In addition to YouTube, youngsters have numerous choices in their quest to broadcast themselves in ways their parents find weird and scary. With social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook leading the way, there are no more secrets.

It’s also interesting to note the differences in the ways college students view privacy in comparison to the way they did as little as five years ago. According to a USA Today article, it’s now all about full disclosure and overexposure.

Steve Jones, communications professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago tells USA Today that young adults are “dealing with privacy differently than any of us over 35 ever have.”

The article says young folks like to distribute personal thoughts, pictures and videos amongst peers because they “assume their peers will treat their activities as private.”

Have you kids watched the news in the last, oh, seven years or so? It seems there are a lot of creeps out there and they’ve kind of mastered the ability to use the Internet to do their creeping. If there’s something you don’t want Creepy McCreeperson to see, don’t put it up on your MySpace or Facebook page.

It’s no secret that technology is an amazing communication tool. It enables us to stay in touch with people across the street or across the world, but until students start taking Internet privacy more seriously, there will continue to deal with uninvited guests invading their personal (My)space and getting all up in their face(book.)