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February 17th, 2007 by empty panopticon

Four days after offering up “Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy,” New York Magazine gives us this (intentionally) mis-titled piece :
“Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Internet Exhibitionists.”

“Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy” posited that the Web habits of children, teenagers, & 20-somethings erode the (illusionary) border between private lives & public spectacle. But this is a double-border : or so the article’s story goes : between these spaces & between child & the parent.

Kids today. 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.

Enter the toy-makers, who can hook parents up with all sorts of filtering & surveillance devices that can keep the bad things out : namely, the pedophile : but, according to the authors of “Mama, Dont’ Let Your Babies…” can’t (yet) get at what seems to really be irking parents :

But, still, we can’t help wondering what the point is. Isn’t it just a matter of time till these kids are showing themselves off to the world, anyway?

&, still, I can’t help wondering what the point is. Isn’t one of the concerns that youngsters already enjoy the allure of the audience & spectacle of the Web? So why add another audience?

Now, I know it’s one thing to have an audience of online friends & another to have a parent (or teacher) watching. But, according to “Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy,” even the meaning of that difference is diminishing.

Yeah, I am naked on the Internet,” says Kitty Ostapowicz, laughing. “But I’ve always said I wouldn’t ever put up anything I wouldn’t want my mother to see.”

&, anyway, don’t these toys just accelerate the erosion of the private? & confuse that erosion with play?

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jenn Says:
February 20th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
It does seem, to me, that the instant audience and perpetual virtual stage often leads to a flippant & thoughtless product/production. I wonder whether these internet spaces (i.e. livejournal, myspace and the like) create greater literacy to a broader spectrum of people or if it caters to an already literate group, providing a space to regress. I imagine a virtual intellectual hierarchy; this image has me questioning the difference between internet intellectual stratification and stratification in wider society. This writing gets me to thinking about: virtual manifestations of cultural capital and how they run alongside more “conventional” forms of cultural capital.
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