Think carefully
about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Privacy was once valued and protected. Diaries came with locks to keep the writer’s privately recorded thoughts from being read by others. Public telephones were enclosed in booths so that conversations would not be overheard. But now people feel free to post information about themselves on social networking Web sites and carry on cell phone conversations in public places. We would be much better off if we valued privacy—our own and that of others—far more highly than we do.
Assignment: Do we place too little value on privacy today?
Plan and write a 2-paragraph response in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and specific examples. Without specific details, descriptions and concrete examples, your response is graded as half credit. You may not repeat anyone else's examples - be creative and original, OR be the first to respond to avoid plagiarism.
Privacy, a thing people used to cherish when the world was younger, back in 1900s. Now, it seems people just can’t go a day without updating their status, tweeting something, or posting a picture online at least once. With all these people giving away their personal life, they’re susceptible to online strangers who will do anything to find their target. While schools are starting to crack down on internet safety, people still can’t seem to stop telling everyone what they ate for lunch, or where they are going for vacation. Fortunately, I am not as ignorant as most people are and don’t use any social networking sites. I mean, seriously, how is getting 1,000 followers on Instagram is going to help you in real life? Besides, more than half of those people are probably 30 yr. old men stalking children online. Whatever happened to actually going out and getting to know people face to face? Now people don’t care about privacy and just tell everyone what they’re doing, thinking it’s harmless, when in reality, he/she could be risking their life!
ReplyDeleteMoving on, I can’t really blame people for doing what they are doing. All of these social networking sites are free and easy to use. If there is one thing humans love, its free stuff. Unfortunately, all free things come with a price, and the price for these sites is putting your personal life out into the internet where anyone can get ahold of it. Sure, you can just not add any personal information, but then what’s the point of making a profile in the first place? You might as well just create a blog. It works just as well. You get to tell people about what you do in your life without revealing anything personal. However, a vlog is totally different. A “vlog”, in general is just a video blog. You film yourself, carrying out your daily life. It’s definitely more dangerous because now everyone sees your face and can see what kind of environment you live in. Fortunately, this mainly by older teens and young adults, so they know what exactly they are doing and can handle their own problems. Overall, I feel that privacy has pretty much been taken out of our lives. We might as well be taking showers without any curtains and have no doors. In fact the only actual “privacy” we have is just that: curtains and doors. Oh well, hopefully we will stop being so public and actually have some privacy in our lives.
Good luck everyone! I'm first and so therefore didn't plagiarize anyone. :)
DeleteProps for going first. It's refreshing to hear that there are people still out that who do not advertise their every move to the world.
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ReplyDeleteYes, we do place little value on privacy and while that is happening the predators of the outside world could be stalking our every move. People used to take into account that everything would be all right when posting personal information on social networks such as and address, daily activities, plans, schools they go to, and phone numbers. With the words spoken from many experts in today’s world they tell us to be very careful as privacy can be looked at and lead to an outcome such as death or cyber bullying. Everyone has his or her own privacy and we should treat that with respect as if it were our own privacy. For example, the tragedy at Rutgers in which a student’s privacy was revealed shows how privacy can get into the hands of unknown strangers leading people to a downfall in their lives.
People should be aware of what they are posting on their social network accounts, as privacy is an important aspect in our lives that should be kept only to ourselves. People can’t even trust a best friend as they could turn their back on a friend revealing their privacy life and personal information. People who won’t tell your privacy information are the person’s parents. A parent is an excellent example because they are the ones who won’t give out anything because that person may be a child or a daughter in which they love very much. Everyone should know this though, privacy is like a personal belonging to a person, mess with it and it can result to a person feeling many mixed emotions inside of them. Those mixed emotions can hit a person real hard as if they were bullets if a person’s privacy is revealed.
Good local example of the tragedy at Rutgers.
Deletei believe we do place too little priority on privacy. yes people have ways to make it seem it is a priority but it is actually not at all. facebook is a prime example it seems by their privacy settings that it is not a priority money and power is. if privacy was the priority then the privacy settings would be so confusing that you would need an expert just to set it up. though now people use these sites to learn what people are doing at that could end badly.
ReplyDeletethere is a commercial i have once seen discussing this very problem. it shows someone posting that they were going on vacation and someone saw this and robbed their house.
another example of violation of privacy is when someone broke in my mother's car. we had left items out in the open and we thought it would be find. mind that this was my grandparent's neighborhood and was thought of as safe. yet someone came along and saw the items and broke in. this means they broke our car's "privacy bubble." such a shame that our population of man kind can not honer each other's "privacy bubbles..."
DeleteProofread - add details, describe the situation. I am not sure I understand your facebook example. Can you elaborate?
