To you zoomtards, when the fuck did you fail to grasp the idea that just randomly spewing too much information about yourself online is an absolutely insanely bad idea?
Honestly I wish I knew. I am
just at the cutoff point where it seems like peoples perspective on online opsec took a nosedive off the face of the earth. I didn't get a smartphone until High-school and never had any social media apps until college and even then the only reason I got them was because that seems to be the ONLY way zoomers know how to communicate. Asking for someone's Snapchat is totally normal but if you ask for someone's phone number to text instead people look st you like you grew a third eye in the center of your forehead.
If I had to wager a guess I would say that the reason is two-fold. Firstly I think that the general knowledge among parents about how dangerous the internet is has changed dramatically over the last 2 decades. Secondly, I think that for the kids growing up now this is the only way to interact online they have ever known.
To expand on the first reason, I personslly think the way that parents teach their kids to interact with the internet has dramatically changed between millenials and zoomers. The late 1990s and early 2000s during the onset of the widespread adoption of the internet just so happened to overlap with the nationwide panic about pedophiles looking to kidnap your kids being around every corner. Combine that with the prevalence and popularity of TV shows about the dangers of online predators like Chris Hansens "
To Catch a Predator" and you can begin to understand how differently parents used to view the concept of digital privacy and how that perspective affected how they taught their children to act online.
When I was younger the general consensus among parents was that the internet was a haven for Pedophiles so you should never divulge anything about yourself. I remember back when I was a retarded 8 year old my parents wouldn't let me use the typing features on webkinz because they thought I'd get abducted by a pedophile.
When I compare that to how my cousins who are only 7 years younger than myself are being raised the difference is night and day. Nowadays it's not abnormal for elementary schoolers to have their own smartphone and social media accounts where they publicly display everything about themselves to the entire internet.
As for the second reason, this current Internet where the norm is to publicly display everything about yourself is all they have ever known. If your first interaction with social media is creating an instagram or snapchat account that is directly tied to your real life identity it probably just seems normal. It's hard to imagine something you've never actually experienced. There is a stark difference in the internet pre and post Facebook. Before zucc developed the boomer paradise and/or digital incarnation of Satan known as Facebook the general idea was that you should always be careful about what you divulge on the internet because you never knew who was on the opposite side of the screen.
Nowadays the opposite is the case. You're expected to have every single account you own connected to real life identity in some way or another. Either directly by posting pictures of yourself in real life or indirectly by connecting your telephone number and credit card information to your account. If you're parents never warned you about the dangers of revealing too much about yourself online and everyone in your peer group has 12 different social media accounts where they do nothing but share personal information about their real lives it probably just seems normal to you. Consider that most zoomers introduction to the world wide web is through a smartphone, of which the primary purpose is to take photos and videos of yourself to put out publicly on the internet. There is a reason smartphone companies are constantly making new models every year with higher quality cameras and that's because for most younger people the primary purpose of the device is to take photos and videos to post on social media.
I think that being introduced to the internet through such a device gives you a fundamentally different perspective on internet privacy than being introduced through a desktop PC. Maybe this is just me playing armchair psychologist, but I think that seeing the internet as this strange and alien place that to access you need to sit down at a hulking desktop connected to the internet with wires gives you a fundamentally different view than just accessing it through the same pocket sized device you use to take pictures to send to your buddies on. I think it heavily blurs the lines between the wider internet and your private social media account only your family and friends have access to.
That's just my two-cents tho. The problem is likely quite multi-faceted and these might just be two of two hundred possible explanations.