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What a decade on social media taught me about boundaries
The explosive growth of platforms like Twitter and Facebook has forced a rethinking of what's private and what can be shared with strangers, while being aware of the potential pitfalls
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From being a niche platform for a small, closed group of people, social media networks have become places for the masses to connect not only with family and friends, but with organisations and even advertisers.
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Yuen Sin
As a millennial born in the early 1990s, I belong to the last of the "in-between generations" that straddle the before and after years of rapid technological change.
We are old enough to remember a world of pagers, fax machines and dial-up Internet, unlike Generation Z, who were born into the Internet age from the late 1990s.
