Social media trends: The bursting of the sharing bubble
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...