While I was writing about blogging itself I also want to address some problems associated with it. For these problems, age can be helpful as it mostly affects kids and teenagers who grow up with the web and make it what it is today.
Emily Nussbaum writes in her interesting article "Say Everything - Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy" (NY Magazine):
"As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited"
The article is about a new "generation gap" and possible consequences for the new generation kids of today which are described as:
"They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention—and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another"
As an example, Caitlin Oppermann’s digital life is presented on a nice graphic. By the way – she is going to be the "Customer of Tomorrow".
There is even a “think before you post” initiative to prevent kids from posting too much:
Lastly two quite new articles on the "Open You" and "Online communities and you" which suit the topic.
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