That's a good point. I wonder if we're eventually going to get to a point where either virtually everyone is guilty for things they said when they were kids or we're going to collectively decide that social media history just doesn't really matter anymore except for the truly egregious stuff or if it was posted after an age where one should know better.
Or maybe it's a generational thing where we just happen to be in a period of time when parts of the population had access to social media before they fully understood the long term ramifications of what they put out there. I don't know. All I know is I'm grateful for message board anonymity and that I grew up pre-smartphones and social media.
I think you’re optimistic about the call-out culture that the DMR was trying to profit from.
It’s a game of out-doing each other, detached from actual anything about the alleged transgressions, assuming there is even anything there at all. Imo it’s not generational as much as it is society learning to deal with the new ways of human group interaction that technology has facilitated. You see it here with people so eager to (preemptively) call-out meltdown posts that often can be similar to something they’ve posted. They are actually melting down in attempt to call out meltdowns.
That said, the younger demographics were the first to use that technology.
