the open book of our lives
Sunday, October 11, 2009 by --jk
In our society today with our technological devices it is hard to define the word 'privacy'. Features such as the news feed on Facebook acts as a watchdog for many of us.The idea of social convergence invades our personal space and privacy and our minor details are being exposed to everyone. Although we choose to put that information in the open on SNSs for our friends, there is the feeling of invasion behind it. The information we put out is available for people to see but the idea of showing everyone in our friends list is an invasion to privacy because it is not intended for certain people to be notified of. The concept of privacy has changed for many people today as a result of using new media technologies and SNSs because being notified about people's information and conversations with other people has become normal. Our information is constantly exposed through these sites but if people are concerned about their privacy, they should not post it out in general. Nothing is really private unless you don't post the 'private' information on Facebook.