I Still Can’t Get Over How Everyone Just Posted Their Crimes

My mother warned me that posting is always a Bad Idea

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Published in
3 min readJan 13, 2021

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Coming of age in the golden age of MySpace and Facebook meant that my mother and every single Baby Boomer adult around me urgently insisted that posting anything personal online was a Bad Idea™. Holding a drink at a party? Bad idea. Posing in a bikini on the beach? Bad…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Writer for

Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/