[Politics] Someone explain Social Media to Me and why are people constantly Owning Themselves on it?

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Honestly, people will either get over this siht, or in about 20 years primary elections will be a search to find someone - anyone - who has never said anything that would offend the base on the internet.

Its going to be so cringey when us Millennials are running for president and the debate questions will be like "At what age did you send your first nude selfie?" or "Did you support the #DoGoodForDogs and why did you not support #DontDoBadToDogs? What mixed signals are you sending to Streamers in New New York?"

I think the debate would be something like "Did you support climate change deniers?" Or "Do you consider worth rescuing Miami from underwater?" And "Do you think you can beat Mark Zuckerberg at his re-election?"

Oh God you're right, that fucker is gonna run for President and probably win

 

[Schadrach]

Honestly, people will either get over this siht, or in about 20 years primary elections will be a search to find someone - anyone - who has never said anything that would offend the base on the internet.

Its going to be so cringey when us Millennials are running for president and the debate questions will be like "At what age did you send your first nude selfie?" or "Did you support the #DoGoodForDogs and why did you not support #DontDoBadToDogs? What mixed signals are you sending to Streamers in New New York?"

More realistically, it'll be political opponents trying to piece together every online identity you've ever had so they can show that one joke made in bad taste or grumbling about your sex life in a not entirely professional way on an obscure website when you were a teenager and how that proves you something or another bad in the present.

 

[Kwak]

Ok, unless you count this, youtube and my email, I'm not on your typical types of social media.

I'm not on Twitter, Any of the Picture apps, or Facebook.

But I just can't understand why people are constantly Owning Themselves on Social Media.

13 Police Officers are going to be let go [https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/us/philadelphia-police-begin-firing-social-posts/index.html] due to their social media garbage. Border Patrol mocking the conditions and dehumanizing their detainees [https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes]. Political hopefuls dashed their own dreams [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-social-media-1.3220589] due to their own tweets.

At the end of the day, yeah, I'm glad this Self Ownage exists. But I can't understand WHY people can't get it through their heads that their messages are always going to get out. They always do. Why continue to voice things that they know will get them into trouble? Especially if you're in a position of any authority.

Everything can be used against them. So why do people insist on loading all the guns they can and passing it around the world?

Because you get an opportunity to perform for a peer group where everyone is egging each other on in whatever little camp of ideology they've set up for themselves, often forgetting those virtual camps are still viewable by people outside them.

 

[Kyrian007]

Honestly, people will either get over this siht, or in about 20 years primary elections will be a search to find someone - anyone - who has never said anything that would offend the base on the internet.

Its going to be so cringey when us Millennials are running for president and the debate questions will be like "At what age did you send your first nude selfie?" or "Did you support the #DoGoodForDogs and why did you not support #DontDoBadToDogs? What mixed signals are you sending to Streamers in New New York?"

More realistically, it'll be political opponents trying to piece together every online identity you've ever had so they can show that one joke made in bad taste or grumbling about your sex life in a not entirely professional way on an obscure website when you were a teenager and how that proves you something or another bad in the present.

But isn't that good for those of us who don't want to vote for someone who is stupid enough to make a joke in bad taste online where everyone could find it? Good for those of us who look at that angsty teenage whining and can see either a: "oh, they have obviously changed" and can vote for them or b: "oh wow, that's where their seeming deep resentments come from, yeah no vote for incel boy."

Social media and technology have made such much easier, but career politics has ALWAYS been about the dirt you can hide vs. the dirt you find on your opponent. Don't expect anyone to "get over" that perfectly normal vetting process. For everyone that made public racist or sexist comments or committed some kind of objectional act... there is someone that didn't. And its to that person's credit they should be seen as more electable. Whether they are just a better person, or they are just smart enough to act like it in public.