Say Everything: cool piece on social nets and "end of privacy"


Snip from a story in New York Magazine by Emily Nussbaum in which we meet MySpacer and LiveJournaler Kitty Ostapowicz (photo above by Alyson Aliano):

[A]t 26, Kitty is herself an old lady, in Internet terms. She left her teens several years before the revolution began in earnest: the forest of arms waving cell-phone cameras at concerts, the MySpace pages blinking pink neon revelations, Xanga and Sconex and YouTube and Lastnightsparty.com and Flickr and Facebook and del.icio.us and Wikipedia and especially, the ordinary, endless stream of daily documentation that is built into the life of anyone growing up today. You can see the evidence everywhere, from the rural 15-year-old who records videos for thousands of subscribers to the NYU students texting come-ons from beneath the bar. Even 9-year-olds have their own site, Club Penguin, to play games and plan parties. The change has rippled through pretty much every act of growing up. Go through your first big breakup and you may need to change your status on Facebook from “In a relationship” to “Single.” Everyone will see it on your “feed,” including your ex, and that’s part of the point.
Link to "Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy_ The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll." (via Bruce Schneier)

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