An interesting commentary today in the Huffington Post–well, at least, interesting to me– about the cultural development of sharing our private lives publicly.
While the author suggests that this development signals the end of privacy, I’m not sure. Is sharing our lives through blogs, Twitter and Facebook any less private than sharing our social security number with credit reporting agencies and others who end up selling our information over and over again.
Perhaps better said is that we have “re-defined” what we consider to be private.
As my brother recently said, “We know more about Tiger Wood’s sex life than we do about how he spends his money.”
Jasmine Boussem: The End of Privacy as We Know It
An interesting commentary today in the Huffington Post–well, at least, interesting to me– about the cultural development of sharing our private lives publicly.
While the author suggests that this development signals the end of privacy, I’m not sure. Is sharing our lives through blogs, Twitter and Facebook any less private than sharing our social security number with credit reporting agencies and others who end up selling our information over and over again.
Perhaps better said is that we have “re-defined” what we consider to be private.
As my brother recently said, “We know more about Tiger Wood’s sex life than we do about how he spends his money.”
Jasmine Boussem: The End of Privacy as We Know It.
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