There are so many posts about how young people give away too much information about themselves with social networking and user generated content sites.
The amount of data collected by services like Facebook and MySpace is immense. At no point in history has so much personal information and content been aggregated and shared in the fashion that these types of services make possible. Online privacy has been a hot-button issue for some time, but the evercreepier assaults on privacy (like Facebook’s Project Beacon) have created ever-stronger calls for more online privacy laws and protections.
While I really think people have to be conscious about what they post, but I think we really have to try and understand that the younger generations are not like old ones. These dudes and dudettes have grown up being more expressive and are OK with information being available.
Sometimes there is something to be said for people who have full transparency - it’s the old concept of the devils I do know about are better than the devils you don’t know about!
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discombobula // December 10, 2007 at 1:12 am
I’m a not-so-young dudette of 37, and I am conscious of how much information there is about me on, say, my blog for example. If someone wanted to come rob my house or steal my identity, with a bit of research they probably could.
But then so could they without the internet. I just can’t see the point of hiding myself away just in case the big bad man is gonna come and get me. My era of conspiracy theories was over when my perception of the book of Revelation being yet-future did :)
(I came across your blog via The Shack members’ list BTW) :)
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