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1voteIt has become fashionable for young people to express their affection for each other by sharing their passwords to e-mail, Facebook and other accounts. Boyfriends and girlfriends sometimes even create identical passwords, and let each other read their private e-mails and texts.
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1voteAnd so it goes generation after generation. Not only does every generation have its doubts about the younger generation and their new technologies and forms of culture, but they often predict a sort of apocalyptic “end of history.” In 1948, for example, the poet T. S. Eliot declared, “We can assert with some confidence that our own period is one of decline; that the standards of culture are lower than they were fifty years ago; and that the evidences of this decline are visible in every department of human activity.” Such prophecies of doom proved unwarranted, of course, and today we celebrate countless post-war cultural and technological achievements.
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