technology has led to a generational divide. on one side are high school and college students whose lives virtually revolve around social-networking sites and blogs. on the other side are their parents, for whom recollection of the past often remains locked in fading memories or, at best, in books, photographs and videos. for the current generation, the past is preserved on the internet, potentially forever. and this change raises the question of how much privacy people can expect?or even desire?in an age of ubiquitous networking. (...) before the internet, gossip would spread by word of mouth and remain within the boundaries of that social circle. private details would be confined to diaries and kept locked in a desk drawer. social networking spawned by the internet allows communities worldwide to revert to the close-knit culture of preindustrial society, in which nearly every member of a tribe or a farming hamlet knew everything about the neighbors. except that now the ?villagers? span the globe. den ganzen artikel hier: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=do-social-networks-bring -- = -- -- = -- -- = -- a n a . w o r d s aus dem hellblauen salon words@ana.ch http://ana.ch/words/ ana.txt seite 444 reicht ana.words weiter! vragen & kommentare & texte, die ihr davon findet, sie seien es wert, dass es die ganze welt erfaehrt, oder mindestens die redaktion, dann mailto:words@ana.ch du willst auch? immer mehr? dann abonnier auch du ana.words: http://ana.ch/txt/444 hast du genug? immer weniger? dann bestell doch nicht ana.words ab: http://ana.ch/txt/444
