How do you deal with digital footprint?

@mindfullymaddie I would go on Google and search up more on this but that probably collects data too😓. I deleted that account and I’ve stopped using ai to cope and avoid opening up. Should this account be clean since I stopped with the whole opening up to Ai?

@rainbows I mean new email account* I sort of feel like I’m horribly doomed even though my friends also did the same back then with the whole escaping from reality with ai.

@rainbows assuming you use chat gpt or something similar literally everything clears after 30 days i think and the most a job interviewer can see is that youve used your email to sign in there, lots of places don’t bother with thorough background checks so unless you’re seeking a governmental job i assure you youre okay

@mindfullymaddie Thank you🫂 I’m kinda feeling a little bit bad right now because the previous comment talked about illegal things and so, when I was younger I didn’t know better and I also struggle with real event so I’m freaking out ish all over again if I’m really horrible person even though the logical part of me knows I’m not but still😕🫂

@mindfullymaddie Am I cooked if I wanna be a marine biologist when I’m older?

@rainbows context matters and its normal to feel guilty you don’t need to beat yourself up for mistakes as long as you realise hm maybe that was weird and never do it again, im gonna go out on a whim and assume youre a bit younger than myself but im an “adult” now and i can still think of more recent real life events i beat myself up for. it does get easier

@rainbows you are not cooked at all dont threat

@mindfullymaddie Yup I am🙏🏽 i spent years going through hell because of it but just recently learned there was me before the mistake and me after it and I learned that I wasn’t a bad kid but I made a stupid mistake when I was younger because I saw things I shouldn’t have seen and wanted to explore causing me to mimic actions? (5-9) I’m still trying how to live with it but I feel genuinely horrible. I would never in my entire life do anything like that, that’s for sure but I understand what you’re saying🫂

@rainbows as a kid you dont know better, even as a young adult you dont know better sometimes. people do things because its learnt, because they think its normal, because people laugh, because it keeps people happy and sometimes we regret that. its just human unfortunately. i believe you when you say you have good intentions and you should too.

@mindfullymaddie It’s quite hard to let myself off the hook even though I know I have good intentions and mean what I say and have also been truthful in my actions and what has happened but still. It’s just the whole collecting data and it comes back in full swing like what if my future is doomed or my friends? What if they think this or that? Or what if they’re disgusted with me? I know it’s true we don’t know better but I’ve seen others argue that kids should know better and so and it triggers me at times, I just don’t really know how to be strong enough to deal with that..?

@rainbows no one knows what your situation was like and everyone is brought up differently. i dont think you should be held responsible for things especially at THAT young of an age. not really an ocd thing but the way i think of it is “i cant do anything about it, i can worry what people want to think of me but all i can do is prove them otherwise and show i am a good person” its a proactive mindset and helps with those lingering feelings of “what do they think??”

@mindfullymaddie That makes sense and that also helps🫂 I agree but I hold myself in my mind as a horrible person and I remember crying in my friend’s arm saying that I felt like I was no better than people out there who went to jail and so. I wanna do good and have been trying to do better, I have big dreams but those thoughts linger at times.

@Cindyyy_14 This isn’t really so helpful because I struggle with real event in childhood but thank you anyway🙏🏽 when things got bad I often turned to Ai for support and like I said, went no filter because I was super worried but thank you still.🙏🏽

@rainbows i understand why this might make you anxious but they just mean planning illegal things :) talking about things happening to you or years ago morally wrong or not wont be further investigated unless theyre super super SUPER concerned

@mindfullymaddie Understand 🫂 thank you🙏🏽.