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Posted by on February 14, 2009, 7:27 am

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I was reading about this and figure this is how to stay ahead of the
curve, should one wish to, FB is now old hat at five years old lol

http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html

Joking aside, it's interesting that the younger crowd seem totally
disinterested in privacy, I wonder if down the road they will be
sorry. 'Down the road' - that's assuming it's not one with CCTV lol
Sometimes I feel Big Brother is being welcomed in!

Posted by on February 14, 2009, 10:18 am

On Feb 14, 7:27=A0am, lucretia bor...@florence.it wrote:

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Umm, I think that SOME of the younger crowd are totally disinterested
in privacy, but a lot of them are very circumspect about what they
post to their facebook and other places. So I really don't think that
they're that different than any other generation in which some people
let it all hang out (albeit via different media) and others didn't.

Elizabeth

Posted by Ericka on February 14, 2009, 11:36 am

epc123@mindspring.com wrote:
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In most cases, I don't think it's the young people
who have changed, but the change in range and permanence of
the media involved certainly raises the stakes--and some young
people woefully underestimate the potential consequences of
the things they put out on the net. On the other hand, I do
think there are some young people who have considered the situation
and decided (rightly or wrongly) that the way of the future
involves significant changes to prevailing ideas of privacy.
Maybe they turn out to be pioneers, or maybe they turn out
to be shortsighted. Only time will tell ;-)

Best wishes,
Ericka

Posted by on February 14, 2009, 12:09 pm

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:18:00 -0800 (PST), epc123@mindspring.com wrote:

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I am accepting of the correction of 'some', it's never great to
generalize and I know better.

However I do think it is different than it was for previous
generations because many actions will be there in the ether forever!
Years ago in the UK my brother and I decided to paint a pedestrian
crossing on a certain stretch of road as a protest to a number of
accidents to pedestrians. We were judicially reprimanded and the
papers covered it. Five years later probably nobody associated either
of us with the deed if it was even remembered.

Fast forward to today and the same event would be there easily
accessible via google in the newspapers, in online court documents,
one's going to be forever wearing the hanging out.

Posted by lewmew on February 14, 2009, 4:00 pm

.An interesting side effect might be history. For about a generation
and a half, the late 1960s to the advent of widespread internet usage
(late 1990s), we were not a nation of communicators. Letter writing
among younger people (I raise my hand as guilty) had fallen out of
favor, we communicated by phone, if at all. There will be a dearth of
those everyday letters chronicling commonplace and historic items.
Now, of course, every view on every matter will be represented and
debated endlessly.

Linda

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