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Dave Slusher
How about a counter meme to those sappy PSAs about how dangerous it is to post things about yourself on the internet: I find it plausible that in 10-20 years if you don't have that kind of historical embarrassing internet trail on yourself, your peers will find it suspicious and creepy.
October 23, 2008
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Garrick Van Buren, Nils Reinton, Andre Pope and 4 other people liked this
try now - seems like every vc/vendor related meeting I attend now they've already googled me and my company's activities so that they're up to speed - if not, I tend to think less of them initially ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
I mean specifically those drunk pictures of mooning the camera and such that people are so worried about. I see this as an analog to parents being so afraid of abduction that they don't let their kids play outside, getting fat and unhealthy. Fear of the unknown danger prevents actually using the tools available to them, stunting growth. I'm saying this stigma of posting dumb stuff might even reverse. No dumb stuff means something wrong with you.
- Dave Slusher
Exactly! 20 years from now a person who does NOT have drunk Facebook pictures online will be suspicious - what was there to be whitewashed? or is this person too timid or antisocial?
- Bora Zivkovic
If so, I pity those of us who genuinely don't like drinking alcohol and acting like jackasses. Is this potential trend the kind of thing that could lead to someone Photoshopping themselves into spring break photos or staging photos with their head in the toilet just to seem normal?
- J Wynia
"drunk at a party" is just a shorthand for having a normal, relaxed human online presence and not just something on LinkedIn that looks like a Resume. You don't have to be drunk or at a party, just show humanity, which is sometimes embarassing. But not having any of that stuff online pegs you as someone who decided early on in life to run for President and is thus 'massaging' one's image decades in advance - in other words a poltroon you don't want running for any office for instance, or being a CEO.
- Bora Zivkovic
J, Bora hits it just like I was thinking. I don't necessarily mean literal intoxication but dumb kid behavior. For example, the CTO at one company I worked for had his Star Wars fan CGI pictures from when he was 17 on the 2nd page of google hits on his name. It could be your D&D campaigns or bad poetry or whatever. It's just the notion of having an online past vs a cipher.
- Dave Slusher
From that perspective, it does make sense. I've just heard it said very specifically about the spring-break style, drink-till-you-nearly-die kind of behavior as an indicator of "normalcy" and cringe at it every time.
- J Wynia