The majority of digital citizens who have grown up in waves are leaving words on social media, such as Post Bar, Douban, or QQ Space, that make people feel ashamed and want to get to the bottom when they are not sensible. In recent years, like “Wandering Earth” actor Qu Chuxiao and Singer Deng Ziqi and other young artists have been dug up a lot of “black history”.

Everyone may say that they are public figures who are affected by these “network history.” In fact, the lives of ordinary young people are beginning to suffer the consequences of these “black history”, Research scholars are more worried This trend will make young people deprived of opportunities to be rebellious and explore.

▲ Random remarks written on the Internet may follow for a lifetime, pictured from MIT

Kate Eichhorn is the author of the book “The End of Forgetting.” She wrote in “MIT Technology Review” about how the “never forget” Internet is affecting young people’s lives.

A middle school student wrote on his Twitter: “The choirs at the concert and their makeup are the only funny things on the scene.” Turning his head, he was instructed by the principal, except him, the principal gave him some The 12 classmates who liked it also trained.

It’s okay to be trained, and many young people have lost their job opportunities because of this recklessness.

Netizen @Cellla found a restaurant job that he was not satisfied with, and then tweeted, “Uh, I will start this XX job tomorrow”. As a result, the tweet was seen by the boss and the other party Angrily replied: “No, you don’t have to start work today! I just fired you! I wish you everything in the future without money and work!”

In 2018, Naomi was extremely excited about getting an internship at NASA. She posted on her Twitter account: “Everyone shut up for me XXX, I got an internship at NASA.” I didn’t expect it , these words Later, because her friend added the #NASA tag when replying, she was officially seen and finally decided to withdraw this internship opportunity.

▲ Naomi’s remarks were just seen by the famous space engineer Homer Hickam, Hickam Indication He just reminded me without interrupting the recruitment issue of NASA

Remembered by netizens :” The workplace is our first place to learn how to really treat people with courtesy. “” Those of us who have been at a certain age really appreciate it. We did n’t have Twitter before to embarrass us as adolescents … This kind of situation is usually severely criticized, and there is no need to kill her career in advance.

Eichhorn believes that these statements do look indecent, but they are only a form of venting. These young people are expressing these ideas in a space that they consider themselves “private” but are actually public. If you change it to your friends and family, you may be fine. She recognizesBecause these young people do need to adjust themselves, but we have made mistakes before but have been forgiven. Why not give them a chance?

At the other extreme, those young people who are afraid that the image of the Internet will affect their future careers, start their own personal image early. Arrived early … 13 years old and started managing his own LinkedIn homepage.

▲ Young entrepreneurs I found on LinkedIn

A 15-year-old LinkedIn user, who asked not to be named, told Eichhorn that he had created a personal LinkedIn page since the age of 13 because it showed a high priority in Google search: “This way, people will I will see my professional side first.

When asked why she wanted to show the “professional side” at the age of 13, she said she was competing to take the high school she wanted, so she created this page. Since then, she has continuously updated her community events and achievements on campus.

Eichhorn discovered during his research that this is not the case. More and more young people in their teens are busy putting on formal clothes for professional photos and operating their “professional side”. This overly cautious culture, Eichhorn believes, will make this generation too conservative and afraid to innovate or take risks.

There is also a question: Will colleges or headhunters really search and refer to the online image of distant to junior high schools when conducting surveys? Should they do this?

There was a lot of controversy last year: Kyle KashuvSurvivor in the Lan shooting. He had already received a Harvard notice, but was later revealed by his classmates that he had said very racist words in a private Facebook chat group when he was 16 years old, Harvard later decided to withdraw his admission qualifications .

▲ Kyle Kashuv, picture from VOX

In refutation, he stated on Twitter: “Throughout history, Harvard employees have slave owners, apartheids, paranoids, and anti-Semitists. If Harvard believes that growth does not exist, our past Defining our future, Harvard is essentially a racist organization. “He emphasized that he has grown a lot, especially after the school shootings.

A TV interview At the time , Kashuv made the above point and was immediately dismissed by the host: “Are you comparing the slave owner in the 17th century with the one who made racist remarks two years ago?”

This analogy is obviously inappropriate, but it also brings us some warnings. Admission to the university is compared to academic and personal abilities and qualities during the middle school. Then Harvard feels that his performance in the middle school is not good enough, which is reasonable. But if a company found this information when hiring him as a senior executive two decades later, should the company still judge him based on this?

If the answer is “yes”, does this mean that mistakes made by your teens will always follow you, and will also define your identity?

In this age, where history has long been entangled with the present, young people may sooner or later solidify their positioning, opinions, and political positions on themselves.

If young people also start to think that what I did in my teens will not be forgiven, will he give up and change it?

The danger here is that young people with extreme perspectives in their teens may feel that change is useless, because people’s negative views of their past behaviors cannot be shaken off.

In other words, in the future, nerds will always be nerds, and stupid athletes will always be stupid, and paranoid people will always be paranoid.

Looking back at the article you wrote in your QQ space / blog when you were in middle school, do you think that person is you now?

The picture is from Imgur