• superkret@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    People are disgusted by the idea that one random person could track their every move and read everything they write.
    Unless that person is employed at a large corporation.

    I used to date a Google employee. They had a Signal chat where they shared screenshots of funny or interesting shit they saw on the user accounts.
    And many abused their access to spy on ex-partners and the like.

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      2 days ago

      Its actually worse than that.

      I’ve recently met an increasing number of Gen Alpha / Zoomers that all have all their friends in some kind of family location tracking app, so they all know each other’s locations at all times, and actually you’re a rude asshole if you think that’s weird.

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          23 hours ago

          Man, I’m so used to that it didn’t even occur to me.

          Now, I realize the following is extreme, but I did actually experience this a year ago:

          The last Gen A that made fun of me for not using an iPhone actually just began literally screeching when I attemped to explain why I use an android.

          Just stared me down and eeeeEEEEeEEE! for 20 seconds until my ears were ringing.

          In the previous sentence, she was talking about how she doesn’t conform to standard societal gender norms and is a rebel against capitalism… then questioned why I don’t use an iPhone.

          When she was done literally screeching, she then started bragging about their Temu fast fashion addiction, and then said I don’t use an iPhone because I’m broke.

          So… thats a whole lot of hypocrisy in 60 seconds.

          And then later that evening, she proceeded to get into a physical punching and scratching match with her on again off again girlfriend, which I had to break up when one of them grabbed a fucking knife.

          … Physically abusive lesbian relationship, how very rebellious, non stereotypical and progressive.

          Oh, did I mention she had made me promise, multiple times, to cover for her and lie to her boyfriend and convince him that she had left her girlfriend and wasn’t cheating on him?