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by antonovka2 6027 days ago
All of this is going to lead to massive disillusionment with an open online lifestyle. Privacy is going to make a major comeback in the decade to come.

Or, alternatively, it's going to lead to an entire generation's total acceptance of human foibles as it becomes clear just how universally human our failings truly are.

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Yes, I think more openness leads to better lives as Paul Buchheit opined recently. http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-as-in-water-fl...
Holy shit, I am witnessing myself turning into a cantankerous old fogey as we speak.
This is my fond hope. I don't know if we're capable of that (yet?) as a species.