My dad is an OG Usenet guy who’s been posting since the 80s. He taught me this esoteric computer wisdom: “Never put identifying information online. Weird people will do weird things with it.” To this day, I’m deeply confused about why normies feel so comfortable broadcasting themselves to the entire planet. Why would anyone ever assume that this is a safe thing to do? Somehow despite being chronically online, they never developed online survival skills, unlike early computer users like my dad