The near-complete about-face in how people consider the Internet that is so noticeable amazes people.
The shift has been so forceful, it seems to have rewritten the definitions of "public" and "private."
It used to be that 'private' was intimate and invisible. But what we have here, on Facebook in particular, is intimate and visible. It's a public/private mixture that we've never had, and it's turned all sorts of things upside down.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the number of adults who belong to online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn has more than quadrupled in the past four years. About 60 percent of them, the organization adds, take steps to protect the privacy of their profile information.
What are your thoughts on this change and its effects on our perception of privacy?
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