• PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I agree with you and I don’t put anything that I would consider questionable online, at least not these days. I’m just having a hard time figuring out what adjustments to make in addition to worrying about personal things I’ve already shared, like my gender and race. You know what I mean? I’m a married woman, and I have info in various places about our family planning choices, to give an example. That’s really starting to worry me, but how can I even begin to delete my data? It’s everywhere. Every doctor has their own patient portal, I have multiple email accounts, and I don’t even want to think about the dumb shit I might have posted when YouTube comment sections were new.

    It’s all really overwhelming.

    • kava@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      yeah i just try not to think about it. I’m glad I was in the myspace generation during my teenage years. so I was actually able to just delete my myspace later on as an adult

      i feel worse for the kids growing up today. they don’t fully understand the implications of what they are posting online. anything and everything is being recorded forever. my generation got a chance to be a stupid kid and have it be forgotten. today’s kids don’t get that opportunity

      the best you can do, though, is just stop posting potentially damaging things online. you can’t change what you already posted. and 999 times out of a thousand, it’s not gonna hurt you.

      i understand the overwhelmed feeling though