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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I do agree with this. I was disagreeing with the idea that kids these days were just scandalous in ways never considered before. I think they don't realize the ramifications of putting things online, but I think they've always been just as stupid (and smart) as ever.
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I don't think anybody said kids haven't always been just as scandalous. They were saying it was kept quieter before the internet.
My experience is that it's not just that the internet, email and the like make things more permanent these days. It's that kids today have grown up in a culture where so much more is shared than was the case in the past. I have nothing but anecdotal evidence drawn mostly from my own experience, and I'm not a "kids-these-days" head-shaker type. But I agree with 33girl -- in my experience, kids were generally better about keeping things under the radar. People knew what could get them in trouble, so they tended to be careful about who they told things too.
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