Current Events > If you've ever written anything racist/sexist/*phobic, etc. on your social media

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accounts, you should thoroughly go through it and clean up.

If youve grown as a person, just do a clean wipe.
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I just laugh at the idiots that thought any good could possibly come of broadcasting your personal thoughts and opinions to the world. I have never had a single social media account.
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Omega Hunter posted...

I just laugh at the idiots that thought any good could possibly come of broadcasting your personal thoughts and opinions to the world. I have never had a single social media account.

But GFaqs is social media

Omega Hunter posted...

I just laugh at the idiots that thought any good could possibly come of broadcasting your personal thoughts and opinions to the world. I have never had a single social media account.

I just post art-related images or articles, never any actual thoughts or perspectives.
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You can use scripts or the old fashioned way.
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I haven't said anything like that on Facebook. I don't have other social media. Even facebook I don't even use anymore. Haven't been to it in over a year.
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They could just use the wayback machine. Ideally you'd be better off staying off the internet altogether.
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That isn't going to help. If you put it on the internet, it will always be there.
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I don't post anything on Facebook or Twitter.

Hell, I only have accounts at all because I needed them to unlock goodies in certain online games.
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Why
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I had facebook back when only college students could get an account, so I guarantee there's some "offensive" shit on there. But I disabled it years ago.
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I save my shitposting for accounts that I'm reasonably positive that I have a decent amount of plausible deniability on. Essentially the most controversial thing I've posted online attached to my actual name was saying fuck the Cardinals or encouraging fellow Republicans to not vote for Trump.
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Ive deleted my account multiple times for a few reasons.

One reason is that I dont want edgy content from my youth to haunt me.
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I made a new FB account a while back because my old one had all the posts from when I went through my ultra-liberal phase. (And that one itself got created to replace one with all the posts from when I went through my ultra-conservative phase.)

My current one is exactly where I want it to be - mocking the hell out of both. :D
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First time, I was sick of Alt Lit.

Second time, I was sick of Weird Facebook.

Third time, I will be sick of Leftbook.

I almost deleted it for the Alt Right but theyve calmed down significantly.
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I'll keep my Instagram and Twitter open... I just don't post anything that I'd regret.
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We all make mistakes.
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SauI_Goodman posted...

They could just use the wayback machine. Ideally you'd be better off staying off the internet altogether.

The wayback machine only screenshots popular pages or manually. It wouldn't have screenshotted some rando's Facebook page unless someone thought to do so before you removed it.
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Omega Hunter posted...

I just laugh at the idiots that thought any good could possibly come of broadcasting your personal thoughts and opinions to the world. I have never had a single social media account.

Thats good.
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Lol no

I don't think I've acted in a directly racist or sexist manner. I think some of my opinions could've been construed that way though.

One example which stands out in my mind is my response to Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of King Kong. I complained that they changed the three lead characters: Ann Darrow, Carl Denham, and Jack Driscoll. Carl went from an ambitious man to a parasitic capitalist and Jack went from a rugged sailor to an intimated intellectual. Those complaints are fair or so I still feel. But Ann went from a damsel in distress to a strong female protagonist. Now, I wasn't thinking about the seven decades of social change which had taken place between the original and the remake. I wasn't thinking about how Ann Darrow, being the sole female character, became the movie's default representation of women. I was mad because they changed my story. (And damn them for it!)

I feel like I could take up a career in screenwriting and that a criticism from my teens or early 20s could come back to haunt me. "Of course he'd be mad the sequel made Karen more of a rebel. He feels women should all be dependent love interests." [posts snapshot of something I said in 2006]

Omega Hunter posted...

I just laugh at the idiots that thought any good could possibly come of broadcasting your personal thoughts and opinions to the world. I have never had a single social media account.

You've posted all types of messed up stuff on here though. If anyone had a reason to, you'd be persona non grata if your history was revealed.
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I've made about 5 posts on social media in my entire life and none of them had anything to do with race or sex

legendary_zell posted...

You've posted all types of messed up stuff on here though. If anyone had a reason to, you'd be persona non grata if your history was revealed.

Consequences will never be the same.
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Why?

Keep it private, with only your friends

That way I say what I want. And what I want is destructive comments hahah
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love how movers are always like follow me on facebook, twitter, gamefaqs.gamespot, instagram...
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