Dear Danah Boyd,
I feel that
these days, people definitely and knowingly let the public into their lives. Now
a days, we read disclaimers agreeing to websites having and sharing our
information. Google, for example, collects data from our searches to find
advertisements that we may be interested in. We are knowingly agreeing to let
Google into our personal lives. They are able to find out more information than
we might be aware of. Facebook works the same way except it is the user who is
choosing what information they choose to post and share with the world. In the
article, you mentioned two cases, one of which the girl involved wanted to gain
attention during a break up so she posted a song lyric so that people would
know how she was feeling. Personally, I have seen and done this first hand.
However, we are allowing people to have access into our feelings and lives and
if we choose to delete it later, it is never actually really gone from the
internet. At this point, by simply using the internet we are sacrificing a
degree of privacy. I think it is this reason that people continue to post on
Facebook and Twitter, because we know our online identities are already being
made for them, so they should have some control over this.
Sincerely,
Chelsey Berger
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