Privacy

Privacy is a curious subject, and an extremely interesting one. In this day and age of the digital technologies, we are more and more concerned about privacy and how technology is beginning to strip that away from us. But is it really? Sure technology has advanced to the point where it can do that, but it is still our choice to use that technology to do that. In the first article by Samuelson it talks about how we are using technology to turn ourselves into exhibitionists. We enjoy being in the limelight, to attract attention from anyone and everyone because we seek it. Admit it, we log onto Facebook to see what others are up to. And how do we know what they are up to? Because they choose to post their personal lives and feelings on the internet where almost anyone can go on and see where they are at, what they are doing, and how they are feeling. People talk about their problems, post embarrassing pictures of themselves for others to come to pay attention to them. We shop online, some knowing while some don't, the fact that advertising companies know where we are and even what we like based on search and shopping histories. This is all written in the end user agreement, and sure most of us don't read it, or even pay attention to it and just click agree without a second thought. And yet in the end we blame others for our "loss" of privacy when it's really ourselves who are to blame. Because we are willingly ignoring to choosing to expose ourselves to others using these technologies in which we are putting the blame on. I'm definitively not saying that privacy doesn't matter, all I'm saying is that we are subjecting our own exposure to ourselves and we have to take responsibility, and not blaming others for our ignorance.