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Thanks for the elaborate and thoughtful reply! I have little to add to the bigger paragraphs, but about the question at the end: I've been wondering the same and think it must be an information age thing. Not in the abstract or the "kids these days" sense, but in that everything is stored somewhere and processed in invisible ways

I don't remember caring that someone took a picture of me with their Nokia when I know that they'll at worst share it to a handful of people via Bluetooth or try to upload it to a friend's MSN channel via GPRS. It won't be uploaded to Facebook, facial-recognized, and stuffed into a global database. Or visiting websites: I operate a website and I know you can parse which pages I viewed straight from the access logs. I don't mind, you can see what paths I took through the website and you might learn how to make a better flow. But technically, drilling down to such an individual user level is tracking based on personal identifiers and so would require consent under 2018's GDPR. I'm happy that it now does because I don't want Google to track every page I visit, and ~everyone uses Google Analytics because then you get perks like knowing what search queries you are doing well on (how convenient that google removed referrers for privacy)

I don't really have a solid answer -- why do I care about Facebook and Google but not about John "Malicious Sysadmin" Doe? -- but maybe it makes sense on some level. I need to think about it more still

>>lucb1e+(OP)
I think the problem is that the new communication methods are allowing for new modes of communications that we lack tools for dealing with malicious actors(like IRL when someone lies constantly, we know how to work with that person but we don't know how to deal with someone from the other side of the world who lies as a full time occupation preying for attention). The newer generation people are less and less interested with "talking to strangers" as the environment become too toxic and goal(like promoting a product or pushing an agenda) oriented when the internet became mainstream with the proliferation of 3G and iPhone/Android. IMHO There are not many real people out there, most people who create content are doing it as a job or as a side hustle and those who provide the platform treat people as numbers, probably not much different than butchers who are just trying to produce some meat so they don't see the animals as live being. Plus, there are psychos all over the place who are trying to harm people for entertainment.

As a result, real people are having real talk in the safety group chats where they know the members to som degree, IIUC.