DeleteDoes it anger you? Does it anger you that wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whoever you are talking to, you’re being watched? Does it anger you that whatever you think you are doing in private is my no means actually ‘private’? Or do you not even know? Do you not know that every breath you take, every move you make, every step you take, you’re being watched? Monitored every single day, every night you stay?
ReplyDeleteMaybe I am overdoing it a bit. I did not mean to make you paranoid, and if I happened to, I am deeply sorry. But to some extent, nothing I have yet to say is actually false. It is true, we are being watched whatever we do. But the bigger issue here is that we are yet to care. Only when someone stands up and says being watched and heard for our, (Quote) “Own Protection” (Un-quote), is bad, will we actually stand up for it. Still, when we draws our signs and write our blogs are we just being clear-cut hypocrites.
Daily do we see (And sometimes do) people who chat on their phones to friends and families, talking about their daily life and how ‘Dad has gotten fat’ in public places, rant about their daily lives on Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr and such, and post all about ourselves to random people constantly. In some ways to me, it’s humorous. But I still know I have fallen into this status quo. I even post personal information online and even worse, talk about it daily. I am so used to it I can’t stop even when I want.
So, yes. We do place too little value on privacy. But is it our fault? No, I truly, honestly do not believe it is our fault as humans. And as with so many other things, we can’t blame Obama. We really have to blame society and how it has changed with us and our portable computers that post in everywhere we go, half past every hour. Maybe the Government a bit, with how they listen to us talk on this phone and read out text messages (May or may not be true), but overall, it is our society that is placing less and less value on privacy as our thirst for knowledge on how everyone lives their daily lives grows.
But, who really cares enough to say anything?
Not many people, no. Not many at all.
I may not be first (Good job, Erick), but I hope I did a good job. I did this all off the top of my head after reading the prompt, and I swear by the rotting remains of my ancestors that lie in fields among many other corpse that lie in repose that I did not, in any way, plagiarize any aspect of my response. Anything that seems remotely similar to anyone else's response is simply coincidental.
DeleteGood ideas. I'm curious...what do you think makes our society so preoccupied with sharing information that was deemed private by our predecessors? Is it evolutionary in some way? Isn't society comprised of humans, and therefore the problem at hand is the fault of us as humans? Is it a human need to be recognized and acknowledged that drives us to post about ourselves, for validation? If we do not exist on the internet, do we exist at all?
DeletePrivacy is very precious to most American teenagers. But there are some people who like to update what their every move, and constantly upload pictures of them to instagram, or videos to vine. These people do not realize the dangers they face, they are exposed and privacy is no longer imperative in their lives. Nobody cares if you just took a shower, what you are going to wear tomorrow, what you’re eating or the new pair of shoes you bought (If I’m wrong please express your feelings in the comment section below). The value of privacy is diminishing and soon people may not care if a stranger knows where you like to hang out and other PRIVATE things about them.
ReplyDeleteI have an instagram, and each time I log on I see people taking “selfies” with their “boo’s” or boyfriends/girlfriends. This isn’t keeping your business private, only those people should know what is going on in their relationship or what activities they participate in with each other. Also, on social media websites profile are left open to the world, so your creepy neighbor could know what’s new in your life before your family and close friends. Without privacy settings predators are able to access critical information about your life like your address, somewhere you like to hang out, and where you go to school. These people place too little value on, privacy is imperative for survival. Without it, chaos would break out and kidnappers would have a field day.
Why do you think people post such mundane things as their lunch menu on their profiles? What is it about society that we have devolved into the distributors of useless (and potentially dangerous, as you state) information about ourselves? What is a person hoping to get out of online contact of the manner you discuss? Try to analyze the behavior.
DeleteWhen you think about individual peoples safty you can see how much its changed from the old days. For example back in the 1800's there was no internet or even phones not even telegram. So people were very private they only talked to there family members. For example they they were so concerned about there valubles that they would use these trains to trans port there money when going some were. These trains would have 50-100 armed soldier garding one train wagon from robers. Then these people would go on anther train at the same time to the same place. So if robers jumped on to passinger train they would not get away with all the passingers money.
ReplyDeleteNow in todays world people are not that private anymore they post personal information online like who they like. Also post pictures of them selfs for complete strangers to see. In this case is contributing to cyberbullying.For example the University of California thwere was a insadent with a lesbian student who comited suicide because the entire campus was making fun of her online. Also it is condributing for perverted things. For example and old man or woman thats a pervert might see and post the picture on the wrong website.
Nice historical examples.
