But what lesson is this principle teaching the youth? We cannot delete our physical past as easily. The age that they are allowed online unsupervised, should be the age that they learn about consequences, and about how they cannot post anything that they don't want everyone to see. I fear too many people have missed this lesson.
Monday, September 23, 2013
A World without Consequences
Imagine a life with a "delete" button. Wouldn't that be awesome to hide all your past indiscretions? Then you can live without feeling the consequences of making any mistakes. California has just passed a law that does just that: by 2015, all sites that are gears toward minors, must have a "delete" button, which will erase all the data that they have posted*. No more will that drunken bachelor/bachelorette party haunt them.
But what lesson is this principle teaching the youth? We cannot delete our physical past as easily. The age that they are allowed online unsupervised, should be the age that they learn about consequences, and about how they cannot post anything that they don't want everyone to see. I fear too many people have missed this lesson.
But what lesson is this principle teaching the youth? We cannot delete our physical past as easily. The age that they are allowed online unsupervised, should be the age that they learn about consequences, and about how they cannot post anything that they don't want everyone to see. I fear too many people have missed this lesson.
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The Internet really does some interesting things to control of information, doesn't it? On one hand, it gives us a lot more control, since we can create, modify, and delete information with just a few clicks and button presses. But it also gives us an illusion of control we don't have: we can't, and shouldn't be able to, delete someone else's memories. Once something has been read, it's been read for good, and the Internet doesn't change that.
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