big trouble

so i got in trouble over xmas for never mentioning the kid on my blog. yes my bf has a daughter who came to live with us in 2007 and recently moved out on her own and just announced that her bf is moving in. my god i'm getting old.

henceforth she shall be know as H (more on her at a later date).

it's funny because i actually thought i was doing her a favour by keeping family stuff off of here. i thought i was respecting her privacy. i mean would you want your parent talking about you online?!

it turns out for gen y this is not the case. in fact it turns out i was disrespecting her.

which then got me to thinking about 'the kids' and how they really do approach tech/web stuff way differently than us x'ers do. i mean i like to think i'm a tech savvy kind of guy, maybe a little slow on the adoption of stuff i don't really use (like this sage rss reader which i'm now obsessed with.....5 years later...) but i get how to use stuff. maybe it's just that i don't feel the need to put my whole life on the tubes.

i mean i got onto facebook late in life and there is no way i'd link it to here or put up pics of me on some drunken rampage (not pretty btw). i mean people i work with see it (they read this too) but also clients of my firm can easily find it and i know i don't want them seeing the stuff i put on here!

i've talked to friends who've had to have little 'talks' with their staff about the contents of the facebook pages. their theory being if you want to post pics of your junk maybe you should create a page under a nom de porn and not link it to your work email.

so where is the privacy boundary for gen y? i actually don't think they have one. the public vs private got lost somewhere between email and web2.0 and now everything is just public. i thought maybe once they had finished school, got jobs, relationships that things would change but if it did it was too small a change for me to notice.

maybe that's the problem though, i'm looking for a line and it's more like a blur on the horizon.