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By not being on or engaging social media - if you messed up you could go to the next village and not get tarred and feathered there.

I read about this incident living in a different continent proverbially 8400 miles away from Budapest.

A global village you tell me - meh - it is a curse.

Not engaging is a perfectly reasonable choice, especially when the negatives of engaging outweigh the positives.

More selectively engaging could also work, in theory. In practice though, I suspect people succumb to industry engagement stimulation techniques and get pulled back in completely.

Or develop a very thick skin as well - the internet amplifies the unsavory aspects of human behavior because of $$$.

She would have been targeted even if she did not use social media

Click on something else. The Internet is a mood organ.

https://www.tor.com/2015/05/21/that-was-awesome-the-penfield...

By talking about computers and math.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance