I think this is true, but I think it’s part of a larger and more general problem of, essentially, being observed all the time, and also having the record of that observation be permanent. I would argue that this is the same phenomenon as several other problems attributed to social media:
increased obsession with appearance, especially of appearance of health/fitness (being skinny, wearing makeup); fad diets
increased obsession with “the grind”/efficiency; monetizing hobbies; influencers, especially “child influencers”
scrupulosity wrt what people say; “wholesomeness”; purity culture and cancel culture; evaluation of language over message
FOMO; compulsive documentation; keeping up with the Joneses style staged photographic evidence; apologizing for being offline
expecting people to be available all the time/being expected to be available all the time; entitlement to celebrities’ personal lives; oversharing and demanding information from both friends and strangers
Anyway, anyone born into the new millennium has grown up with the expectation that they are being watched, always, about everything, and it’s not even wrong. And it ends up with them conflating wanting to do the right thing with wanting to look like they did the right thing to future historians. Which is a topic I think Internet Safety should delve into, except I don’t think anyone gives kids those lectures anymore.
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