Facebook, Twitter: How we chose to live in public
Some people celebrated the coming of 2010 with crystal glasses of fizzy yellow liquid. Others used the opportunity to stare into their crystal glasses and see what we have and will become.
Perhaps the most pulsating and sad suggestion is that we no longer have any privacy. You burp in Bellingham and someone quickly hears about it in Sydney. You decide you dislike your wife, so you tweet about it, tell your Facebook friends and then get around to telling her. If you can remember to do that.
Even more bilious is the early-in-2009 suggestion of Laurent Haug, CEO of the Lift Conference, that if we want privacy we have to create it. You know, make your public self the publicly palatable version and keep the insidious pervert you for your special friends.
(Read the rest on cnet.com)
I think to some extent this applies to us lj-ers and dreamwidth-ers. Are folks who use blogger, and the liike, less likely to divulge personal stuff, or is it that you're more likely to find serious blogs on sites like blogger...along with the post-about-random-stuff-ers?
Perhaps the most pulsating and sad suggestion is that we no longer have any privacy. You burp in Bellingham and someone quickly hears about it in Sydney. You decide you dislike your wife, so you tweet about it, tell your Facebook friends and then get around to telling her. If you can remember to do that.
Even more bilious is the early-in-2009 suggestion of Laurent Haug, CEO of the Lift Conference, that if we want privacy we have to create it. You know, make your public self the publicly palatable version and keep the insidious pervert you for your special friends.
(Read the rest on cnet.com)
I think to some extent this applies to us lj-ers and dreamwidth-ers. Are folks who use blogger, and the liike, less likely to divulge personal stuff, or is it that you're more likely to find serious blogs on sites like blogger...along with the post-about-random-stuff-ers?