Social media trends: The bursting of the sharing bubble

This short article describes how teenagers are increasingly rejecting the concept of sharing everything in their lives through digital channels.

Social media trends: The bursting of the sharing bubble

Rob CallenderThe Futures Company

The teen years have traditionally been a time of insecurity, trial and error. Mistakes are made and secrets kept. Although a certain level of privacy during the teen years has always been a lifestage imperative, the digital age looked as if it would challenge this history. Privacy was dead, or so it was claimed. We now suspect that the millennial years witnessed an 'oversharing bubble' that undervalued the importance of privacy to teens. What's more, we suspect that the value of privacy is now reverting to...

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