Symantec has published a survey about kids’ use of social networks, suggesting that they don’t know or have forgotten that what they put online can hang around forever. I think Symantec is wrong.
They do know. They haven’t forgotten. They just don’t care.
Young people do lots of dumb things, but it’s not that they don’t know better. I knew that smoking was dumb and dangerous, but I still started smoking.
I knew drinking two bottles of Buckfast and surfing on top of a Ford Transit wasn’t very bright, but I still did it.
I knew that driving like a complete idiot wasn’t particularly sensible, but I did that, too. I knew that pouring petrol over myself and lighting it was a bit risky, but WHOOMPH. And so on.
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Feybman has a great anecdote about the lighter fuel thing. his ends with trying to impress some girl then realising he was more hair on his hands than he did when he was a kid and did it.
Did you mean Feynman? Bascially all his annecdotes are great though.
Of course I did.
That exchange reminds me of 30Rock for some reason.
Jack: You must know Arsenio.
Tracy: Hall or Billingham?
Jack: You know someone named Arsenio Billingham?
Tracy: No.
There is probably something worrying about how much I laughed just reading that.