למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

Will the kids who grew up with the Net (let's call them After Netters) become more like their elders (let's call them Before Netters) as they take on full-time jobs, relationships, children and the other stuff of adult life? Having once craved attention, will they now shun it? Or will they continue to live their lives in public, chronicling their ups and downs in ways their elders will find befuddling and disturbing?

Today, it's pretty obvious that having the HR guy at your prospective employer find photos of college beer bongs isn't a good idea. But that Before Net guy running HR isn't going to be in his job forever. Before too long he'll give way to an After Netter with an old MySpace page of her own out there for anyone to find. Will she conclude drunken snapshots are a sign of bad judgment and hire someone else? I very much doubt it.

increasingly there's something odd about a person who seems to leave no Google trace.

The problem is that the generation that has grown up with the Internet may have access to the world, but they still think parochially, either just about their high school or college campus. When my sister- in-law recently confronted her daughter about about some postings and photos on MySpace that might give some prospective employers the wrong idea about her, my niece was shocked and said, "but that's private!"

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