How are children embracing the Information Age? Are they onboard with their lives being broadcast and their personal information being handed out and accessible to others? Are they even aware their information is being collected? These are questions a lot of parents have; especially, in the light of the recent CIA Wikileaks documents.
So for debate I bring you: Phoenix; my sweet intelligent young boy who also happens to be very big into technology. I let him have a YouTube channel... which I rarely check. Because you know, five kids and it's hard to be helicopter mom when you have five. His videos are 1. Very amateur in quality 2. Very politically incorrect (as are most opinion videos) 3. Very detailed in personal information. So there's three issues we can discuss. Quality, inclusiveness, and privacy.
I'll tackle privacy and let others debate the first stance on the other issues. It seems to me kids are absolutely fine with their information being collected and living in a world where there are fewer secrets, more openness and acceptance. They tackle things without fear of rejection, in creative ways, and with the knowledge of this doesn't work there's always time for another option tomorrow. They give up privacy freely and willingly. How in two decades did we go from a culture and society that privacy was the foremost right people wanted protected to it seeming frivolous to our children? Think HIPPA to vines. From enforcing laws to ensure it is maintained to willingly and freely giving it away.
Also, you have been warned the videos on my sons channel are probably not what most eight year olds talk about or sing about or find entertaining and he gives out personal information but it's nothing you can't find by searching his name or my name through google. Beautiful day here in Oklahoma!