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I think that's one reason people stopped using LiveJournal/Blogger and other platforms back in the early 2000s. I had countless friends delete or restrict those accounts because there was too much up there; too personal. All modern social media platforms encourage constant posting to quickly bury anything embarrassing.

It's a weird change in dynamic when you think about it, because people were too afraid of the "real" so to say. I wrote a post about this years ago. I'm not sure if I entirely still stand behind it, but I'll leave it here anyway:

https://khanism.org/society/how-social-media-destroyed-my-ge...




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