A thread about being afraid of the internet.
Through the years and talking with other anons on this website I've noticed a pattern of being afraid of the internet or constantly wanting to disappear from it. The internet can be pretty scary, from data breaches to online cancel culture and doxxing, there's plenty of reasons why someone may want to be safe online and be very careful with their own information. Basic cyber security should be enough, but sometimes there's more to this genuine fear of being perceived online. To make your digital footprint as invisible as possible and scrub out anything related to you. However, this paranoia could become a compulsion. Cutting off real life people, obsessively cycling through new accounts, never letting anyone take pictures of you in case someone uploads them, and generally not using the internet like a normies would. Even here on lolcow.farm, you would be careful to omit details and not post too much. Here's some optional questions:
>Would you say you have internet paranoia?>Can internet paranoia be good? Or could it lead to some unhealthy patterns?>Do you have a reason to be extremely cautious? Or do you think it's a no brainier and everyone should do it?>If you do have social media, is there a way you curate your presence to avoid it being linked to your real life self?>Has this impacted your real life in any way? Example: harder to connect to people, some jobs requiring social media, etcDiscuss and feel free to add anything else.
No social media / minimal social media thread:
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