Comments on: The Curious Case of Internet Anonymity http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/10/01/the-curious-case-of-internet-anonymity/ Staying Out of the Cubicle: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Travel Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathan Lustig http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/10/01/the-curious-case-of-internet-anonymity/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Nathan Lustig Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:01:57 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=554#comment-288 Great observation about people failing to grow out of their teenage mentality of invincibility. Great observation about people failing to grow out of their teenage mentality of invincibility.

]]> By: Nathan Lustig http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/10/01/the-curious-case-of-internet-anonymity/comment-page-1/#comment-1393 Nathan Lustig Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:01:00 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=554#comment-1393 Great observation about people failing to grow out of their teenage mentality of invincibility. Great observation about people failing to grow out of their teenage mentality of invincibility.

]]> By: Greg http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/10/01/the-curious-case-of-internet-anonymity/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Greg Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:17:33 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=554#comment-275 "Man that guy is an idiot for putting that on the Internet," is a phrase i'm sure we have all uttered. However, another phrase I'm sure we have all said, but more likely only in our head is, "That would never happen to me." It's the classic teenager mentality that more and more people are failing to grow out of. How many stories of teenagers getting into an accident and/or dying have there been recently? (searching for less than 30 seconds will produce at minimum 15 stories) I’m sure you have heard of at least one person and probably know someone personally as well who has caused an accident because of texting while driving. This act increases your chances of crashing by 50%. Yet driving down the highway at insane speeds you see not only teenagers, but 20-somethings and 30-somethings and even at times I’ve seen drivers with gray hair texting in the driver’s seat…right beside you! These older people are supposed to have more common sense than teenagers. Why when these people know the danger do they still decide to knowingly increase their risk of death or bodily injury? They don’t think it can happen to them. This is the same idea and can be correlated to people and the Internet. The general mentality of invincibility carries across the population in frightening ways. When a police officer posts a video of them burning a dummy with a co-worker's uniform to share with his buddies, he’s thinking, “This will be so funny and it’s just on Facebook. No one will watch this or be able to look at it except who I allow to see it.” Invincibility! It’s a dangerous and deadly mentality. “Man that guy is an idiot for putting that on the Internet,” is a phrase i’m sure we have all uttered. However, another phrase I’m sure we have all said, but more likely only in our head is, “That would never happen to me.” It’s the classic teenager mentality that more and more people are failing to grow out of. How many stories of teenagers getting into an accident and/or dying have there been recently? (searching for less than 30 seconds will produce at minimum 15 stories) I’m sure you have heard of at least one person and probably know someone personally as well who has caused an accident because of texting while driving. This act increases your chances of crashing by 50%. Yet driving down the highway at insane speeds you see not only teenagers, but 20-somethings and 30-somethings and even at times I’ve seen drivers with gray hair texting in the driver’s seat…right beside you! These older people are supposed to have more common sense than teenagers. Why when these people know the danger do they still decide to knowingly increase their risk of death or bodily injury? They don’t think it can happen to them.

This is the same idea and can be correlated to people and the Internet. The general mentality of invincibility carries across the population in frightening ways. When a police officer posts a video of them burning a dummy with a co-worker’s uniform to share with his buddies, he’s thinking, “This will be so funny and it’s just on Facebook. No one will watch this or be able to look at it except who I allow to see it.”

Invincibility! It’s a dangerous and deadly mentality.

]]> By: Greg http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/10/01/the-curious-case-of-internet-anonymity/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 Greg Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:17:00 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=554#comment-1392 "Man that guy is an idiot for putting that on the Internet," is a phrase i'm sure we have all uttered. However, another phrase I'm sure we have all said, but more likely only in our head is, "That would never happen to me." It's the classic teenager mentality that more and more people are failing to grow out of. How many stories of teenagers getting into an accident and/or dying have there been recently? (searching for less than 30 seconds will produce at minimum 15 stories) I’m sure you have heard of at least one person and probably know someone personally as well who has caused an accident because of texting while driving. This act increases your chances of crashing by 50%. Yet driving down the highway at insane speeds you see not only teenagers, but 20-somethings and 30-somethings and even at times I’ve seen drivers with gray hair texting in the driver’s seat…right beside you! These older people are supposed to have more common sense than teenagers. Why when these people know the danger do they still decide to knowingly increase their risk of death or bodily injury? They don’t think it can happen to them. This is the same idea and can be correlated to people and the Internet. The general mentality of invincibility carries across the population in frightening ways. When a police officer posts a video of them burning a dummy with a co-worker's uniform to share with his buddies, he’s thinking, “This will be so funny and it’s just on Facebook. No one will watch this or be able to look at it except who I allow to see it.” Invincibility! It’s a dangerous and deadly mentality. “Man that guy is an idiot for putting that on the Internet,” is a phrase i’m sure we have all uttered. However, another phrase I’m sure we have all said, but more likely only in our head is, “That would never happen to me.” It’s the classic teenager mentality that more and more people are failing to grow out of. How many stories of teenagers getting into an accident and/or dying have there been recently? (searching for less than 30 seconds will produce at minimum 15 stories) I’m sure you have heard of at least one person and probably know someone personally as well who has caused an accident because of texting while driving. This act increases your chances of crashing by 50%. Yet driving down the highway at insane speeds you see not only teenagers, but 20-somethings and 30-somethings and even at times I’ve seen drivers with gray hair texting in the driver’s seat…right beside you! These older people are supposed to have more common sense than teenagers. Why when these people know the danger do they still decide to knowingly increase their risk of death or bodily injury? They don’t think it can happen to them.

This is the same idea and can be correlated to people and the Internet. The general mentality of invincibility carries across the population in frightening ways. When a police officer posts a video of them burning a dummy with a co-worker’s uniform to share with his buddies, he’s thinking, “This will be so funny and it’s just on Facebook. No one will watch this or be able to look at it except who I allow to see it.”

Invincibility! It’s a dangerous and deadly mentality.

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