Amid all the controversy over online privacy, one thing has been treated as an almost universal given: Young people don’t care about privacy the way their cautious, conservative elders do. As it turns out, the meme is kind of wrong. Younger Internet users are just as likely as many adults to worry about the amount of information about themselves that’s posted online, are less trusting of social networking services than their elders, and are the only age group to limit availability of online information about themselves as much as they did three years ago, according to a Pew survey.
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Privacy No Joke to Young Web Users
Posted by: Mike Pearson May 27, 2010 08:31 AMAmid all the controversy over online privacy, one thing has been treated as an almost universal given: Young people don’t care about privacy the way their cautious, conservative elders do. As it turns out, the meme is kind of wrong. Younger Internet users are just as likely as many adults to worry about the amount of information about themselves that’s posted online, are less trusting of social networking services than their elders, and are the only age group to limit availability of online information about themselves as much as they did three years ago, according to a Pew survey.