DeleteI feel there are positives and negatives to the topic of privacy existing in the world today. How privacy issues can result in negative results is the privacy of the internet with the whole public chat sites where people are free to post their personal information can have its negatives and positives. It is up to the beholder whether they chose to post the information about themselves in the first place. A lot of people do not value privacy today and need too. People will post information online and make them-selves reliable to people as an online tracking device. People post where they are eating, what they are eating, along with what they want and/or are in need of. That sort of thing can get hackers along with pedophiles to keep watch over these innocent people and wreck their lives. I feel, there should be more restrictions to what people are allowed to say online. There should be reminders also, on every chatting game/website to remember that this information posted is allowed to everyone and one should be mindful to what they say online. Also, in every single store/restaurant/school I have been in so far, there are always cameras inside them and possibly security. That goes to show just how our society is today and how it gets harder and harder to gain people’s trust. Every day someone somewhere turns on someone else and it could be from their personal information being exploited.
ReplyDeleteHow the amount of non-privacy allowed that is positive is this. There are cameras, say, in a nearby outlet and someone robs the store and makes out like a bandit. The lack of privacy in that outlet could’ve got that robber behind bars. Sometimes a lack of privacy is needed to prevent issues from occurring. If someone gets bullied there can be proof by a recording of it from a nearby security camera.
An excellent first paragraph.
DeletePrivacy is defined as the state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs. It isn’t that difficult to tell that generations before ours cherished it more then we do. It is most likely because of so many social media websites where people write and express anything they want like it is their own diary. For example, there was a video on YouTube called “Facebook Parenting: For The Troubled Teen” in which a man shoots his daughter’s laptop for posting rude things about her parents on Facebook. This girl was using Facebook as a diary in which she disrespected her parents by detailing her issues with them online. When you put something like that online, anyone could see it, even parents. In the end, this girl was left without a laptop. Things such as this should never be posted online. It is a personal problem that the girl should have handled with her parents and not have posted online. Another example of people not keeping things private online is when I was watching a YouTube video and I saw someone had written their number in the comment section below. This means that anyone who watched that video had access to their number. That is very dangerous since anyone can dial that number and it is nearly impossible to tell who even with caller ID. Once something is posted online, it will always be able accessible even if it is removed. This goes for any pictures, comments, posts and such. The major issue in our society, cyber-bullying, can begin because of this. This privacy issue can continue into their daily interaction with one another. There are people who gossip about other people. If someone confides in one person with a secret, then that person can tell everyone and then everybody knows. Their business is no longer private anymore. This happens often with celebrities. Everybody knows what is happening in their lives and there are always rumors about them. Once you are famous, you no longer have a private life.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, even though it is important to keep things private, there are some things that shouldn’t be kept to one self and should be shared with another person. For example, if someone is being bullied or feels depressed, they should tell somebody. People sometimes think that others can’t help or feel embarrassed and therefore, they don’t tell anybody. However, it is important to tell somebody else so that the situation doesn’t get worse. A person who is going through tough times needs somebody to talk to. The question the person must answer is, who do they trust? No one but, that person can answer it. Once the problem is resolved, it can make life easier. If problems arise, people may feel like they need to tell someone before they feel like they are going to explode. You don’t have to say everything but, it feels good to get a weight off you shoulders. However, the person shouldn’t go online and spill out all their secrets to people online because anyone can see it. If anything happens, it is important to have someone to trust so that they can help you. Of course, it is important to have a private life but, if there is a serious situation going on it is important to tell a reliable person.
Excellent YouTube examples.
DeleteThe lack of privacy that people have nowadays is astonishing. I think that the use of internet has a big part in this issue. Social network sites such as Facebook or Instagram all require you to put information about ourselves. But we often put a little to much info., that should be kept discreet. An example is when people put their address on their profile. That is something people have to keep to themselves. People have been becoming very conspicuous when it comes to conversations and having them in public. For example, when people make friends, some start saying their personal things without even knowing it. Or they have conversations over the phone in public and nose people over hear and for example, now know that you are going out of town for the weekend.
ReplyDeleteRemember to have a minimum of 2 detailed paragraphs - complete with at least one example each. Also, do not use examples that others have used and describe the dangers.
DeletePrivacy should strongly be valued at most by others and yourself. When it comes to expressing one’s feelings or issues, people should do so privately. It is ridiculous how internet users nowadays post negative comments about themselves, their family, and relationship statuses in facebook, twitter, tumbler, blog, and many more. There is no possible explanation of why one should post any critics for everyone to see. It presents the negativity and how unintelligent the user is. One of the worst posts that occur often within some certain people is posting pictures of them cutting themselves or commenting how they harm themselves. It is really disturbing to know how a stupid reason could cause some people to be so unoptimistic that they don’t love themselves. It is also more odd how they only wanted positive feed backs, other than critics from anyone who’s disturbed, which is impossible to seek for someone who’s a ridiculous attention seeker. The surfers or the reader would feel frustrated from not knowing what to do or say. From the origins of how diaries should be used, it is believed highly that one’s feelings should be kept to themselves. And more than anything, individuals should learn how to be strong for themselves and be on their own, because nobody cares and loves your opinion more than you do.
