Blogging: Self Presentation and Privacy

After reading the piece in the article about privacy and the different theories about what it actually means, I realized I don’t really agree with any of the ideas proposed.

The only one I could slightly relate to was the theory of Warren and Brandeis, that privacy is “the right to be let alone.” People always say, “Mind your own business” but it seems these days that everyone else’s business is just so much more interesting. In all honesty, privacy has pretty much died out over the years due to “reality” shows popping up everywhere and becoming more popular daily. Yes, people do have the right to share what they want, when they want, and to what extreme, but because of the curiosity of knowing every aspect of each other’s lives it is harder to keep that control. Personally, I consider myself extremely private, compared to the standard of privacy in our generation. With the hundreds of thousands of young adults and teens who bare all on the internet with no shame, and pour their deepest secrets out into blogs and social networking sites, it seems that this new idea of privacy, doesn’t match any of the previous theories from the article.