>>Now, I come from a time when whatever I did always found its way back to my parents...

Everything? ;-)

>>We, our country and others, did not realize the civilizing effect of having people live together throughout their lives, over generations.

Will muse on that, thanks. For the Interweb to offer similar civilizing effect will probably require common carrier rules and eradication of anonymous accounts that always seem to be part of the trouble. Meanwhile I've closed Facebook and other accounts to avoid worsening intrusiveness; even my Samsung phone recently demanded access to Contacts if I want to count steps using their Health app, so that I'm now looking at Chinese phones that may be used oppressively elsewhere, but seem to be the least intrusive for Western users. Who would have thought it?