The digital seas

Some time ago I am almost sure I told you about it, but it was probably forgotten among so many other things. The feeling of anonymity that noise provides allows some privacy as far as we allow it. Not that we can find out someone's life through their username.

Anonymity on the Internet seems to be something that becomes more important as technology advances. Of course, I'm sure we all have our Facebook profile here, and in our lives (maybe still) our thoughts, tastes, preferences, and experiences we capture in our profile so that the world can see what our life is like off-screen.

Beyond the obvious, it is naturally difficult to show our true essence in the networks, because undoubtedly we are always looking for a kind of "happiness" transmitted through a publication.

For the daring ones who do capture a lot of their daily life (I respect them but I do not follow them) and they are not celebrities (I do not justify them either), but simple mortals who share their experiences, there is an interesting turning point, because they share everything in a place where anyone with internet access can have it.

There is a maxim among Internet users that once something is on the Internet, it will never disappear. It will always prevail in the confines of this vast universe. Once this reaches the abysmal internet, it will always exist, so an interesting question arises: How much of our lives should we expose on the internet?

While in most cases, fortunately, nothing may happen, we never really know what we expose ourselves to when a lot of information is posted on the networks. Unfortunately, not everyone on the internet is friendly, and it is disturbing to know that someone behind the screen is a being full of bad intentions.

No one is exempt from running into these characters, but all we know is that the most attractive target for the rascals that infest these digital seas are the youngest, and the ladies, being these frequently, are strongly harassed.

The case of the younger ones always catches my attention, because it is a matter of parental responsibility, in theory, there should not be any child prowling the digital world, but obviating that mistake, if a child is surfing the internet with no supervision, it is a big fail in all rules.

There are predators in this world, some not at all friendly, just looking for ways to attack these little minds that are not prepared for all the evil that dwells here. So, knowing all this, if it is not at all good for an adult to expose all his information on the Internet, imagine the same thing, but with a 10 to a 12-year-old kid, isn't it?

Anonymity is something that can work sensationally here, we can have a select and reduced group of friends and acquaintances with whom we can share our experiences with much more tranquility than with strangers. The reason is very simple, and it is that the internet is not the place it used to be 10 years ago. Now we are in a stage where our information is more valuable than ever, in many aspects.

When I talk about value, I am not only referring to the value that social networks get for each registered user, which is already quite notorious (naturally those companies generate money with our information), to that we must add the twisted value that unscrupulous agents get to all the information we show, and the use they can give to it making clear their terrible intentions.

So, you can enjoy surfing here, nothing happens, but be very careful, we never know who is watching...

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