ReplyDeleteArguments within social media occurs often, due to the foiled opinions within so many users. It is important to try and understand people who go through their problems in varieties of cases. If people learn to keep things to themselves rather than putting up bad comments and turn down the opposing side and thus pass it on to other people or make rumors about it, the social media world would be a more peaceful place to explore. It is highly important not to go in and interfere with other’s affair, but one should not be revealing their businesses in public from the start, if not intentionally. When talking on the phone, if it’s something important that shouldn’t be heard by the public, the person should walk to somewhere quiet to talk. As an example in most common cases, when an inappropriate or secret conversation is taking place in school, the people should rather go to somewhere isolated where it’s really quiet. To prevent rumors effectively, continuing the conversation after school to away from the public, and thus stay on school work should be proceeded. Being rumored would less likely to take place, if you know how to respect your privacy.
Nice work.
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In modern society, we do lack the true value of privacy. The meaning of privacy is not only being able to keep your business to yourself and being able to keep things about yourself to yourself, but allowing all you information, morals, and values to belong to yourself and whomever you may share it with. That is the true meaning of privacy, and we have lost the meaning of it through technology and magazines, and all the advancements that the world has been through in the past decade.
First of all, the world has lost the true value of through technology and modern forms of writing. For example, notice when entering a store, selves are filled with magazines that share vast knowledge of information. But, a huge proportion of this knowledge is about people. To be more specific, Hollywood Life, both the magazine and the website share knowledge on famous people. But the knowledge that they share about these people is none of their business, and therefore it shouldn’t be shared with the public. This is a lack of privacy to whomever the magazine is discussing about. The worst part about is that the Company has no limits to exposing anything about the individual that they chose to talk about. It’s not only the magazines, but it any form of technology, business can be shared.
Second, the world has the true value of privacy because of the internet. The internet is huge database, that allows the user to pull up information of his choosing. But as helpful as the internet can be, it can also be dangerous. For example, social networks such as “Facebook” or “Myspace” allows users to create a page, a website link, that describes themselves, and allows them to reveal information about themselves that should be private. Information such as location, job, and contact information should never be revealed to the public . It dangerous to expose this type of information to the public because you never know who may get a hold of it and how they might use it. Our society has lost the true meaning of privacy, and if we don’t catch ourselves and correct our mistake, we could be putting ourselves at great risk.
I like your criticism of gossip magazines.
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ReplyDeletePrivacy is the best thing any human will ever need in his/her life. Sometimes you have to get away from the world nowadays. But, now I’m seeing that we are getting less of it. Not too long ago my father came home saying that someone hack the computers so they can see who is on the other side of the screen. To me this is a scary thing because what if I forgot to turn off my laptop and someone is looking through my camera and just watching. Very creepy idea. Although, my father was able to get the hacker out of the system there is no telling when the next person can get into the system.
Now to me personally I like my privacy because it’s nice and quiet and I don’t have to worry about anything, but for someone to take that away gets me irritated. All I wish is to be left alone and watch TV or play games. But seems like now in our world no one cares about privacy, I mean everyone post stuff on facebook or twiter or any of those websites. All just seems pretty stupid (no offence to my classmates that do this if you actually care to read this). Overall I think we are caring less for our privacy, not like I’m saying it’s a bad thing but, some things need to be kept secret and its very embarrassing if those things get out.
Good example in the first paragraph, but someone already used facebook and twitter. Remember not to repeat examples.
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Privacy, not too many people really have this, especially with the technology we have today. One example that I hope no one used are the front cameras on phones. I was watching a movie called the Avengers, and the government was looking for someone, and they stated that they were looking through all the lenses on phones, computers and anything that can with a camera on it. I then felt a little bit strange, I felt almost violated that there was a possibility of my front camera watching everything I do. It just gave me chills thinking their was someone recording and watching every time the camera was pointed on me.
I think that people don't care much about privacy, they post anything and everything they can online. With all the technology we have today, the government may have even more crazy and advanced technology. It wouldn't surprise me if they saw everything we did, everything we ever typed, everything in general. It truly does amaze me, the things that people post online, whether it be girl doing those god awful duck faces, or people posting that they got bit by a bug. Seriously, who the heck cares! People today don't have enough privacy, when ever I post something on instagram, I make sure that it would be something I wouldn't mind my parents seeing, unlike other people, I don't want to be stereotypical, but girls, I'm not saying all, but some post pictures of themselves in just their bras and underwear. I almost guarantee that if they walked around like that they would feel so exposed and uncomfortable.
