It's interesting to have a conversation with Gen Zers about privacy. They generally accept the notion that public security cameras are an "invasion of privacy" but miss the irony of constantly posting on social media exhaustive and intimate details about their thoughts, beliefs, romances, traumas, whereabouts, goings-on, and interests, complete with pictures.

But that tide might be finally, yet slowly, turning. My Gen Z students have recently been the ones telling me about social media "cleanses", whereby they take a break from it all for a prescribed duration, and "grayscaling" their socials (whereby color images turn to black and white, making them less eye-candy-esque—and all around having better cellphone etiquette such as putting it away during class and turning it off at night. This movement is long overdue and most........

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