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GeminiX7

Member
Feb 6, 2019
600
Nervous? I'd be genuinely flattered if they gave a shit. Be honest, even of those of you who have deep ties to your family, can you remember the first names of your great grandparents? Did you ever learn them? People don't really give a shit about people more than two generations back outside of the larger historical context.
 

Z-Beat

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,849
Not really, but I am curious what will happen for some people when this conversation is had

"Your great great grandparents were the most popular amateur pornstars on pornhub."
 

The Albatross

Member
Oct 25, 2017
39,038
No, but I think it'll be interesting how our self-documentation of our lives will change our ancestor's perspective of us, versus my perspective of my ancestors.

For instance, if you ask me about my grandmother's father, I'd say something like, "oh, he was a Polish immigrant, fled Poland on the eve of World War 1, who opened a shoe store in New Hampshire and had a farm, raising silver foxes, pigs, & goats. He forced his kids to speak English in the house even though they were Polish, and he taught my grandmother how to cane chairs. My mother called him Dziadu (Dziadik)." That's basically the extent that I know about him off hand that I could recite... Mostly stuff my grandmother would tell us when we were kids.

But, my ancestors, if they're able to peal themselves away from 4D Augmented Reality Sex Pods, will be able to go to some archive of my twitter account and see that Great Grandpa Albatross had a bout of Loose Bowels on April 18, 2019, probably on account of turkey sausage meatballs that Great Grandma Albatross posted on Instagram archive the night before.

I'm not afraid or nervous about it, but I think the perspective of us as the first digital generation will be different than the perspective of every generation that came before. You'd probably have to go back to something like expanded literacy or the availability of pen and paper before you'd see such a significant shift in documenting previous generations versus the present generation, but even those slowly came to different areas over time, where as the rise of casual self-documentation on something like social media has swept virtually the entire world in 20 years.
 

CrankyJay

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
11,318
No, I'm of the opinion we either won't be around any longer, and if we are, it will probably be a primitive (low tech) existence.
 

Aftermath

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,756
My descendants- "Look at that Cringe 🙄"

Oh well, stupid ungrateful non existent descendants, meanwhile they are probably super cringey by our standards so
 

kittens

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
4,237
What? That thought feels exciting and affirming to me, like totally the opposite of nervous.
 

Etain

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,800
I think I'm out of the running for having descendants now anyway, but what of cousins, or if my brother has kids?

Yeah, it'd be more flattering that they bothered to look me up, and their values may be so wildly different that it doesn't matter, at worst I'd be disappointed at where we went anyway, at best glad that they could be more accepting.
 
Oct 29, 2017
7,500
Nervous might be too strong, but I hate being in pictures (I always look like a doofus) so I don't love the idea of potentially embarrassing photos being readily available forever.
 

I am a Bird

Member
Oct 31, 2017
7,238
I don't regret the videos that exist now, why would I then. My biggest concern is that they lump me in with the rest of the stupid reprobates that live on this planet, thinking that I believed all this nonsense about antivax or supported trump.