This weeks article by Emily Nussbaum “Say Everything” really captured the essence of what this generation does online. Privacy has been murdered years ago with the development of technology and the usage of social sites. The article first grasped my attention with the quote “the future belongs to the uninhibited”. The article tells us that the idea of privacy is nonexisitent because people ‘freely’ post things, personal things online. Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention—and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another. I can seriously agree with this quote to say the least. Within our generation, the cap on privacy as flew off the rictor. Nothing is a secret anymore and this shift in online privacy could be a risk. I must admit that I am also at fault for this, as back in my high school days there was nothing that I would not put on my Myspace page, that I did not want to be on my Myspace page (I may pay for that later when it comes for career time). But in the same case, I feel that it should have no effect because that was a certain stage in my life, where I felt that it was acceptable. Some of the things that I had on Myspace (that I never deleted) are none of the things I would EVER put on my Facebook account. It is a matter of growth and time changes.
I like the way Nussbaum also made aware of the generation gap and catergorized the changes. I was attracted to Change 2 and Change 3 the most. CHANGE 2: THEY HAVE ARCHIVED THEIR ADOLESCENCE. I relate this change to my self and why I did not delete my Myspace account. It will be a time whorp for me if I ever decided to log back on and see all of the things I did in highschool. This change is why I will not deactivate my Facebook account. It will be my college archive and thus forth on whatever other social online community I will involve myself. CHANGE 3: THEIR SKIN IS THICKER THAN YOURS. This is just a synopsis that the generation now finds all of the things that older generations think is detrimental online, may not be all that bad. Privacy with them was an extreme value, but the rules on privacy have changed. The lack of privacy online seems to be glorified within this generation, the people that are not afraid to say or post anything online. As Nussbaum said, “the future belongs to the unihibited”…
