[bobx11]

Are you sure our more normalized now? The back of magazines and comic books were also full of scams and sleaze when I was a kid. I am 40 and remember people forwarding letters around with a dollar in them for some kind of pyramid scheme.

[seydor]

We remember that because it was the exception

I don't think there was another time in history when people self proclaimed the things you find today in a social media profile , and not getting laughed at