Privacy

Privacy has undergone almost a complete change since what it was like before the advent of social media. Presently whenever you're going to put anything up on the internet, such as a photo, you always have to remind yourself that it's practically like giving up your right to keep it private. Even with all of the privacy settings in the world on Facebook someone can easily just download the image to their computer and post it up anywhere without your knowledge about it at all. While some will call this unethical there currently aren't any laws or legitimate ways of preventing actions such as these.

However privacy hasn't changed in how accessible all of our information is. It's also changed in the mentality of the new generation who has grown up with social media and the internet. Now events in their life that should better be kept to themselves and not shared with others are posted online and laid bare for the world to see without much prior thinking about it. In fact, most people want their friends or others on the internet to know what they're doing. It's as though privacy is really just a concept they should use when they're being mistreated and not an over arching concern to how to lead their life in general. This has caused privacy to go from a "Black and white" type of concept into a grey line.

If people willingly share such private facts about their life, does privacy even exist at all? If everyone saw them at the party, is it a breach of privacy to post a picture of them totally drunk for everyone to see if they didn't do it themselves? Privacy is a hot button issue now. Especially with groups like the NSA involved and taking all of our information for their own personal uses.