Does the Netgeneration value their privacy?

large-genz20 The net generation; it is the generation that grew up with technology. They know everything about the Internet, are online all day and know how to multitask. They all have websites and share a lot about themselves on the Internet. They don’t know how to live without technology. But how far do they go? Is the net generation for sharing everything on the Internet and do they consider privacy an old-fashioned idea?

The Net generation has access to so many devices like email, instant messages and are able to download music and videos. Thanks to these devices these children can communicate very easily with each other. But do they know their limits. It is a good thing that they are so well known with the Internet but they are also very vulnerable, socially incapable, influent for other people’s opinions and shameless.

For example; people placing pictures of their selves being drunk or mentioning intimate things like drugs or sex on their pages, with no shame at all. But it is a public page, for everybody easily to see. Which has many risks to it. Figures have shown that things like this are causing a growing number of failing job applications. Employers can easily do a ‘reference test’ by checking out your website. To them and to others this shows how this person has a lack of their personal privacy.

Therefore it is clear that the net generation is able to go too far in sharing everything on the net. Which concludes that they do not value their privacy like other generations did.