Do you think that privacy is slowly dying out? That one day, nothing will be private. In the future, everything you say and do will have the capacity to be seen by anyobe across the world. In the future, our kids wont even know what it means to have privacy. Since they are proabaly using their real names to represent themselves on the internet, as opposed to screen names. Im sure in the future, most people wont have any problem whatsoever giving out entire lives out in the open for anyone to see, in the future, privacy and anomonimty will be quaint little pieces of a bygone era, where the government couldnt intercept every form of communication that passed by, where video cameras wernt perched on stores, and street lamps and passerby with cell phones, where people didn't blindly give away the right to be private and alone, and when being private about your life didnt mean u were anti social. In twenty years, im sure whatever we consider privacy now would be tottally gone. And nobody will even notice in forty years.
I think the only thing private we will have in the future are our thoughts, no one will ever be able to infiltrate every little neurotransmission scientifically into understandable data. Or thoughts and desires will forever be ours, while our emotions and feelings teeter on the edge of being personal. We may forever sacrifice our physical privacy to cameras, rfid tags, etc. I hope to someday live in a small cabin like home on a decent amount of land. I'm more so concerned about any pristine land existing that i could make a livelihood off of, with all the frakking, deforestation, blah blah. Any pristine piece of nontoxic land in 25 30 years will be worth millions of dollars.
So do you think you have any privacy right now? If you ever share anything with anyone, whether willingly or unwillingly, would you call that privacy? We're humans; we gossip. And people who try and keep to themselves are intriguing specimen to be discussed. There never was privacy, only an illusion thereof.
There most certainly has always been and is currently such a thing as privacy...Are you sitting in a room typing on your computer alone, and unseen? If you are with others, are your actions not hidden from your neighbors, and the rest of your city? This is privacy. The fact that you are not seen, not judged, and unnoticed by anyone is privacy. You are free to do what you want, without reprimand or judgement from others. He is addressing the fact that our private life is becoming more public, and our society seemingly is progressing towards a very open, "no-secrets" type place. And to the op, im sure privacy will always be around for our life times, and imo well into the future unless we are ruled by a militarian governemnt or a dictatorship or something..
Don't spit some government conspiracy stoner shit about the illusion of privacy if you cannot back it up at all. There certainly is enormous amounts of privacy available to every average american at the moment. I would say 75 percent of my actions are private, as no observers are looking. Anything I do in my own home is private, on my own land is private, maybe I have some neighbors or passerbys looking occassionally. Anyways, I think if you have a true friend confinding things in them is private, it won't be posted on facebook or something. We are choosing to make our actions far less private with things like social networking. The only real details I have on my facebook are my interests and statuses, I can't believe people put phone numbers and addresses on there, tell you every location they have arrived at, send you pictures of their meals, etc. its rediculous and if you don't want a private life you can create a public one. However, the default life, one without internet assumes privacy
^^ So you said 75% of your life is spent sitting alone at home? As long as you are doing something with someone they will know what you were doing, and at a later time if they told someone what they did, they would most likely say they did it with you. I wasn't literally talking about your private activities. How the fuck are you gonna bed a girl without anyone knowing? People aren't retards. They can draw valid conclusions based on very little evidence.
Not necessarily 75percent of my life is sitting at home. I more so meant that I feel like 75percent of my actions are private. Two definitions of private I found are. pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal: for your private satisfaction. confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential: a private meeting. Private doesn't mean what porn fetish you jerked off to and nobody knows about. Its more along the lines of non-publicly disclosed information. Yes If i went to the movies with a girl, and she told her friends it would still imo be somewhat private. It would have slightly been out of the hands of the immediately concerned but still remaining pretty close. If that is the case that any interaction with any human would be 100percent public information and there was never any privacy, which doesn't seem right.
Privacy is gone with drones, social media, government control, etc. Only place you will have privacy is in your own cranium. Big brother is watching you!
So, reggaemylitis, by your definition of privacy, everything is private, becausepeople know about your actions? I was talking about people inquiring as to your doings. Would your life be private if people knew about what you did? Hell no. Everyone knows your business. They know when you go to work. What you do in your free time. Where you do your shopping. Nothing you do remains a secret. I feel I need to clarify, by everyone, I do not literally mean the entire world, but rather people in your neighbourhood, your family, friends, acquientainces, colleagues. Although you might not know them intimately, they can get any information on you if they so wish. There never was privacy; accept it.
