People Shouldn’t Worry About Their Privacy because They are too Boring for Anyone to Care.
I ran across a blog post today about how people shouldn’t worry about their privacy because they are too boring for anyone to care.
“Most of us live private lives by virtue of being uninteresting. In fact, we are doomed to a life of privacy because of the multitude of Facebook and Twitter statuses. Really, what in the mountain of data is worth more than five seconds of our attention?”atomicpoet.wordpress.com, atomicpoet, Nov 2009
It is an interesting point. Maybe it really doesn’t matter if we are being watched twenty-four hours a day and maybe it doesn’t matter that people know all the little things we tweet and post.
On the other hand, I don’t think that the author is taking into account that it’s about the individual people who may want to harm you in some way. I for one don’t care if the feds know where I live, what I post, and what I’m doing. I’ve always accepted that as a “given,” but some guy I pissed off in a gaming forum knowing where I live or what my closest friends look like, that is a problem.
What do you think? Does our privacy matter anymore?
