Maybe it's how you raise a generation that understands you shouldn't post a single thing online that you don't want the whole world to know about. Prior generations have entirely failed to understand that, certainly (cf. Zuckerberg's infamous "dumb fucks" comment—which, go figure, we know about because he sent it as an instant message)

> Maybe it's how you raise a generation that understands you shouldn't post a single thing online that you don't want the whole world to know about.

I can assure you that this has not been the result of whatever is going on at home.

Getting teenagers to care about their online privacy is like pulling teeth.

I think this might be because they get so much positive reinforcement from sharing what they are doing on social-media-platform-Z.

Funny thing is (IIRC) he sent it over IRC, which as far as these things go is relatively ephemeral :-)

Ha, yeah, reinforces the idea that if you don't have crazy-good opsec you better not post anything online—including in places as relatively-safe as IRC or direct messages—that you don't want in the newspaper, with your name next to it.

I still cringe at the immature garbage we did in college over telnet and unsecured NIS/Ethernet Unix boxes not questioning whether anyone was recording packet traces for posterity. Luckily disk space was super expensive back then. :-)