War on Privacy Officially Over
“But we live in a time in which humiliation and fame are not such easily distinguished quantities.”
She could have embraced her notoriety. “I had everyone calling my mom: Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer, Playboy. I could have been like Paris Hilton, but that’s not me. That thing is so unlike my personality; it’s not the person I am. I guess I didn’t think it was real.” As these experiences become commonplace, she tells me, “it’s not going to be such a big deal for people. Because now it’s happened to a million people.”
From a really eye-opening article in New York Magazine, “Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll“ …
Nevermind what old farts say, kids these days just love stipping it bare and laying it all out on the internets. The whole vocabulary of privacy doesn’t even mean the same thing anymore.