It does seem that people post things online that they would never be comfortable with in real life. Wonder why?
DeleteMy view of privacy is very imporrtant. I think this because if you dont have rivacy others may find out what you are talking about or are doing. Since people will know what you are doing or you planned. Their are a lot of strangers and creeps out in the world. Some people listen to your conversatios and they can plan to do something bad to someone. If you are a talking about a party on an webpage like Facebook, Instagram, and twitter a creep may get into your conversation. Once they get into the conversation they might end up going to your party and you won't know they got into your conversation.
ReplyDeleteIf websites had more privacy not a lot of people would do these things. People should be careful because these people can even hack an account and be a child predator. Many deaths may occur if people get into conversations and when you least expect it someone can get take you or even start a conversatio with you and you wont notice who it is.
A bit short - remember to explain each example, not just list them.
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ReplyDeletePrivacy is now and days not as private as you think. Privacy also depends on what you do and write on a social networking site. A lot of kids couple of years ago would post daily, if not constantly, posting comments about what they are doing or where they are going post such as, “at the mall,” or ,”omg at Becky’s house having fun lol !” These were typical post and pretty much people posted everything. Whether it be about some they like/ hate, talk about the mood they are in, or places they are going to. For Facebook, if anyone wanted to see what you post they would have to request you and then you could decide whether you wanted to add them or not. if you post something on Facebook about where you will be going in the next 30 minutes everyone that you have as a friend will now see it, even if you don’t know some of the people on your friend list. Twitter is little different. Not so much safe though. Twitter allows anybody to see what you post. Of course you can input privacy, but not many people do that. Now twitter is number one social network where people post everything living thing they think or do or feel. Therefore twitter is less private.
Those are just two social Medias that are big. There are social networking sites/ apps being made every couple months. Instagram is also not the best private social media unless you know what to post. Some people post pictures of where they are or in their bio they put their state or town. This isn’t very private from stalkers. You must be careful with what you post because anybody can see it and possibly “hunt you down.”
Try to think of other issues of privacy - others before you used social networking sites.
DeleteMany people see that we lost privacy and that it is a bad thing. However in some cases it could be a good thing. For example the government being able to listen to our conversation on the phone. This could be good if they are trying to catch a fugitive. They could track them down and capture them.
ReplyDeleteIn many cases this has been helpful to find the people. But still people do not see this as a help. The people of this time see it as an invasion of privacy.
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DeletePrivacy was once a cherished value that all humans had, and believed they had. Now there are those who go every day on instagram, posting pictures of themselves, and hash tagging all these “Selfie Sundays”, “Transformation Tuesday”, “Throwback Thursday”, “Women Crush Wednesday”, and so on. Then there are social networks such as twitter and Facebook where some people update every detail of their life. For example they go on everyday and say, “Bout to Shower lol”, “Just got out the shower #Clean”, “Exercise time ;) #Abs #Workout” and all these silly and unwanted details of someone’s life. Me personally, hate those kinds of people, but sometimes I do fall into the bandwagon of the social networks. In addition, I’m the kind of person that feels that it’s already have to deal with people in school, so I don’t want to deal with you’re personal issues and events in life, especially if you’re going to poop
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, privacy seems like it no longer exist or means anything to anyone. For me, I appreciate all the privacy I can get. I don’t update my twitter and instagram constantly and continually. I love to sit in my house, play my video games, read a book, with out posting a picture of it, nor tweeting about it. Moreover there are people who seem to be just plain thoughtless about their privacy. They will post whenever they are going out and mentioning that their house is empty as well! #You’reStupid. In addition there are people where they post pictures and they personally enable the settings in where the picture indicates where and when it was taken. Everyone should be aware of these posts, but all people worry about is whether they get likes on their post.
Likewise, some people need to keep their body private to themselves. There are disgusting men posting half naked pictures, as well as women just posting pictures of them topless or even nude. The problem now, is that it’s okay, as long as you have over a thousand followers on that social network; they get to say and post what ever they want, because their followers will attack like you like ravage beast if you offend that person. Due to this lack of privacy now, it barely exist among these people, there are people making videos with strangers, pranks to take selfies with strangers all these funny, but unnecessary actions. Privacy sooner or later will be vanished in the future that lies ahead of us.
You have good examples, but social media was used in the previous posts. I do like your elaboration of the ideas though.
