It took a generation to see the benefits of online anonymity

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
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2 min readJun 21, 2022

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I think that breaking society down to Generation This or That, based on age groups is simplistic, but from what I’ve been observing for some time now, it seems that Generation Z, also known as Zoomers, born between the mid-1990s and the 2010s, seem to prefer to be anonymous online, presumably bringing to an end the previous generation’s fixation with personal branding, attention, and…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)