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Millennials Willing To Share Personal Data — For a Price
jfruh writes "The rap on the under-30 crowd is that they don't care anywhere near as much about online privacy as their elders — but that's not quite true. According to a recent study by USC's Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, millennials are just as concerned about the use of their personal data online as their elders. The difference arises when it comes to why they share that data: older users share with someone they trust, while millennials share when they perceive that there's something in it for them."
Except being made into a product sold to advertisers. Facebook, Twitter, etc. they're all scams. They just scam you for data, rather than money.
the phrase "thank you sir may I have another" has no meaning. they too will learn :) and get off my lawn
I'd say you need them under 25, since science keeps proving my theory that they're still children until 25+
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/tech_assistance/etraining/adolescent_brain/Development/prefrontal_cortex/index.html
This brain region gives an individual the capacity to exercise “good judgment” when presented with difficult life situations. Brain research indicating that brain development is not complete until near the age of 25, refers specifically to the development of the prefrontal cortex.
Seems though that once they're used to being Facebook's bitch, they can age to any level and post justify their adolescent actions. As many on this thread will no doubt show.
... when we old geezers die, our tombstones won't be marked with our facebook addresses, our famous tweets, our most favorite photo we put online, our favorite song list, and so on
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
The older crowd will share info with people they trust, and the millenials when they can turn a buck. I don't see the difference, really -- the only variable is the currency. Trust relationships are also based on a give-take, but it's implicit. In the latter case, the relationship is an explicit give-take. So what this comes down to is exaggerating the differences between two groups -- and gee, go figure... news agencies thrive on creating differences where none exist in order to generate a story.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
There's nothing about "social media" that we weren't doing for decades before that without Facebook and MySpace. We were talking to our friends online, planning events, and more, but without putting some for-profit advertising company in the middle between us and our friends. Shit, some of us were doing this in the early 80's, on the actual internet, not AOL or some walled garden.
I don't blame this trend on the "Millennials" so much as I do on general ignorance and the utter and total lack of technical literacy that became the new-normal after the dawn of the Eternal September. I really believe that we wouldn't be in this fucked up mess of a place if people had used better judgment. Younger folks don't seem any dumber than older folks, but that's weak praise indeed.
You get what you deserve, they say. We are datamined to hell because that's what we asked for.
in exchange for sex.
Is that like a weed that I can use RoundUp on? Maybe some Landmaster?
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
If that eventually translates into 14% growth in profits for themselves, then ad agencies will no doubt try to exploit and encourage the difference.
of course.. millennials:
1. have entitlement complexes the size of jupiter. They think they're owed money/attention/respect because they exist, and that it's a-ok to procreate and then have the taxpayer fund their babies, college educations, and consumer electronics. They have no respect for personal property of others or understand the concept of earning that respect in the first place.
2. have no concept of privacy and think that simple consensus is all that's necessary to justify anything. When the police state is in full force, you can bet that it'll be millennials who form the cultural backbone. Rebels can bet if anyone informs on them, it'll be a millennial who "has nothing to hide."
3. are firm believers in identity politics, which is the ultimate expression of groupthink psychodynamics.
Look, it's really easy to remember how things work, and it really doesn't matter what the market is. All you have to is remember one very simple thing and you will have a clue.
If your not paying for the product, you are the product.
More shocking news from the self-gratification generation...
Similar words have been spoken of Baby Boomers and Generation X by the generations that preceded them. For every meth smokin', Wall-Street Occupyin', Tweeting Millenial, there is a brave, young, volunteer soldier and firefighter, putting the needs of his community and his family above his own, desparately struggingly to make ends meet while being berated and dismissed by a grumpy ex-hippy ticked off that the money he didn't earn with his stock picks in the roaring 90's won't buy him the private island he was planning to sail off to in his yacht.
Gen X may have accidentally given birth to hipsters with our habits of ironic commentary (sorry about that one, guys), but the standard insult against us is that everyone was a Slacker. Entitled? We figured we'd all be annihilated by nukes.
thats it... all I have to say.
At last a way to cash in on my multiple personality disorder, we've hit paydirt.
Nullius in verba
Film at 11.
Who gives a twopenny toss about what a bunch of children think? They'll change their minds when they've grown up a bit anyway.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
People are getting dumber - we already knew that:
If I think there's something in it for me (undoubtedly short-term fiscal benefit or some other trivial short-term-gain), I would give up my privacy for the long term screwing I'm going to get then it's used as a precedent against me. It's nothing we didn't already know about "generation z"
after all the BS i have put myself through over the last decade for our so-called "internet privacy"
I suggest kicking your kids in the balls if they even mention something akin.
No one has bothered to even mention blocking ads and using tools like Ghostery and killfiles/hosts files to deal with the issue.
As a Linux user, I've got all kinds of cool tricks I can pull to minimize my exposure to data collection. One trick I use is to write Flash and LSO cookies to /dev/null
rm -rf .adobe .macromedia /dev/null .adobe /dev/null .macromedia
ln -s
ln -s
I also disallow HTTP/S referer, CSS visited link history, geo location, HTTP prefetch, DOM storage, and allow cookies and scripting on a site basis.
I pay my ISP to use the Internet. I'm not paying with my data. Personally, I don't have one social media account. I don't need them. They will never be required for employment or even employment consideration. That would violate federal law.
Blocking ads and data collection is a duty, not an option. If a company's business model is tracking people for money, they need to find a new business model. Advertising is not a good business model unless you're an ad company. Even then, I'm going to block all ads and tracking technologies because I pay to enjoy a clean Internet experience. Everyone deserves a clean, ad-free Internet experience.
I'm very surprised no one has developed or forked an open source browser to block all of this stuff by default. It needs to be offered.
Center for the Digital Future has a long list of corporate partners:
http://www.digitalcenter.org/our-partners/
The other study sponsor is Bovitzinc.com. Their slogan:
"We are a full-service design-driven research and strategy firm that helps organizations uncover opportunity and drive innovation."
That gobbledygook seems to say that Bovitz is a marketing company.
The article detailing the study is comprised of unremarkable statistics (70% vs 77% want their data private, for example) that show a minor difference in privacy attitudes between generations. The statistics are interspersed with severely biased and misleading interpretations by "experts" who define younger people as more up-to-date and older people as unrealistic.