Thanks, I appreciate the commiserating, it does make me feel a little better.

I agree with you and I don’t put anything that I would consider questionable online, at least not these days. I’m just having a hard time figuring out what adjustments to make in addition to worrying about personal things I’ve already shared, like my gender and race. You know what I mean? I’m a married woman, and I have info in various places about our family planning choices, to give an example. That’s really starting to worry me, but how can I even begin to delete my data? It’s everywhere. Every doctor has their own patient portal, I have multiple email accounts, and I don’t even want to think about the dumb shit I might have posted when YouTube comment sections were new.

It’s all really overwhelming.

Question for more tech savvy people: should I be worried about wiping old data, and if so for which apps? Just messaging apps, or also email and social media? Or can I just use the encrypted apps moving forward?