Privacy on the Internet
There is no privacy on the internet.
I was just reading some of the ignorant crap people posted back when theFaceBook launched their 'newsfeeds' for everyone. For those not familiar, the newsfeeds showed the recent activity that your friends made, such as joining groups, writing on walls, creating new friends, etc. Turns out people didn't like this, a very small but very vocal group. A group like evey other Freshman Pysch student that feels they know the world becuase they got their first taste of knowledge.
Welcome to internet puberty folks. Internet Adolescents don't understand how it works, they don't understand that everything you do on the net is tracked, monitored, and stored. They don't understand that everything you write or post is now saved, forever. They don't understand that your location is always known to every website you connect to. They don't know that the internet is more than the web and instant messaging.
Internet people going thru Internet Puberty become aware of all this and have to react. Most get scared that all that shit is now available publicly, like it's a change. Facebook didn't make any new information public, they created a better tool for keeping up-to-date with friends -- hey laddies, THE INFORMATION WAS ALREADY PUBLIC. It was *not* some kind of new privacy error. There's nothing private about the internet or the WWW, it was never meant to be used in the way that it is.
Internet Adults understand and respect this. They know that your personal information is who you are. They understand that you have to respect that the system we use so heavily today is built upon an infrastructure that didn't plan on having malicious users. Nobody foresaw someone intentionally emailing milions of users crap every hour, hell when the system was built nobody foresaw a million users, let alone most of the industrialized world and then some. Internet Adults respect this fact, and accept it. Some day the technology will change, but most of us don't work in the think tanks at W3C so we just bide our time by being careful.
In the end, I guess I just with that the pubescent Internet users wouldn't scream bloody murderous privacy violations when it's only their awareness that has changed -- not the amount of privacy on the net.
I was just reading some of the ignorant crap people posted back when theFaceBook launched their 'newsfeeds' for everyone. For those not familiar, the newsfeeds showed the recent activity that your friends made, such as joining groups, writing on walls, creating new friends, etc. Turns out people didn't like this, a very small but very vocal group. A group like evey other Freshman Pysch student that feels they know the world becuase they got their first taste of knowledge.
Welcome to internet puberty folks. Internet Adolescents don't understand how it works, they don't understand that everything you do on the net is tracked, monitored, and stored. They don't understand that everything you write or post is now saved, forever. They don't understand that your location is always known to every website you connect to. They don't know that the internet is more than the web and instant messaging.
Internet people going thru Internet Puberty become aware of all this and have to react. Most get scared that all that shit is now available publicly, like it's a change. Facebook didn't make any new information public, they created a better tool for keeping up-to-date with friends -- hey laddies, THE INFORMATION WAS ALREADY PUBLIC. It was *not* some kind of new privacy error. There's nothing private about the internet or the WWW, it was never meant to be used in the way that it is.
Internet Adults understand and respect this. They know that your personal information is who you are. They understand that you have to respect that the system we use so heavily today is built upon an infrastructure that didn't plan on having malicious users. Nobody foresaw someone intentionally emailing milions of users crap every hour, hell when the system was built nobody foresaw a million users, let alone most of the industrialized world and then some. Internet Adults respect this fact, and accept it. Some day the technology will change, but most of us don't work in the think tanks at W3C so we just bide our time by being careful.
In the end, I guess I just with that the pubescent Internet users wouldn't scream bloody murderous privacy violations when it's only their awareness that has changed -- not the amount of privacy on the net.