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> When this current teenage generation grows up and gets into leadership positions - especially politics, they are all going to have their entire upbringing exposed for the whole nation to see.

But that whole generation will be in the same situation. Everyone will have had to deal with it; embarassing/compromising college-era party photos will just be a thing that nearly everyone has dealt with.

Decades ago, having had an abortion or a child out of wedlock was a mortal social sin. Today, it doesn't matter.

That's a good point. But the only generation that's going to be affected is the facebook generation.The current teenage gen will just stick to whatsapp/kik conversations or snapchat and won't advertise themselves like fb gen did.

In that case analyze the photos sent on snapchat or whatever network is cool today. The problem is not only photos posted publicly (though it's most visible there).

In a way it is already here, with questions if US presidents have smoked/inhaled pot, if they were drafted or not in Vietnam.

I don't believe that it has a huge impact on voters.

Didn't seem to effect George W too much