DeleteIn the past privacy was greatly valued by most people and individuals kept to to themselves in a more private manner. Now a days privacy is a thing that people throw off to the side by choice. There are still people that keep to themselves but those numbers are depleting quickly. In some cases people should be more private, like in public. Taking loud obnoxious telephone calls in the middle of public is something that should be private. People don’t want to hear telephone conversations about what some other person is doing or what they should have done. It is impolite to disrupt the public because of personal affairs.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to social networking privacy is a whole other subject. Social networking is made to keep in touch with a group of people which takes away the element of privacy. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook,and Instagram are meant to appeal to friends and to interest a group of friends. Maintaining privacy on a social network is difficult because most social networks are meant to be shared. If an individual has a problem with another individual sharing too much they should in most cases keep it “private.”
Remember to use original examples. I used the phone conversation one in class and many people used social networks.
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Privacy, once was something that everyone valued and admired as something important to them. Now more and more each day we see pretty much everyone on their phones updating status’ and profile pictures, they just can’t seem to get off their phones. I am one to blame when it comes to this, I admit it, but yeah even though we go on our phones 24/7 to check if someone liked our status or profile picture doesn’t mean we don’t have privacy. Now a days privacy has decreased within teens. Teens post pictures and status almost every hour of the day whenever they can and if their profile isn’t on private then anyone can see these photos and status and track teens down.
Also, people post where they’re going , when they’re going, and who they might be with at the that time and people can pretty much see this as well. There are so many child predators and stockers everywhere especially online and if you not in your profile what down and street you live in and on, then someone you don’t know can look that up and find you and essentially stock you without you knowing. That’s the scary part, not knowing if someone is stocking you. if you feel like someone is stocking you, most likely no one is, but its better to be safe then sorry and keep your stuff private.
Why do you think people feel the need to post this? What does it do for them? Evaluate what our society has become - selfish? egotistical? vapid? Remember to use original examples - some of the ones you mention were used by others.
DeleteIn modern society, it seems like privacy is an odd subject. Of course, there is the stereotypical Instagramar, Facebooker, etc., who are always there, posting their status, or taking pictures of the cutest squirrel or whatnot. These people really don’t think about privacy, rather just wanting attention, and finding this the easiest way to get just that. Obviously, these kinds of people don’t really have a moral stake in the the land of privacy, rather in the vanity of the limelight. This will definitely not end up well for these people, for when you sacrifice privacy for a little amount of “fame” you can attract the wrong crowd, mainly stalkers and child molesters.
ReplyDeleteHowever, there are people who'd do value privacy. In Europe, there was a man who, on Tuesday, slammed Google for their very misleading privacy settings. He then filed complaints with the data protection authorities of Norway, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Poland. That’s a lot of Europe! The settings he protested where that Google was allowed to use your photos and information in ads that you liked. For anyone, it should be appalling that a company like Google was able to get away with something like this for so long, and this man stood up for the civic right of privacy. However, it does seem that the majority of people do not place a large enough emphasis on privacy, which is sad. It seems it is up to people like the man in europe to lead the way for the road back to privacy.
Excellent and original example. I like that you tied the lack of privacy to vanity.
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The topic of privacy in today's world can be described as not having a lot of it. I personally feel that no importance is put on society nowadays. Everybody can know everything that they want to know about a person at an instant. That is especially due to technology. With Google, you can look up anything about a person just by searching up their name. Anything that has ever been posted by a person can be found out. Their full name, their phone number, and maybe even their address! It ultimately depends on the kind of person that posts things to many different websites. It doesn’t even have to social networks either. It can be anything that was ever written about you online. This lacks a lot of privacy, and also endangers your safety.
Privacy used to be very much valued many, many years ago. This just keeps on changing. Once again, in my opinion, thats strongly due to the enhancement of technology. Cameras also kind of affect our privacy when you think about it. Almost every place that you step into, that isn’t a home (on most occasions), has a camera following you around! A person can’t even take a breath of fresh air without some company taking it in on film. Cameras are used to protect others safety, but once you realize it, it has some negatives. And that is due to our privacy level.
Good examples. Why do you think people feel the need to document everything? Does life get too hectic? Are we a society of ego-maniacs? Do we want attention?
