My parents generation's favorite pastime is to chide today's youth for their lack of boundaries, for failing to grasp the concept of privacy and placing unwarra

My parents generation's favorite pastime is to chide today's youth for their lack of boundaries, for failing to grasp the concept of privacy and placing unwarranted trust in this unnatural, newfangled "social media" thing. It's rather ironic that the first major tech company to sell user data to outside entities is not Facebook, like my parents insisted it would be. It's the company they've trusted all their lives. The company that every New York Times columnist and public radio host and privacy advocate and concerned parent and anyone who's ever complained about "kids these days" trusted unconditionally to deliver their voices to their loved ones in the most intimate, personal, and pivotal moments of life. That's the one that betrayed me. (Advertisers come to Facebook asking that their ads be shown to certain interest categories, and Facebook uses your data internally to comply with that request. Facebook doesn't share your data with any outside entities (employers, background check agencies, etc.) unless you ask it to, or if the government shows up with a court order. The "violation of privacy" committed by companies doing internal ad targeting is hundreds of orders of magnitude less severe than selling personal information to outside entities.)