Privacy
Tuesday, 21 December 2010 @ 21:30
Here's an important thing. Privacy. It's all about who you are, how you feel, what you are thinking and so on.
Privacy is meant to be private. Somehow, this idea has evolved into something entirely different now. With various sights such as online journals and social networking sites, personal information becomes very exposed. Personally I feel that the line between privacy and public has become more vague. There IS a limit as to how much one should expose him or herself in cyberspace.
Privacy is something sacred, and when it is spread out for the whole world to see, it becomes in a way a threat to the person whom that privacy belongs to. Sometimes, these valuable pieces of information fall into the wrong hands, and suddenly, it's like your whole world turns upside down. You may not mean for it to be read by everyone, but well, you don't know who gets hold of your information, unless of course you have some sort of super modern computer program that enables you to track down those you have viewed your profile in any website. But I doubt that many people have this. The information you put out may only be intended for a certain exclusive audience of yours, but sometimes, well, you get a full uninvited house.
There have been many cases of bad things happening on the internet, and some of these are due to the lack of control over one's privacy. And the sad thing is, (if this actually happened to you), you started the problem.
Here's my view on privacy. Privacy is holy. It's yours. You can choose to keep it to yourself, share it among those who are closest to you, or even expose it to anyone. All I'm saying is that we should all be careful about handling our information because once it goes into cyberspace, it stays there.
Handle it wisely.
