“The magic age is people born after 1981," said Sam Altman in a New York Timesarticle. “That’s the cut-off for us where we see a big change in privacy settings and user acceptance.”
The disparity is salient when it comes to location-based services such as those offered by Loopt, which allow users to tell their friends where they are. Those services are popular among young people but have failed to penetrate the a large swath of the population, the NYT (http://nyti.ms/aHtnuf) reports.
