And the aspect of it that still suprises me the most is that younger people are giving their privacy away, and doing so deliberately and with zeal.

Some people attribute it to a generation gap, with the young adopting a different philisophical stance on privacy that do people with some life under their belt. Personally, I think that gives too much credit to the young, who are cavalier with their privacy simply because they don't know any better, and by the time they do it's too late: the picture of them eating their friend's underwear is already on a dozen Facebook profiles.

Social media has been a huge enabler of youthful indiscretion.