[Chapter-delegates] Private Life and Internet

[Fred Baker]

I'm afraid that what comes to mind is from one if the old farts: "if  
you're not afraid, you don't understand".

> "Children today have no shame, shame, or privacy. They are posers,  
> whores of fame, little rascals pornographic who post their diaries,  
> telephone numbers, silly poems and dirty photos.
>

Children in every generation have had this characteristics; Plato  
reports that Socrates thought that the next generation was a  
significant downhill step from his. The point where I worry about them  
is when they do things that have consequences that they don't realize;  
employers today find the MySpace and Facebook accounts of potential  
employees very interesting reading, for example. I don't worry about  
kids posting pictures of themselves acting like kids. I do worry about  
them broadcasting it to people they don't intend, who might view it in  
ways the kids don't expect.

On Jan 8, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Franck Martin wrote:

> http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2010/01/08/vie-privee-le-point-de-vue-des-petits-cons_1289411_651865.html
>
> While this article is in French it contains many links to  
> interesting reports (some in English).
>
> A good overview of the situation, and a parallel between may 68 in  
> France ( The Hippies movement elsewhere) with its social freedom  
> revolution and the current social freedom revolution our kids are  
> teaching us (parents vs transparents).
>
> Basically while our parents were not getting it in the 60s, it is  
> now our turn to not get it!
>
> May 68 (Wikipedia): May 1968 was a political failure for the  
> protesters, but it had an enormous social impact. In France, it is  
> considered to be the watershed moment when a conservative moral  
> ideal (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) shifted towards  
> a more liberal moral ideal (equality, sexual liberation, human  
> rights) that today better describes French society, in theory if not  
> in practice.
>
> In the article there is a reference about the IGF where Kids and  
> Internet is discussed by 50+ year old "farts", who never spoke to a  
> kid and its conception of the Internet.
>
> Franck Martin
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>
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