This week in New York Magazine, the cover story was our societies new generation. They have blogs, post photos online and seem to not want a private life. The article was fair, offering comparisons between the internet generation and the rock n’ roll generation, reminding appalled baby boomers how those crazy rock n’ roll kids actually turned out O.K. Experts in telecommunications simply claim, “You didn’t behave like that because nobody gave you the option.”
The only extreme aspect of the article was Kitty, a 26-year-old bartender to posts naked photos of herself on sites like “hot or not.” I don’t think Kitty is a proper representation of the generation, around 17-21 right now who are most involved in documenting their lives on the Internet. The use of nudity on the cover as well makes the article seem much more racy than it actually is.
It ends with a look at the future, wondering if anything that we documented will affect our lives, careers, etc. Which lead me to wonder, if everyone’s doing it, how much will it affect us? Will it just be a common denominator amongst us all, never proving to embarrass us in the future?
John Lichman @ Sun, 02/11/2007 - 8:49pm
Hey Katy, maybe you should see my earlier post here where I look at the same piece.