Timely report from Science News on attitudes towards online privacy:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...online_privacy
Adults don't want kids to post private stuff online because it can be misused; kids get upset *only* when it is misused. It is the misuse, not the access, that digital natives find offensive.
Quote:
For those of us over 30, Internet privacy means identity theft and government eavesdropping. Parents fret that their children’s online behavior will make them targets of predators or corporations, or will ruin future academic or employment opportunities.
But people who have grown up online seem to have developed sophisticated standards of privacy in the very public sphere of social media that their parents really don’t appreciate. The attitude of today’s teens might best be expressed as “just because you can, that doesn’t mean you should.”
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