The meaning of privacy online for the next generation
This article in New York Magazine on the changing meaning of privacy and social norms for the next generation — surrounded by self-publishing and Web 2.0 social networking sites online – is intriguing, thought-provoking, and did I mention very well written? It is articles like this that remind me why we still need professional journalists in the world!
But maybe it’s a cheap shot to talk about reality television and Paris Hilton. Because what we’re discussing is something more radical if only because it is more ordinary: the fact that we are in the sticky center of a vast psychological experiment, one that’s only just begun to show results. More young people are putting more personal information out in public than any older person ever would — and yet they seem mysteriously healthy and normal, save for an entirely different definition of privacy. From their perspective, it’s the extreme caution of the earlier generation that’s the narcissistic thing.
(via Bruce Schneier; also covered on BoingBoing)
Local, printable cache of article: Kids, the Internet, and the end of privacy
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