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For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 89 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Don’t pick up the phone if someone is online… I’m old

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m a millennial, I learned this, and now I just don’t pick up the phone.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 13 points 3 weeks ago

It’s weird when someone calls me and it’s actually a live one.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a gen z and I can't put down the phone

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Now try and call someone with it. I'll wait

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Feel free to call me whenever, it only costs you $69 a minute.

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[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I can’t remember. Did it make pterodactyl noises or is that just faxes?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

You come from a nice family. My family disconnected each other all the time

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 62 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] The_Che_Banana 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] CharlesReed@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

(Except other dogs, and we meet every night on irc:#awoo)

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 17 points 3 weeks ago

The amount of boomer bait on Facebook is staggering. The amount of Boomers falling for obviously AI-generated shite even moreso.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't give your credit card details over the internet.

Nowadays people have them saved in their damn browser for convenience.

[–] danafest@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Didros 35 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

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.

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just made me realize the term is just a shortened form of newbie.

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[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard this one phrased: "Newbs deserve a helping hand. Noobs deserve a kicking."

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

thread necromancy

AKA "discussing something with new information more than 31 seconds after people got bored of it"

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

some guy asking your question and being told to start a new thread instead.

If it’s done within a reasonable time period, it’s understandable. Hours or a day or two later depending on the forum.

It’s different when someone saunters in years later with the β€œI’ve got the same problem!” quip to a post that may or may not actually be the same, and actually expects a response. That, to me, is necroposting.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 weeks ago

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...

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Internet is a proper noun and should always be capitalized.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

THE Internet is a proper noun.

AN internet is an network of networks and is just a thing; like an intranet is.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is the pedantry I came here for!

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] AAA@feddit.org 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] PatheticGroundThing 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

only 1 hour a day! And if you accidentally click on a wrong link, the hackers can backtrace you or send the internet police.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

Stay anonymous

[–] Grimwell@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

Don't Feed the trolls

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Don't be a dick.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing that happens on the internet matters.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 3 weeks ago

I mean... I feel like this could still apply πŸ˜…

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.

Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.

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[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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