An article I found interesting this week that related to the
in class discussions focused on privacy issues related to Twitter. While it
seems like a fairly basic idea—your tweets are either public or private, it’s
actually a far more complex issue.
The article focused on the idea that tweets are being re
published without any sort of permission, regardless of the content. The author
suggests that tweets should not be held in the regard as previous forms of
communication. While everything is ‘public’, it shouldn’t mean everyone is free
to do what they want. Social media exists in a world between private and
public. These sites and applications wouldn’t function if they were either
completely public or private, so there should be some limits without having to
go completely private.
The bigger issue this article points at is our shifting
perceptions of ideas about what should be public, and what should be private.
Only a decade or so ago, what the average person shares online would likely
seem ludicrous. We are essentially living two lives, and one of them is free
for anyone to view.
The impact of this has yet to be seen, and likely won’t be
for a good many years. How will people feel that access their entire “virtual”
lives online? Will nostalgia become irrelevant, when you can look back and see
exactly what you were doing at any given point in time?
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