I'm Drunk And Naked On MySpace!

The always spot-on Mark Morford takes on what it means to be part of the Generation Next with his column this week. Does it really matter that a wide swath of society is putting up for the whole world to see, every drunken body shot, every joint passed around at a party, EVERY SINGLE PICTURE from your cheap digital camera that you happily snapped away, not censoring in any way all the blurry, out of context, out of legality memories that will now become part of the information superhighway. Well the answer is mostly no, no it doesn't matter. He supposes that eventually people will get over it, stop caring completely about all the silly shit you did in college, even if there exists a permanent record like no generation before has been able to collect. I personally uncheck all the privacy boxes in facebook and myspace, leaving my online avatar only available to people that I at least loosely know from somewhere. Anyways enjoy the article because his writing is so much better than mine:

It is like watching ferrets finger-paint. It is like watching kittens with ADD chase flashlight beams. It is like reading only US Weekly and eating chocolate Pop-Tarts and masturbating with a brown Microsoft Zune. Interesting for a few minutes, then it's all oh my God my brain is seeping through my toes and everything hurts and please make it stop.