 20070205 Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll
Jakob and Caitlin, one of my fav Vimeo users, are profiled in today's issue of New York Magazine.
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Mike Lemovitz said... Interesting article, although I'm not sure I agree with it. I don't think people post personal blogs, photos, videos, etc. as a way to achieve fame. I think they/we do it because they like being able to see something about their life at some point in the future, as well as an easy way to share the happenings of our lives with our friends, families, and people who may be interested in what we do, whatever that may be. 12:04 PM said... I just don't think people realize how this stuff is going to come back to them. A 13 year old talking about whatever stuff is on his mind now may not want to deal with that being connected to his name in 10 years from now when he's trying to get a job with the government. By connecting people with their words in such a public way, people can be made to explain themselves years before, which may be acceptable for adults, but it's kind of screwy to expect that kind of sensibility from a teenager or someone younger. I just read a book about this kind of stuff which you oughta check out Privacy Lost. I also read the guy's blog at GlobalPOV and each time a new privacy violation comes out, it's maddening. People need to seriously start teaching their children about their identity and privacy at a younger age, or find some way to stop kids from just putting their names out there. 1:03 PM dalas v. said... Or people just need to accept the fact that humans all have their faults and have all said things they are not proud of. Maybe all of this will make it harder to judge people over trivial stuff. "Hmm, your name looks familiar. Wait, weren't you in a sex video that got leaked over the net? Yeah, that sucks, it happened to my sister too." 1:50 PM Caitlin O. said... I'm pretty confident that this article is not going to deprive me of a job later in life. It's just that, an article. 2:01 PM Zach said... Anon, Actually, when I'm hiring, I ask candidates to submit personal URLs. Blogs are much more meaningful to me than resumes. Caitlin has a job at Vimeo any day. 2:30 PM John said... I enjoyed the article. Generation gaps seem to be forming faster, and wider, than before. In my experience, the difference between the average 23 year old versus the average 18 year old's comfort level with social networking, and the internet in general, is pretty broad... and that is coming from a technical school. 9:36 AM Chuck said... i think there are just different philosophies... like the kids, i pretty much decided to live online publicly - to an extent. i think it has done FAR more good than harm, and i'm basically being myself online and off. i think. 5:03 PM Reciprocal said... Oh my! Can I have a job at Vimeo?! I've just started playing around with it but it's been fun! Most of my films are sadly in AVI format which takes way too long to upload. Anyway I'm a bright, fun, congenial guy. Considering hiring me!!! 3:17 PM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |