Online kids & personal boundaries

Can your kids be grouped in here: “With personal lives dominated by gadgets, young people are paying more attention to their virtual worlds than the real one.” That’s the email tease to a USATODAY story that leads with: “Julie Beasley looked out her window one morning and saw a teenager changing clothes in the middle of the street.” The story quotes psychologists as saying our kids are a generation with different concepts of privacy and “personal boundaries” than previous generations’. Is that your experience too, parents, or does every generation of parents think its children are more [fill in the blank] than ever before? Here’s something to think about, though: USATODAY says MIT psychologist/sociologist Sherry Turkle “believes [this generation’s] infatuation with technology will lessen, and people will be better able to balance the real and the virtual parts of their lives.”