Internet privacy: identity.com

Facebook is the biggest social network site in the world. When it first started, the posts and photos were for friend’s eyes only, but that changed recently. Now everything is open for everyone to see. One could change his settings back again, but that is a fiddly procedure.

In normal life people think about how to present themselves, whereas on Facebook everything like the way you dress in weekends up to the number of beers you drink are open for everyone to see.

Under pressure from it’s costumers, Facebook set the setting back again. However, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook thinks privacy is over. He even believes that having more identities shows lack of integrity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/31/facebook-privacy-policy-editorial

My reaction:

People should think of the way they present themselves. In normal life people would dress and act differently in various occasions. To a job interview one would not wear the same clothes as on an evening out. That is not a sign of a lack of integrity, that is a sign of knowing how to play the different roles you have in life. As a daughter you can show your doubts, as a friend you can share your deepest thoughts, and as a teacher you can show your authority. It is completely normal and of all times to show various parts of yourself to different people and in different roles.