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Privacy

[(Anonymous)]

It seems to me that our society is coming to value privacy less and less as time goes on. Do you think my impression is on track, or am I mistaken?

I'm just worried that as I get older, people are going to more and more see me as absurdly old-fashioned for being as private as I am. Or else think that I must have something criminal to hide or something. People already think it's weird that I refuse to have a Facebook... once I'm an old man, younger people will probably find me to be a baffling old curmudgeon. I remember, I was always taught, don't share personal information online! Now it seems to be the norm to do so. But I can't shake the feeling that it's a bad idea.

Re: Privacy

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, absolutely, it's what's happening. And there's really nothing you can do, except come to terms with being a curmudgeonly weirdo, and trying not to be too much of an elitist about it (I find that's the danger for me, at least, as someone with generally similar feelings).

Re: Privacy

[agentcthulhu]

I have a Facebook account!

It's a fake placeholder account though. Everything in it is unreal and I don't do anything with it.

Re: Privacy

[(Anonymous)]

Your impression is accurate - more and more, it's becoming expected that you should be "switched on" all the time with social media and talking about yourself and divulging all this information.

I'm not comfortable with that, and I resent being forced to compromise my privacy in order to fit in. It would be so, so easy to stalk someone these days.

But apart from not divulging obvious personal information, I'm not sure how to protect my privacy. Knowledge is power; and I suspect in the future a great deal of power will rest with those who know the most about technology.

Re: Privacy

[(Anonymous)]

Even if it's the norm, no one's forcing you to hand out your personal information. I have Facebook but I barely use it or let it access any of my other sites (I do hate the fact that almost everywhere I go there's a Like button and I fear accidentally pressing it though).

Re: Privacy

[elaminator]

I remember, I was always taught, don't share personal information online! Now it seems to be the norm to do so. But I can't shake the feeling that it's a bad idea.

Sharing too much worries me as well.

I don't like how easy it is to find people. Most people probably won't ever be in a situation where sharing something online comes back to haunt them, but I'm a paranoid fucker so I think about these things. When I was younger I wasn't quite this opinionated about it, but now I find myself more protective of my personal information.

Re: Privacy

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like people are just getting progressively stupider about how little information a skilled hacker needs to find you, and putting more and more (unearned) faith into privacy settings on certain sites.

I'm like you - I don't have a Facebook, either. I did for a few years long ago, but I deleted it once I realized that it's both utterly useless for me and entirely too invasive for my taste. If this makes me old-fashioned, I'm not inclined to care much. I'd rather make it a little more difficult for a monkey with a keyboard to find me.

At the same time...who would want to find me? I mean, identity thieves have enough easy catches to go on, so even if I did put out a bit more information, I'm probably still too much work to steal from. Aside from that, I'm not important or famous or rich or anything - I'm a nobody. And I think a lot of people have that mindset, too, and have simply accepted (consciously or not) that they're just one fish in a huge sea and it's so unlikely that they'd be targeted that they don't see the need to protect their details. Or something. IDK.

Re: Privacy

[(Anonymous)]

I have Facebook, but I hardly ever use it. And I never add info to it or add locations to my status updates (same with tweets, pictures etc.). I always cringe when I see people using Foursquare - that especially is what makes it so easy to find people. I'm a pretty private person though.

Re: Privacy

[(Anonymous)]

I work for a government agency which handles a lot of personal data. We have pretty extensive precautions to keep that data from escaping or being misused or mis-looked-at, etc.

And then I come home and see the kind of information that just gets spread out everywhere... it's kind of surreal.