Think Twice Before Posting

There are some things that we need to be careful of, especially online. I recently experienced something like that, and I'm glad that I gave it a few days before I committed it!

The blockchain is definitely one of the best tools that we've gotten created in the last decade or two. It's got so many benefits that can be attained if we allow it to. Banking, voting, governmental, insurance and SO many other uses for it, it seemingly feels endless! There are challenges with that too though, especially if we aren't careful! What I am referring to is posting things that we probably shouldn't!

We've all been there online: in a particular mood, either a bad mood, spicy or something in between but in generally not the clearest mindset. We write something online and post it, be a comment or a post itself. On the legacy social media sites we can certainly delete it, and it's likely to eventually be wiped off the servers or at least relegated to an archive that may or may not be ever looked at again. With the blockchain though, there is no such thing! If you say or post something and not delete it within a second or two, it's there forever, at least until the chain is quite literally dead and gone!

A bit ago, I had written a post when I was in one of those moods and had it all completed. I uploaded some pictures but something in my mind said "wait before you post this" and a day turned into a week, which turned into a few weeks, and then a few months. Eventually time went by and I never posted it but I'm really glad that I didn't! It wasn't something horrific like demanding somebody be killed or anything, but it was certainly a post that I would rather not be committed forever to the blockchain, having made some of those mistakes already with previous things I've committed.

I think we are definitely in a new paradigm where we are experiencing so much rapid change and very quickly these changes are coming about. This means that who knows what will happen with the things that have been posted online, to the blockchain or otherwise, in a few years. There is definitely the possibility of a "social credit score" type of communist system that will enslave and destroy humanity as we know it. That's part of the "worst case scenario" type shit. On the other hand, there is the lighter notion where we have people we know on here in the physical world that will eventually make their way onto the chain, and see some of the things we've posted and wish that we hadn't.

The younger generation is starting to realize that the things they say online can and will come back to bite them if they aren't careful. I've seen a few things online where someone who is 18 or 19 applying for a job to get some experience in their desired field in college, only to find out that their prospective employer did a little search for them online and found some unsavory things they've said and rescinded their interest in them as a candidate. These are very real scenarios! Will they happen with people on Hive? Not as likely, since most of the people here aren't using their full name as their username, but it's definitely likely!

I think especially in the advent of AI and the data farming that is going on, we certainly have to be VERY careful of what we are posting online. Yeah, the AI software can come up with an analysis of us as an individual and likely be fairly accurate, more accurate than we would like them to be, but the idea is to give it enough vague information without having things be very embarrassing.

What do you think, are you trying to be cautious with what you are posting online? Why or why not?