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Comment by dividefuel | Hacker News Reader

Nowadays there's the risk that someone will record you, put it on social media, it'll go big, and suddenly you have a large amount of people weighing in on your personal life without having any context. If that happens, it's likely to trickle back to you directly from other people seeing it or whatever.

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The answer to this is to simply not pay attention to social media. There could be a mob on Twitter/X right now flaming me, and I wouldn't know about it or care, because I simply don't go there.

But members of your social circle (family members, friends, coworkers/bosses etc.) do pay attention, and when they do, they can make it your problem. You can ignore an Internet mob, but you can't ignore getting fired by your employer because they want to preserve optics.

I don't know--I think these stories of real-world consequences stemming from online rage are few and far between. It happens but it's rare. IMO the Online World is kind of not-real, and it's really hard to get so much visibility there to actually affect the real world.

This is one reason I've heard why some people still mask. It's mainly to have some privacy.

covid made the wearing of masks publicly acceptable. in western culture it used to be unwelcome. like if you hide your face you must be a criminal. in austria has a contoversial law that made masking your face in public generally illegal.

This right here is why good leadership is fading. Who would want to be in the limelight?

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