| Finally someone who gets it! I've been saying this for ever. Our society is moving to one with fewer and fewer secrets. When Facebook pushes privacy concerns, it's actually just reflecting our new reality and trying to stay relevant. The "issue" that we will be coming up against is that people need time to adjust and to be honest, people aren't used to knowing everything about each other. To give an absurd example for the purposes of illustration: If your boss finds out that you like to cross dress on the weekend it may reflect poorly on you . In reality this is simply b/c he knows something unusual about you and your coworkers continue to look "normal" in his eyes. If he knows that you crossdress, Jeff likes to be tied up, and Bob's wife is a tranny then it no longer becomes a big deal. The same goes for more sensitive things, like the amount of women that have abortions, or misscarriages, or people that have mental disabilities or are on antidepressants, or do hard drugs in their spare time. We shield ourselves from certain things to the point where when we get exposed to them we don't react appropriately b/c we have no reference point. The reason Obama wouldn't be okay with a mic is mostly because no president before him has had a mic. So if he cusses out other world leaders on the daily, he'll look like a grade A asshole - regardless of whether or not other presidents have done it. |