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A teenage Bob Dylan on Facebook?

Jaron Lanier is worried about kids on Facebook. Some points:

“Adults have “a life” and social networks that exist before they get on Facebook. Teenagers, on the other hand, need to create themselves online from the beginning. This image demands constant attention and it needs to be kept consistent. The problem is that to become an adult you have to do some strategic forgetting.

Imagine a young Bob Dylan coming to the West Village with a Facebook profile. People would say: “Oh look, it’s a Zimmerman from Minnesota… Look at his embarrassing bar mitzvah pictures.” Bob Dylan could never have started a new life in the connected digital world, and this is what worries me.”