Sunday, March 18, 2012

Smile

The loss of privacy because online archives live forever is starting to affect how young people act:

But today’s spring breakers — at least some of them — say they have been tamed, in part, not by parents or colleges or the fed-up cities they invade, but by the hand-held gizmos they hold dearest and the fear of being betrayed by an unsavory, unsanctioned photo or video popping up on Facebook or YouTube.

It's actually kind of funny. If parents made their young adult children carry surveillance devices to record what they do, the young people would be outraged. But they do it to each other for fun. With the same deterrent effect.

The book I linked to in my post I cite has much to think about in this type of all-seeing society that is developing.