I think everybody values privacy, from the youngest to the oldest users.
The issue is that of education--many people haven't made the connection that to get a lot of the neat features they like (geolocation, frictionless sharing, etc.) they need to allow some fairly invasive personal data mining. They don't understand that sharing certain things and using certain apps also causes the data of other people to be exposed.
I think (hope) that if people new more about this, then we'd see the social mores change a bit. Unfortunately, that sort of education and public service announcement takes money, and none of the players in the Valley or elsewhere want to do it, because it would negatively impact their viral coefficients and user engagement.
The issue is that of education--many people haven't made the connection that to get a lot of the neat features they like (geolocation, frictionless sharing, etc.) they need to allow some fairly invasive personal data mining. They don't understand that sharing certain things and using certain apps also causes the data of other people to be exposed.
I think (hope) that if people new more about this, then we'd see the social mores change a bit. Unfortunately, that sort of education and public service announcement takes money, and none of the players in the Valley or elsewhere want to do it, because it would negatively impact their viral coefficients and user engagement.