Well, there goes my privacy.

I was thinking one day how nothing in this world is private anymore. Someone either has facebook, myspace, a tweeter account, etc. All the information needed to make your life public is already on the internet. Have you ever tried to google yourself? I did, and the first thing that came up was my facebook account that had my picture, my name, and the city I was in. With just that information people know something about me and just like that my life has become open to the public. Whether I accept the people that I don't know as friends, it does not change that they already have information about me. Privacy's definition seems to be changing as the world evolves to be more involved in the digital era. When I was 9 years old  my parents fianlly let me create an email account so I could communicate with my friends and family members. From that point in time, my life has changed and it will never go back to how it was. Before that, the only people that really knew details about me were the people I either saw at school or family friends.

If I went to summer camp and met someone (when I was younger) the only pieces of information we would exchange would be our name and maybe a house phone number to call. There was no facebook, no myspace, not even a cellphone that I could store numbers in. Our identity was kept private unless you talked about your life to them. I got to say I miss the times were no social networks existed. There was no procrastination, no stalking, no Internet harm. Lucky for us the Digital Era has helped us in many things, but has destroyed privacy and identity.
Privacy now-a-days means that the stranger can not see your full profile on your social network accounts. Now is that safe? Since some people add as their friends those strangers that they met once for ten seconds. “Hey, he looks familiar, accept as friend!”

I still have to say that your life is not private if you have an account with any social network. Some information has got to go on those pages, and it is to be seen by the public. As the years go by the real privacy keeps dissappearing and a new kind of privacy is progressing. I do have a facebook account and I try to make it as private as I can but my life is not fully private anymore. Unless we get rid of all the social networks we will not be safe from the evil’s of the Internet. Obviously, that is not going to happen in this life time. We are part of the digital world now and we have to work around it.