“Being socially exposed is AOK when people cannot hold meaningful power over you. Such is the life of most of the tech geeks living in Silicon Valley. But I spend all of my time with teenagers, one of the most vulnerable populations because of their lack of agency (let alone rights).

Self-exposure is critical to the coming of age process — it’s how we get a sense of who we are, how others perceive us, and how we fit into the world.

Forced exposure puts this population at a much greater risk, if only because their content is always taken out of context. Avoiding exposure for them is not a matter of security through obscurity, it’s about only being visible in context.