<story><title>I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90315706/kids-parents-social-media-sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>I sympathize with this perspective. I too would be livid and mortified if my family shared embarrassing photos of me in exchange for the quick dopamine hit that validation from acquaintances provides.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m hopeful that in the next several years there is a pushback against social media and the idea that for an experience to be valid, it must be shared. There&amp;#x27;s something to be said for having an album of photos that you pull out a couple of times a year to show a select group of others. It makes the experience much more valuable than blasting out content for everyone to see.&lt;p&gt;Makes me think that Gen Z is much wiser than the Millennials. People coming of age today are much more cautious than those who did 5-10 years ago (lots of drunken party photos on Facebook, etc). They understand the consequences of having information in the world that never goes away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Reedx</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting how that changed within one generation in many cases. Millennials started using the Internet when conventional wisdom was to not use your real name online. Don&amp;#x27;t reveal your age or location. Don&amp;#x27;t post your photo. Use an anonymous name.&lt;p&gt;We went from that to the complete opposite.</text></comment>
<story><title>I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90315706/kids-parents-social-media-sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>I sympathize with this perspective. I too would be livid and mortified if my family shared embarrassing photos of me in exchange for the quick dopamine hit that validation from acquaintances provides.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m hopeful that in the next several years there is a pushback against social media and the idea that for an experience to be valid, it must be shared. There&amp;#x27;s something to be said for having an album of photos that you pull out a couple of times a year to show a select group of others. It makes the experience much more valuable than blasting out content for everyone to see.&lt;p&gt;Makes me think that Gen Z is much wiser than the Millennials. People coming of age today are much more cautious than those who did 5-10 years ago (lots of drunken party photos on Facebook, etc). They understand the consequences of having information in the world that never goes away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sacado2</author><text>Yes. The last generation was taught from a very young age that what you put online is available for all, and learned from the mistakes of their older siblings &amp;#x2F; parents. I see way more &amp;quot;controversial&amp;quot; content on facebook &amp;#x2F; instagram from my older friends than from the younger ones.</text></comment>