With Facebook and twitter updating constantly throughout the day, it makes me wonder if we are beginning to lose our privacy in the Web 2.0 world. We have become a society that constantly needs to be in contact with someone and needs to say something about anything. We have become more open and honest online about our lives than ever before.
It use to be that the internet was a scary place, where we didn’t want strangers to know who we are, where we were or what we did. That has changed with social media; small town individuals are becoming celebrities with a video camera and computer. That’s the story of YouTube and Justin Bieber.
Strangers around the globe watched his YouTube videos religiously, while he lead a normal life in Stratford, Ontario. He's made millions of dollars, had teen girls devote their lives to him, all because of social media. But where does that leave us who will never be on
I purpose that we do have fans, just not the ones that will say they're following you. These fans are secretly “creeping” our moves and never telling us about their activities. Social Media has allowed the public eye to be turned on us; only our news feed and tweets have become the US weekly.
Our communities have made us into the celebrities.
Knowing people are watching our actions on social media sites, does this influence how much information you share?
Interesting blog as we all are part of these social sites. I get very annoyed when people complain about others knowing too much info about their lives or acting like they dont want ppl to know things about them. DONT post things if you dont want ppl to know or talk about it. I find ppl forget they can change their privacy settings so that things are limited to friends only. The only thing that is out of our hands is when pictures are posted by others and we are in them....and this has to be in the backs of our heads whenever we do something as phones today make it possible to record anything and everything.
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