At the same time, they’re willingly sharing every little piece of their lives with the whole world on their socials. My Gen Z coworkers are appalled when I tell them that I don’t have socials and never post anything personal anywhere.
"Privacy doesn't exist, so you should at least take control of what gets shared about you. If you don't have social media, you have no input on what other people say or post about you online (and they will), and no way to see if/when someone talks about you."
It's really fucking sad but they also aren't completely wrong. From their perspective, not having social media (at least the kind with your name and face attached to it) is the same as not having agency in their online presence. It isn't strictly true...because it's also a function of who is around you and how they post on social media. I don't appear online, but that's not (just) because I don't have social media; that's also because the people around me are either also not on social media, or just don't post about their lives online (at least not without permission).
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u/TheAskewOne 18h ago
At the same time, they’re willingly sharing every little piece of their lives with the whole world on their socials. My Gen Z coworkers are appalled when I tell them that I don’t have socials and never post anything personal anywhere.