Public Private Lives

[sable_drakon]

With the rise of Myspace and Twitter, I keep wondering if anyone still knows what privacy or even means these days. Each is unique and special, but both are equally stupid. Steven Rambam hosts a talk at a few venues called 'Privacy is dead, get over it.'. But as bad as that sounds, services like these make all too true. There is so much pointless

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[rikudrak]

Yeh it does have uses, although I still don't bother wit hit at all.

As for kidnapping, rape, and murder: Very honestly, if someone was going to do that, they would anyway regardless of if Twitter existed or not. Internet social networking doesn't increase those crimes anymore than more revealing clothing "asks for" rape.

So while I agree it's stupid to constantly publish your offline life online, it's a bit drastic to connect those crimes to it in that manner. After all, it's not like everyone has the potential to be a kidnapper, rapist, or murderer. It takes people who do not have the same social morals and principles as the rest of us.

[sable_drakon]

All this does it make it easier. Why spend hours watching a person in real life and pit in the time to learn their habits, when an rss feed of their lives makes it all the easier? Twitted also makes spur of the moment crimes all that much easier, all because you can camp out on the main feed and look for people. Now if Twitter was designed in a manner that only friends were able to even see your feed, I wouldn't have as much of an issue. I'd still call the users vain cunts, but at least they have control over who is looking at their broadcast lives. But with the current design of the platform, it's just inherently unsafe for everyone that uses it.

[rikudrak]

It... Doesn't?
... Well shit.

In that case it would be much better to keep it closed to private use.