In fact, they’ve gotten even more complicated. So while we have at least resolved that privacy issues are a bit more complicated than teens simply acting out because they’re teens, we haven’t really resolved the privacy issues at all. What was actually going on was that young people were simply the early adopters of social media.Īnd the concern about online predators? Well, even the latest stats still show that the vast majority of paedophiles ( 94% in Australia) abuse children known to them rather than children online. And everyone could potentially be accused of all the same things levelled at young people a decade earlier.
Now, more than 10 years later, everyone is using social media. The moral panic reached such a fervour in the US that two wide-ranging Bills were proposed that would have locked down large parts of the internet for many young people, including educational websites. They were sharing too much, didn’t care about their privacy or safety and, as a result, were exposing themselves to online predators. So much so, in fact, that there was a moral panic about young people and what they were sharing online. Social media had not yet gone mainstream and was still seen as a thing for young people. Facebook was barely 2 years old and still only available to students. Back in 2006, Myspace was all the rage with teens.
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