Are today's young people less concerned with privacy?

i think they are definitely less concerned with privacy, i am one of "them" haha i think we are just more liberated in that sense, in my particular case i feel that it is not a matter of privilege to know things about me, i think for me it is a sign of humility that i would pretty readily fill you in on just about anything in my life you might want to know.and i guess in the back of my mind its an honer to me if you WANT to know private information and i suppose in some way i feel that that is a way for you to understand me better ,understanding another person well has its benifits,the biggest of which (that i can think of readily) would be to bring people closer together , if you know me well and know what i do with my time and what i think of things ect.. you will be more likely to be compassionate to me and nice?....i dunno, we live in an era of information, information is the new cool thing, this is why answers is so popular and myspace, in your time it was ...i dunno, protest and liberation, ending old crappy ways of doing and thinking and coming up with other possibilities, and now its all about information, understanding what makes things tic, the whys and hows of everything including people.... im goin off here i guess haha, i think you asked an awesome question! to sum it up i would say its just the currant swing of American culture, i dont know if its a good thing or a bad thing but its just how it is right now.

Not all of them, I'm 19 and I don't share intimate details of my life on myspace or any where else, I keep those things to myself, I'm not a prude about things but my personal life is definitely not a strangers business, so now I'll try to answer the question at the bottom......I think the whole 15 minutes of fame sums it up, people look at some celebrities and it seems they get a bit of publicity from people reading about their personal life so people probably think that they will get attention from others for sharing their personal business and some people are just starved for attention, and as for people on myspace sharing intimate moments, well know one really knows what's going on with those people they could be making a lot of stuff up, as once again they are starved for attention

I think young folks today are more comfortable with sharing about themselves, yeah.

The reason they do so - mostly on the internet - is because of the perceived anonymity of interactions on the internet. When you talk ab out yourself online, you're not talking to other people face to face, and so it's easier to talk about things. It's closer to having private thoughts than it is to having conversation, only they post the thoughts on the internet.

MAny of them, of course, don't really think it through before doing it, and so end up posting information about their identity along with everything else - thus removing any actual anonymity. Sometimes, it comes back to bite them - like when they post information about crimes they've committed, for example.

Yes, you are correct. I'd say it's because they are clueless. They have not lived through a Holocaust-like event, YET. Perhaps once they do they will see the wisdom of not doing so.

Welcome to 21st century !!!