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Just so cringe.
I still put on my resume that I'm the 2006 Time Person of the Year
I really read this as inspirational and cool once upon a time. Part of me still does. There's a lot of good we've done on social media that make my trans friends and family more safe in who they are, broadly speaking...
But there's also a whole lotta bad as well, and it's been increasingly less OUR internet as the tech companies just monopolize and censor and steal data.
I'm not so sure I can manage to find this time mag cover as inspirational anymore.
it was a different time. aspirational and naive.
Naive is probably the exact word for the feeling I have. Good pick
I can assure we some of us were not optimistic.