Comments on: privacy matters http://blog.ginsudo.com/2009/12/01/privacy-matters/ the way of ginsu Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:44:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: shqyz http://blog.ginsudo.com/2009/12/01/privacy-matters/#comment-160 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:59:01 +0000 http://blog.ginsudo.com/?p=540#comment-160 hai ginsudo…, i’m really interest in this topic. Actually i’m a degree student, working on my final year project and i also came up with this topic especially in social networking sites. I wonder if i can have your email so that i can address you some questions to help me doing my project. If you don’t mind. thanks a lot!!

]]> By: ginsu http://blog.ginsudo.com/2009/12/01/privacy-matters/#comment-158 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:37:01 +0000 http://blog.ginsudo.com/?p=540#comment-158 Yeah, no question that people’s expectation of privacy evolve through generations. But I think the notion that “the younger generation lives in the open” (as in http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/ ) is easy to misinterpret at this point. Does it mean that the new generation has a permanent attitude change, or just a particular form of youthful expression?

I’m not so sure that the kids who live in the open now will continue to do so as they age. It’s possible that young people simply have less to hide – or rather, less reasons to hide. If we had FB when I was younger, I’m sure I would have had lots of embarrassing things on it. And I’m also sure I would have cleaned a lot of that up, if possible, as I got older.

]]> By: Brian http://blog.ginsudo.com/2009/12/01/privacy-matters/#comment-157 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:11:52 +0000 http://blog.ginsudo.com/?p=540#comment-157 As an anecdotal observation – my late-teen and 20-something friends have far fewer concerns about privacy than my older friends. They’ve grown up with the expectation that most things will find their way to Google, and they don’t seem overly concerned about it.

With the services people differentiate as public versus private, try seeing them as spaces for keeping up with old friends versus meeting new friends. Some of the concerns about privacy may remain, but things like Twitter’s imposed brevity add value that’s missed from the privacy perspective.

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