Growing up with web shadows: How young people are adapting to the new privacy | #webshadows

There are some interesting parallels between the rules at the start of Me and My Web Shadow – advice like “get a thicker skin” and “you’re always on the record” – and the three headline changes Emily Nussbaum calls out in her recent New York magazine feature on how young people are adapting to lives lived in the the age of the open web, Say Everything.

  1. Change 1: They think of themselves as having an audience.
  2. Change 2: They have archived their adolescence.
  3. Change 3: Their skin is thicker than yours.

The rest of the article is well worth a read for anyone interested in this topic. It opens with a couple of horror stories, of young women whose ex-partners post sexual images and video of them online and how they have dealt with it.

Read more of this post at meandmywebshadow.com

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