Ah, yes, the future. You are an adult who has paid off all of your debt, has a well paying job and you are completely content with your life. You have a life partner and two children, biological or adopted. They are the teenagers who have reaped the rewards of the technological advancements of the years before, but with one added bonus: Unlike your own parents, you actually kept up with the changing technology and made an effort to learn how to use them. Your kids can ask you anything about their new laptops and you can help them. Such is your life.
You sit down, your trusty animal companion next to you, and you open your laptop and log in to Facebook 8.0, having long ago realized that not having an account looks bad to your employers, and look at the small widget that came with the update a few months ago.
You see, the people in charge of FB long ago grew tired of the "friending" of random strangers and devised a way to deter it, though it is also a major intrusion of privacy. You can see what websites your friends are on when they log into their accounts. Every website that wants to become popular no longer provides free accounts, either you pay for one that does not show up on FB or you use your FB account to log in. The profits are shared between the website and Facebook, with the added side effect being that the internet had become slightly more civil as a result of the change.
Of course, the people in charge are not that evil, so they gave everyone the option to disable the viewer, along with the option to block out certain people. This is the first time you have logged in since the update, so you check it out and see that your son is on a porn website, a very specific website, and your daughter is chatting on a very NSFW website.
You know it would be hypocritical of you to ground them for doing the exact same thing you did, so what would you do?
TL;DR: You live in a future where you have everything you want with any excess, but it comes with the knowledge of all the websites your children will ever see... ALL OF THEM. Would you want to live in this world?
You sit down, your trusty animal companion next to you, and you open your laptop and log in to Facebook 8.0, having long ago realized that not having an account looks bad to your employers, and look at the small widget that came with the update a few months ago.
You see, the people in charge of FB long ago grew tired of the "friending" of random strangers and devised a way to deter it, though it is also a major intrusion of privacy. You can see what websites your friends are on when they log into their accounts. Every website that wants to become popular no longer provides free accounts, either you pay for one that does not show up on FB or you use your FB account to log in. The profits are shared between the website and Facebook, with the added side effect being that the internet had become slightly more civil as a result of the change.
Of course, the people in charge are not that evil, so they gave everyone the option to disable the viewer, along with the option to block out certain people. This is the first time you have logged in since the update, so you check it out and see that your son is on a porn website, a very specific website, and your daughter is chatting on a very NSFW website.
You know it would be hypocritical of you to ground them for doing the exact same thing you did, so what would you do?
TL;DR: You live in a future where you have everything you want with any excess, but it comes with the knowledge of all the websites your children will ever see... ALL OF THEM. Would you want to live in this world?
