letter to your friend telling him about media impact
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Dear Friend,
We haven't met yet IRL (in real life), but I've seen you online and...
we need to talk.
You are growing up in a world where privacy is an old-fashioned concept. Almost everything you do is recorded, watched or monitored somehow.
We have cameras on our computers and cell phones, in stores, parks and on the highway. We check in on Facebook and Foursquare and whatever other check-in app you choose. Your phone goes everywhere you go, and the GPS on you phone always knows where you are.
Invasion of privacy used to mean my brother read my diary or the teacher intercepted a note about a cute guy and read it in front of the class. Times sure have changed.
Maybe you've been on social media since before you were born. (Did your mom or dad post those ultrasound pics on Facebook or MySpace or Flikr? I thought so.) Your whole life is there.
Yes, this is your world. It seems normal, I'm sure, because you've never known anything else. Maybe that's why you don't think twice before posting that crazy video on You Tube, or using those words (yes, the dirty ones that make your mother blush) on Twitter, and "OMG, did she really say that to him on Facebook?"
You're in a relationship with social media and "It's Complicated."
Most of your parents don't get it. (Sorry parents, it's true.)
Well, let me tell you the hard truth that you don't like to think about: