Donβt pick up the phone if someone is onlineβ¦ Iβm old
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Iβm a millennial, I learned this, and now I just donβt pick up the phone.
Itβs weird when someone calls me and itβs actually a live one.
I'm a gen z and I can't put down the phone
Now try and call someone with it. I'll wait
I canβt remember. Did it make pterodactyl noises or is that just faxes?
You come from a nice family. My family disconnected each other all the time
Social media killed online aliases and I have a hard time deciding if we're all worse for it.
Instinctively I still stick by that, though, as you can tell by my anonymous profile with no bio, but when I volunteer any amount of personal info these days people are often confused that I'm not sharing openly who I am or where I'm from. Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
Facebook tried that shit with me. Ban until I sent verification of my ID so I sent a paystub photoshopped (badly) with my alias, it was accepted and it's still there even though I left FB years ago.
Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
And now it's come 180 in that some see it as a red flag if you don't give up that information. I had someone on a different social media site accuse me of being a bot because I wouldn't give up the specific town I'm from. I've seen it happen to others too. It is both fascinating and insane how viewpoints have changed regarding identifying yourself online.
When reading a long text, disconnect from the internet as soon as it has loaded so you don't pay for the time you spend reading.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -Abraham Lincoln
Social media, a gorilla getting shot, two US elections, and GenAI later, we have completely fallen off this one simple rule.
The amount of boomer bait on Facebook is staggering. The amount of Boomers falling for obviously AI-generated shite even moreso.
Don't give your credit card details over the internet.
Nowadays people have them saved in their damn browser for convenience.
Credit card usually isn't so bad. It's usually pretty easy to dispute charges etc, debit card on the other hand...no way that's getting saved
I learned as a kid playing star craft that there are noobs and newbs. Newbs are people new to a game who need help learning. And a noob is someone who has played for a while and refuses to learn and would rather troll.
I've heard this one phrased: "Newbs deserve a helping hand. Noobs deserve a kicking."
Basic forum etiquette. It's horrifying at work seeing teams "teams" (forums) used like chats, all the cross-posting and thread necromancy, people completely unable to keep topics confined to the appropriate sub-forum, etc
thread necromancy
AKA "discussing something with new information more than 31 seconds after people got bored of it"
Necroposting is a slur by the terminally online against normal people trying to get shot done. They're the reason why every Google search that leads to a forum ends with some guy asking your question and being told to start a new thread instead.
some guy asking your question and being told to start a new thread instead.
If itβs done within a reasonable time period, itβs understandable. Hours or a day or two later depending on the forum.
Itβs different when someone saunters in years later with the βIβve got the same problem!β quip to a post that may or may not actually be the same, and actually expects a response. That, to me, is necroposting.
I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.
This was back in the early 2000s...
Internet is a proper noun and should always be capitalized.
THE Internet is a proper noun.
AN internet is an network of networks and is just a thing; like an intranet is.
This is the pedantry I came here for!
Don't top post.
Gmail is super annoying at this, there is no way to automatically turn this off. I just have to delete the ellipsis every damn time
On the Internet I grew up on, pretty much anything was ok except to discuss (or even speculate about) the real-world identities of users who didn't very openly disclose them.
Now many people think the latter is ok.
Don't talk to strangers.
Searching things is easy so don't post something without checking it. People now don't make the slightest effort to verify a rumor or conspiracy crap.
and, conversely, posting things you have "verified"
"You're wrong! I was able to prove it with a quick Google!"
Your knowledge coming from a 'quick google' isn't the flex you think it is. Most things that can be proven with a quick google are false.
The same people who warned us about the dangers of the internet and not to believe everything, are now the ones readily falling for and spreading conspiracies and lies from social media.
It's tragic.
I suspect now it was never about "don't believe everything", it's just been "believe what I believe". Which I suppose follows Nietzsche's thought on the transition from religion to ideology.
Sticking around and "lurking" for a bit before you try to engage with a new community, to learn the local etiquette before you make an ass of yourself. Or at least reading the rules as a bare minimum.
only 1 hour a day! And if you accidentally click on a wrong link, the hackers can backtrace you or send the internet police.
Stay anonymous
Don't Feed the trolls
Don't be a dick.
Nothing that happens on the internet matters.
I mean... I feel like this could still apply π
Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.
Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.
There always have been the nick picks. But now sometimes there is barely any connection between the post and the comments. Like two people with multiple strokes distributed between them having an angry teams call.