DeleteJonathan Meyer
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Do people really have no sense or care for privacy? Is it true that everyone lets loose their wild daily lives to everyone in the world, on purpose? Now I am not writing to try to totally defend people and right the wrongs they have done with their private information. I will however stand up for them just a little. A lot of people on Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc., really do think that their information is private. On Instagram there is an option to make your profile private, now if it is actually private is not necessarily true. I believe that many people are under a false impression of privacy. They are told by the websites they are on or the apps they post on that their information is only seen by who they choose and that no one else can see it. Most people on Instagram or twitter aren’t truly aware of the intensity of how easily people can find their info, I mean the app says it’s private so it is right? People are fed false security about their info, and that isn’t their faults. It is not ones fault that others can hack into accounts or search up pictures or look things on Google (or Bing for some). When you are told by the site you use that your information is secure you would most likely trust the site, you can’t control how safe they make it for you. In America citizens were told that their phone calls and texts and searches on the internet are safe, but the NSA has been observing and recording all of this for a long time. Americans were falsely told that was all safe, and when it wasn’t they still can’t prevent it.
People can try to say that everyone on Earth is showing all of themselves to everyone, but do these people critiquing others actually think, “Did they post that purposely for everyone to see, or just their friends who they follow? Did she take a selfie so that a 50 year old man can check her out, or for her BFF and boyfriend?” And you can say that “no one cares about you taking a shower,” but maybe some do. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean their friends don’t as well. Now my argument was jumbled and it was sort of a rant, but after reading some other responses I really felt the need to get this side of the argument across. Privacy isn’t a lost art, it’s just like an old battered and worn down barrier wall, it’s not broken it just doesn’t work as well as before to keep things safe and secure. False impressions of privacy also doesn’t help, it’s like half efforts of rebuilding the wall that just makes it weighed down further and eventually, will make it collapse. People do care about privacy, but others seem to make it impossible for them to get it.
Also, I realize now that some things mentioned are repeats of other such as Instagram, but I hope it's not plagiarism because my ideas and thoughts on them were different and original from others.
DeleteAn interesting and intelligent view point. Well done.
DeletePrivacy used to be important and valued, but what about now? No one seems to comprehend what the word defines as. People share their private information around their social networks like it’s no big deal. Some don’t care because they don’t respect themselves enough. Several people may feel worthless or ugly but online, people complimenting the insecure individual every time they post a picture or update a status makes them feel better. They are willing to show or spread as much personal things as they want on social networks for attention. They may feel like a ‘somebody’ because they are called a loser in person instead of media.
ReplyDeleteI believe with this behavior and habit of giving away too much information is life risking. Nowadays, people are easily kidnapped or tricked into being abducted. The way people share what they did, what they will do, and where they will be is a big danger zone for the social blogger. This will give the kidnapper an easier process to find that person. So, people should be more cautious when it comes to posting private information because they are unaware with dangerous consequences.
Can you explain more about what you mean in the first paragraph?
DeleteSydney White
ReplyDeleteBlog 10 ; value of privacy
11/26/13
In today’s world, nothing is private, absolutely nothing. Not even phone calls, journals, pictures, emails or anything else you would imagine being private. Google defines privacy to be the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Privacy is something that not a lot of people have anymore because they just don’t care. For example. On twitter, instagram, or any other social networking website people don’t care who sees their private pictures or text messages or anything else. For example, someone can tweet that they are going to Chicago for the weekend, and not care who sees it. Having privacy involves not letting random people know your plans, which is why I think people should keep their business and their plans and their plans to themselves. In our generation if you have privacy you are a lucky person. In public places you should not put your business and personal life out there by talking on the phone about a personal problem, and or just telling your friend you’re with about something that is personal. Trust me it can wait until you get home, or at least into your car. Privacy is something everyone can have, but most people choose not to because they want to put themselves out there. Sometimes it’s not a bad thing to express yourself, but other times you should keep some things on the down low. For instance, there are multiple people that I know who put things that should be private, out for the whole world to know. “Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing” –Billy Graham
Remember to read other posts before posting yours - the examples you used were explained by other people above.
DeletePrivacy was one of the things we used to value the most, but now no one seems to care about it. Now a days people spend to little value on privacy. It can be dangerous if we don't be careful what we say or what we put online. If I had a twitter and every two seconds I tweeted where I was at and what I was doing, anyone with access to my account can find my exact location and can do harm against me. I know thats scary, but it happens almost every day. Some teen out there is putting there life at risk and is posting some stupid picture or comment thats not really necessary.
ReplyDeleteAlso whats wrong with keeping things to ourselves. Who cares if I eat blueberry pancakes for breakfast or who cares if I'm going to the bowling alley later it doesn't matter and no one else should care. Everyone should keep there own personal business to themselves to a certain extent. If your own personal business is dangerous to someone else or can harm someone else then you should tell someone. Privacy is a valuable thing were losing as each day goes on, but we need change that.
Your examples were already used.
