Long-term Digital Footprint

[Strawb3rry]

I think it's fair to assume we all posted embarrassing stuff on the Internet when we were younger (Josh certainly did). What are the odds this stuff will screw over Millennials and Zoomers in 30 years? Do you think a presidential elect or the CEO of a major company might be forced to resign because a journalist uncovers that he wrote something edgy when he was 20?

 

[smegma enthusiast]

There's a couple auto-deleter programs out there. Too lazy to find them right now but it purges Reddit posts, Twitter, Facebook, even all your Discord messages. I would really recommend that unless you have some odd attachment to your teenager posts.
Though, of course, some passwords and emails will be lost...
I suspect in a decade or so "cancel" attempts will regularly make national news, especially for up-and-coming Gen-Z/Alpha figures.

 

[𖦹Junkpop𖦹]

I think the future of the internet is uncertain. I think it could end up being so censored, surveilled, and botted that the "cancelling" we're used to won't really be an option. Judging by the way things are going right now in burger land, I don't think some of these kids have much to worry about. You can still be successful and flourish even with a bunch of allegations against you.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I prefer a more creative solution, the various world government will enforce mandatory dick pics be posted before one can use the internet, if everyone's dick is on the internet then it cant be used against anyone. plus there's a bonus of deterring men with tiny pps from joining the internet and creating more gay ass manosphere social media groups.

 

[Idiotron]

If you look up my real name online, there are zero results for me.
You have to scroll images for a long ass time to find a single picture of mine from 2011 and that doesn't have my name attached to it.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

I prefer a more creative solution, the various world government will enforce mandatory dick pics be posted before one can use the internet, if everyone's dick is on the internet then it cant be used against anyone. plus there's a bonus of deterring men with tiny pps from joining the internet and creating more gay ass manosphere social media groups.

I gave you a rainbow because that's gay.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I gave you a rainbow because that's gay.

i agree the manosphere is extremely gay.

 

[Ronnie mc nutts]

I prefer a more creative solution, the various world government will enforce mandatory dick pics be posted before one can use the internet, if everyone's dick is on the internet then it cant be used against anyone. plus there's a bonus of deterring men with tiny pps from joining the internet and creating more gay ass manosphere social media groups.

Nigga what the fuck are you on

 

[Two Dollars]

I DFE’d all my childhood/teenage stuff a few years ago. It hurts, but sometimes it has to be done or a personal message on a pwned account from 15 years ago might link to your present identity. All I really have left is an old email address that only gets spam but I keep it just in case it’s still tied to something.

I prefer a more creative solution, the various world government will enforce mandatory dick pics be posted before one can use the internet, if everyone's dick is on the internet then it cant be used against anyone. plus there's a bonus of deterring men with tiny pps from joining the internet and creating more gay ass manosphere social media groups.

You want to see our dicks? Nigga u gay.

 

[Ferryman]

The optimist in me wants to think that current developments might lead to a re-uptick in user concerns over privacy. Even as a toddler in the 2000s, the first thing my father ever taught me is to NEVER put personally identifying information on the Internet. Hopefully we'll see some sort of return to form once people realize they might not want to air their dirty laundry out for all to see.

 

[Xev]

Newer generations are probably fucked. Even if they spontaneously decide to care about opsec it will be impossible. We are already on the track where users will have to verify their identity to use social media. Some countries might take longer than others to adopt it but it's coming. The question remains will people care more about their opsec and forgo even having social media or will they bend the knee. I suspect most people will do anything in order to get those sweet dopamine hits from updoots.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I think the loony left and trannies are already moving towards "but... that was a long time ago" now that their favs are getting cancelled. That's a catalyst.

 

[Tremolo]

What are the odds this stuff will screw over Millennials and Zoomers in 30 years?

We already see millennials and zoomers get screwed over by their footprint today (as literally any internet famous/lolcow thread will tell you, seriously some trails are abhorrent.). The average netizen (not even normies btw, who are worse by several degrees of magnitude) is retarded and barely cares about OPSEC, and only moderately cares about deleting footprint trails which can be sniffed out if someone is dedicated enough anyway. This isn't even including serial faceposters or how open people are with information (you could probably accurately dox 50% of discord users by their message history alone).

Anyway all that said to answer the main question: Digging up some zoomer politicians /pol/ phase or furry erp discord phase will probably be prevalent enough to be cemented in the main conscious, but due to that it will probably also become so ubiquitous that people stop caring entirely, I will be sure to laugh loudly at any and every person it happens to though.