Youth & Privacy [Was Re: [LINK] Trends and predictions 2008

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:07:11PM +1100, Roger Clarke wrote:

> (4)  the utterance is by an ad agency, whose interest lies in playing
>      down the privacy interest so that it doesn't get in the way of
>      their activities

and if you repeatedly tell teenagers and twenty-somethings that only old
farts like their parents care about privacy, that their generation
doesn't care at all, then a very large percentage of them will believe
it and adopt it because they want to be an outsider.

a manufactured generation gap ready for political and corporate
exploitation.



memes, like anything else (especially including things like "fashion")
can be created and manipulated....a task made much easier with billions
of advertising dollars and a near-monopoly[1] on access to mass media.

remember: all advertising is a deliberate viral attack on the integrity
of your selfhood. some people are resistant or even immune to infection,
most are not.



[1] a shrinking near-monopoly. there are many more different and varied
sources of information and propaganda now than there was just a few
years ago.

craig

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