haven't even mentioned Photoshop yet! (Why even bother?)
Kenneth said...
"Oh,sure! And pigs might fly."
Well spotted, Kenny. (^_^)
[Scroll down to the 8th picture, when a swine flew.
Gesundheit!]
But aren't you worried that the CIA might try to keep the secret?
"OMG, they've killed Kenneth's account!
- You cyber-bastards!"
;-p
In defense of Monsieur Beep, if most of us had access to the internet and
exchanged our thoughts over it, we just might discover that we're all a lot more alike than we are different,
when it comes to basic human qualities.
Ray,
To my amazement, I find that I am in agreement with you. Who knew we were so much alike? ;-)
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