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> I am pretty sure that we did not know that we humans much prefer personal attention to personal privacy. Until we invented the technology of social media, we thought we naturally favored privacy over attention, but we were also wrong about that.

I don't know that the classical assumption was that people preferred privacy as a whole. People who lived as hermits have generally been seen as eccentric and abnormal, though sometimes admirable.

But with the internet pushing the possibility of living a private life to its extremes, the unsuitability of it for most people becomes more obvious.

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As I understand it, cultures that were poor enough that animals and people all lived together (and in cold climates, shared heat) in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouse structures had almost no privacy (hence the popularity of "rolls in the hay" in english or "going for a walk" in russian?) and the people who build later structures seem to have nearly universally preferred individual rooms, with open-dormitory-style arrangements reserved for those who had little choice: military, hospitals, etc.