They are more likely to post pics of them dressed in weird fashions, with alcoholic drinks in hands or other activities that would be better kept off the internet itself..

If that isn’t a good rationale for keeping your life private, it is so you can get a date! Ever Google yourself? I’m glad people can’t look at everything about me – people get the wrong impression very easily.

All of these blogs, pictures online, bulletins – they’re just all ways of trying to make ourselves look cool, when mostly we’re all just normal crazy people, as weird and awkward as anyone else.

You can’t know anyone till you meet them IRL. I think that’s what kids realize – they know to keep their dogs in their own yard, and that adults are mostly watching.

I agree, only I think the younger generation is less concerned about who can look and more concerned about who they really don’t want looking.

Teens and young adults are realizing the implications of posting very private pictures and messages for everyone (employers, family members, etc. ) to see.

The more adults, or professionals, that are on social networking sites the more the young’ns will be concerned about protecting their privacy (i.e. saving face)

Many adults likely do keep their profiles more open, but that’s because adults more likely subscribe to the Robert Scoble philosophy of using Facebook as a business card rather than a more personal level.

The younger generation on the other hand isn’t using Facebook for business relationships and therefore can be more particular about who can look.

As a fortysomething who does use privacy controls, I know there are lots of my friends who would like to use them — if they had any idea those controls even existed, or how they worked. Whereas these things are instinctive for people in their teens and twenties, because they’ve grown up on the web.