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For example, if a person decides to grab a picture of a young teacher and post fake nudes, the teacher may be able to say that the pics are fake, but she might get fired anyway due to decisions made by the school board or PTA. This type of news might be picked up by the local news network and the story will be embellished out of proportions. Regardless of what she says and whether it's true, her reputation would already be tarnished. We've seen a lot of these happening with celebrities. It will be worse if it happens to normal people with no money to hire a PR company or go to court.
I tried writing my notes by hand but I found it too distracting. I write decently fast but I find myself missing the points of the lecture because I am trying to remember them in order to write them.
For me typing my notes is more convenient and not distracting at all since I'm a fast typist and the act of typing is instinctive for me. I find typing allows me to concentrate on the lecture by listening and yet being able to put the lecture points in writing fast enough.
I tested both methods prior to one of my midterm exams, I get a much higher grade on the subjects where I listen to the lectures while typing my notes than on the ones I listen to while writing by hand. Most of my exams are 2-3 hr handwritten essays.
Now that I'm 40 and poor again (lost my job due to cutbacks), it is impossible for me to recover. Getting new jobs are much harder and people are pretty discriminative towards my age. Nowadays, even employers choose younger people for part-time jobs, since I'm over the hill agewise and overqualified.