[quote name='"tHe LoNLy StOnR"']So, reggaemylitis, by your definition of privacy, everything is private, becausepeople know about your actions? I was talking about people inquiring as to your doings. Would your life be private if people knew about what you did? Hell no. Everyone knows your business. They know when you go to work. What you do in your free time. Where you do your shopping. Nothing you do remains a secret. I feel I need to clarify, by everyone, I do not literally mean the entire world, but rather people in your neighbourhood, your family, friends, acquientainces, colleagues. Although you might not know them intimately, they can get any information on you if they so wish. There never was privacy; accept it.[/quote] People you know or met may be able get some info about you. But that does not mean they can just get any information they wish on you. For example I was just in the woods doing something alone a few hours ago. Nobody but me knows why I was there or what I was doing there or if I was ever there at all. Only me myself and I knows exactly what I was doing in the woods and why I was doing it. If there were no privacy that would mean a random stranger like you could find out what I was doing there and why even if you wernt there.
So i guess in the future, it will be big brother watching us watch each other watch big brother. Or will it be us watching big brother watching each other watch us? Or will it be each other watching us watching big brother watch us? I think they're all right, we dont just have to worry about corporations and governments intrusing on our privacy with their insidious cookies, data interception and sold information. But also have to keep an eye out on strangers on a bus, friends at school, and even our loved ones at home. It seems that in the future people will become transparent, but at what cost?
Ofcourse they can't, because you neer told anyone why you did that. I didn't say eeryone telepathically knows what your doing or that everyone knows what your thinking, all I said was that people might inquire into your activities and why you do things. You just misunderstood me. And about no one knowing why you went into the woods, as I said they can draw valid conclusions about your doings without even really knowing what you do. For instance, you went alone into the woods, I can surmise that you are using drugs that makes you introspective eg. a psychedelic - not a great conclusion considering that this is a MJ site, but it is still valid. Another reason you might have went into the woods on your own is that you felt bored and lonely. I can conclude that you are a angsty teen and most likely have daddy issues. You have trouble with authority and most likely don't have a job. And the reason you went into the woods is that you are in a difficult time of your life, probably teen years, and you're very stressed, maybe even depressed. You have an anxious personality and find it more difficult than others find it to make friends. Just throwing this out there, but you might have self esteem issues. Can you see what I'm talking about? I'm not talking about people physically knowing what your doing, but they can guess what your up to. With more information I could draw conclusions that are more valid. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
[quote name='"tHe LoNLy StOnR"'] Ofcourse they can't, because you neer told anyone why you did that. I didn't say eeryone telepathically knows what your doing or that everyone knows what your thinking, all I said was that people might inquire into your activities and why you do things. You just misunderstood me. And about no one knowing why you went into the woods, as I said they can draw valid conclusions about your doings without even really knowing what you do. For instance, you went alone into the woods, I can surmise that you are using drugs that makes you introspective eg. a psychedelic - not a great conclusion considering that this is a MJ site, but it is still valid. Another reason you might have went into the woods on your own is that you felt bored and lonely. I can conclude that you are a angsty teen and most likely have daddy issues. You have trouble with authority and most likely don't have a job. And the reason you went into the woods is that you are in a difficult time of your life, probably teen years, and you're very stressed, maybe even depressed. You have an anxious personality and find it more difficult than others find it to make friends. Just throwing this out there, but you might have self esteem issues. Can you see what I'm talking about? I'm not talking about people physically knowing what your doing, but they can guess what your up to. With more information I could draw conclusions that are more valid. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?[/quote] Lol guessing and knowing are two diffrent things. You may be able to guess what someone is up to. but that does not mean the guess will be the truth. Which means people can guess all they want about someone but never truly know for sure making it private. Also your guess about me is wrong but you would never truly know for sure if it was or not.
Lol, i just realized that there is a thread almost exactly the same. Ha ha, god, i bet this kind of thing happens all the time, huh?