“Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for  privacy God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online.” – Emily Nussbaum

I strongly disagree with this statement, as it makes a lot of assumptions about today’s youth. Maybe the vocal minority do all of the things stated above, but the vast majority of us are very private about our lives. I, for one, have all of my social media behind a private wall, and even then I pay careful attention to what I post. The same goes for all of my friends. I don’t know a single person who has posted a ‘dirty photo’ online, and I’ve only heard of those types of photos circulating a handful of times. Sure, some of us might post our diaries, but we’re doing it behind closed doors, on private accounts, for very specific people to see. While older generations might not consider this private, it’s more than enough for our generation. As teenagers, we present a very cultivated public online presence to the world, one which doe does not include rantings or poetry or ‘dirty photos’. We post things that make us look good. Everything else (things that won’t make us look ‘good’) is private, in a sense. So, yes, we do have a sense of privacy.