DeleteAll humans have share the common value of privacy of what should be shown and what should be held behind closed doors. However, recently with all the new technology and endless list of social media websites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Tumblr, Ask, and Pinterest are people losing the value in privacy? Through social media sites millions of people from around the globe share where they have been, where they are going, and even something as simple as what they are about to eat is all held within a click of one button. Once posted, these posts are made view able to the hundreds and even millions of people online. Furthermore, people have lost sense in the common value of privacy and there have been spiraling negative consequences. Many people have lost their lives, reputations, and have faced criminal charges that will stay with them their whole lives, all due to that one post that was “accidentally” posted to share with the world. A seventeen year old boy from Wisconsin faced the realities of over sharing and was arrested and charged with possessing child pornography after posting nudes of a previous girlfriend on a social media site. In another case a woman lost her job as a teacher because of a post of a rant she posted on her Facebook about her ‘bad day at school’. Lastly, the value of privacy has lessened due to trends, modern technologies and social media. People could ruin the reputations and potentially destroy their careers and careers of others since the social media does not have any filter and posts almost anything that is submitted. So yes we do place little value on privacy.
ReplyDeleteGood examples from the news.
DeleteI do believe that we place too little value on privacy. Privacy is in fact a very important thing. Once you have lost your privacy there is no way to get it back. If someone steals your possessions, at least you can replace those things, but after someone has taken some information about you, and spread it through the internet, you cannot get it back. This information can be brought up the next day, or years from now. Chances are, if someone is bringing it up years in the future, it is most likely to hurt you.
ReplyDeleteWebsites use a thing called cookies. Cookies take information that you put on your computer, and uses it for various purposes. One of these purposes is to create ads. when you see ads for things you like on Facebook or YouTube, it is not because the computer just magically knows what you like, it is because your computer is learning things about you. This is a scary thought, a computer taking things you thought were private and displaying them anywhere it wants. Cookies are taking away peoples privacy and most people do not even know they exist and even though you can turn them off, many websites require cookies to be turned on.
Great second paragraph. A bit more in the first would have helped.
DeleteI don’t know much about privacy before technology, I had never really thought about it. I had a journal once but never really wrote much in it but I never thought about my privacy being violated. Before texting and emailing people would have to write out letters and go to the post office to mail it. Now there are people who are working in the post office are losing their jobs do to emails and texting and now privacy is not something people are really concerned about.
ReplyDeletePeople like to post things on the internet for nearly everyone to see and to practically tell everyone things that are going on in their lives. I think that it is more rude than anything to see people in public places having conversations that not everyone needs to hear.Also I think that many things in our lives should be private and not so public. At the end my opinion is that people need to be very careful with their choices for privacy matters.
Remember to have at least 5-8 sentences in each paragraph to thoroughly explain your examples.
DeleteFor me personally privacy really isn't a big issue for me ,especially when dealing technology. For the reason being that now-a-days everyone is watching videos out in the open, while others are taking "selfies" with buildings and their food. Today people aren't really aren't as private as they used to be now that technology has advanced tremendously these past decades. We have gone from sending Morse code messages, to mailing letters to each other, to sending texts and face timing.
ReplyDeletePeople rely on technology to much. Instead of being in an actually conversation with them, they'll just tweet it or make a selfie out of it. Everything is public. Especially with those that use vine, take their vines while at a restraint or waiting in a long line at a store during black fridayThe pictures you take go on instagram, where you document every little thing that's happening in your little world.
Casey Olsommer
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Privacy is a very important thing. It’s things you keep to yourself and things you can have to yourself without anyone knowing. No one needs to know everything about you, some things should just be kept to yourself. Now a day’s people just put all of their personal information out into the world. People write blogs about their lives and update every little thing they’re doing on twitter and share photos of them on instagram. No one is private anymore, all their information is on the internet, and anyone could access it.
I don’t think people even care that all their information is available to anyone. People have nothing private anymore. Some things in life should be private, no wants to know everything about someone, especially personal things. They shouldn’t be put all over the internet and shared with others. Anyone online can see your personal information even if you were only telling something to one person.
Adam Diaz
ReplyDeletePrivacy is so abused now. The government spies in on people all the time so that shows that they don't care about our privacy. Although this is to protect our country from terrorists it still violates our privacy. I feel everyone should be able to have their privacy except for terrorists, people expected of terrorism and people who have got in serious trouble with the law. Spying on people is actually against our own constitution, I feel that them doing this is very corrupt and should be stopped.
Even Batman don't care about the peoples privacy. In the movie "The Dark Knight" batman hacks everyone's cell phone and listens in. He has a huge screen with sonar and he can see around where the people cell phones are and listen in to their conversation. Of course this is all to find the joker it is still abusing the peoples privacy. I'm not sure if Gotham is in the U.S or not but if it is Batman is violating our constitution, shame on you Batman.