[brudgers]

You can’t scare them. They have lived their entire lives with ubiquitous digital surveillance. They are better equipped to deal with it than you or me because they have been breathing it since birth. It’s not novel. It’s not emerging. There wasn’t a time before Google. Before the gwot. Before cookies. Before credit scores.

A fifteen year old has been hearing adults prattle on about this stuff since the day they started school. That’s 2010. That’s Chrome. And Facebook. It’s mature as tech backed by billion$.

The ones out of touch are those of us imagining there are still horses in the barn. Or to put it another way, it’s a room full of smart people and everyone should take that seriously. This I learned from talking to my teen. Instead of at them.