My friend lost a gig over a Facebook post from ten years ago

Past mistakes SHOULDN'T define people forever.

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Yeah, I read this article about how digging up old posts is basically holding people hostage for jokes they made as teenagers (which is wild). People can change a lot in a decade, you know?

aaron_adams25d ago

Totally, the "holding people hostage" thing is everywhere now. Sean51 is right, we treat online mistakes like they're permanent in a way we'd never do in real life.

sean511mo ago

In many places, kid's crime records get hidden when they turn 18 (to let them start over). @the_joseph, your point about change makes me think online posts never get that same clean slate. We're holding onto old jokes like they're forever truths, even though people grow up. If we applied real-world second chances to the internet, maybe we'd be less quick to dig up the past.

mark_ward25d ago

Wasn't it always fair game to dig up old posts? But comparing it to sealed records really shows the double standard. We expect growth offline but act like people are frozen in time online.

rowan_wells281mo ago

I mean, setting everything to private worked for me when old posts became a problem.