The article hints at how our participation in sites like Twitter and Facebook change our behavior. While a person may have the same number of strong ties, technology is allowing us to have a great many more weak ties. According to the article, more weak ties make us more able to solve problems. There are many upsides and downsides explored in the article, but I think that it's clearly not a matter of individual choice. The great societal ouija board is moving toward more access to the personal information of more people. Individuals may choose to opt out, but there is a cost, and that cost is increasing. People my age and older may be a lot less uncomfortable about publishing their lives, but a lot of younger people are a lot more at ease living in the digital spotlight. I also think that privacy is largely an illusion these days, so even if you think you are flying under the radar, you are fooling yourself.
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Not having read the article, I think that privacy is a fiction, or something we had in an unusual way over the last 50 or 100 years, like the nuclear family is unusual over that same period...so kids are acting like people did before this notion of privacy came to be...the only difference is that nowadays, living in the open doesn't carry with it prying eyes...you don't have to feel those eyes on you; and it doesn't carry scorn or derision for doing something your own way, out of the norm...
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