Re:Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of...
by OJFord on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:05PM
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> Into the early 2000s, everyone still knew never to use a real name online.
In the mid-2000s I was at school, where we were simultaneously being taught (in 'Information and Communication Technology' lessons) never to use a real name online [0], and signing up to Bebo & MySpace with our real names.
It's (there beginning to exist people) growing up with the internet that all but killed that, I'm sure of it.
[0] with some limited web ring/social network type site for schools, for which we given aliases and then, I don't know, wrote BBcode and marquees and stuff about our school-safe interests and hobbies
In the mid-2000s I was at school, where we were simultaneously being taught (in 'Information and Communication Technology' lessons) never to use a real name online [0], and signing up to Bebo & MySpace with our real names.
It's (there beginning to exist people) growing up with the internet that all but killed that, I'm sure of it.
[0] with some limited web ring/social network type site for schools, for which we given aliases and then, I don't know, wrote BBcode and marquees and stuff about our school-safe interests and hobbies