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"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was, 'why would I want to put any information on the internet at all? Why would I want to have a website? It is true, Facebook and Myspace have changed the way we live.. most people, it would seem, have a Facebook. On mine, I rarely choose to extend every facet of my life in photo or update form. I rarely understand why people take photographs of their food and post it online.. I seldom comprehend why so many seem hell-bent on exposing their entire personal life for everyone else to read.. And in some sense, it seems that there is so much information online that there is little time to read it. Instead, others are simply putting their own info online, sharing photos from the weekend that seem forced. Remember the days of people taking photos of others? They are gone. Replacing them: Photos of yourself, taken by you, too close and showing too many nose hairs, all because you wanted that 'special' photo for your Myspace profile.. Perhaps the death of privacy is becoming reality because we, as a nation, are fame-loving and attention-grabbing people. We want the focus on us.. 15 minutes of fame.. But what are we sacrificing by our actions? .. Perhaps dignity. Perhaps pride. But most important, for the long-term, privacy. The privacy we used to value like the Constitution of the United States. Would George Washington have a Myspace? Probably not.. But then again, Benjamin Franklin probably would. BRYAN SMOLOCK HORROR REPORT SATURDAY 8:47 AM 1/16/2010 |
The founder of Facebook is stating an obvious fact: Privacy is not a 'social norm' ..