A couple of days ago I was at the beach and my best friend was talking about some weird shit that happened to a friend of hers. The story was so weird it gave me material to write a post, since this has been on my mind for a long time and I haven't had the right words to write about it.
The post would be summed up in a very quick sentence: this world is too small. But since this is a post, we're going with the largest picture. Well, seems that one friend of a friend posted some photographs at Facebook of a random night at a local place where all people hang out on Fridays. Not a big deal, just pictures of a group drinking, smiling, having fun. Yeah, just another day at the bar and someone decided to post them to share with the world.
Well as you all might know, these pictures are mostly available to all the people if you don't manage your privacy profile or if you don't care that the world will see them. A friend of a friend might see them, and a friend of another friend might be tagged, on and on it goes. Well, the thing was, in one of the photographs, deep in the background, were too people kissing. Let's fast forward a bit... a friend recognizes one of the two people... and he was kind of not kissing the person that he should. Fast forward again... it was all over for the dude.
Was the guy not caring if he got caught? That is not the point. His private life and his choices are only his and we're not one to judge. Every relationship has two sides, we will not ever know what happened to cause that moment. The post is not about that man and what happened next when he got kind of caught. It's Privacy.
Privacy, as a whole, is a thing of the past. Now every single detail of anybody's life, if it's not protected by privacy settings can change your life in a moment. Now you would have to move to Uganda, to a tribe down somewhere with no internet or phone capabilities just enough to not have every single person know what you are doing that day. It's all over, we have to accept it.
Facebook, MySpace and other social networking tools have ended what seemed to be a private life for many people. Isn't that sad? We all arm ourselves with clicking at any privacy setting an internet web page has, but still our lives trickle outside the coloring lines from time to time. Are we entitled to any privacy? I say yes. Are we anybody to judge people from a photograph or a statement somewhere? No, we're not. We have to live and let live. Will that man be happy after all this hoopla has ended? Do we care? Nope. Is it our business to determine if he did the right thing or not, just because of a single photograph? Nope. A photograph doesn't determine anything. But he sure lost some kind of privacy that he deserved to have. And that, my friends, is some scary shit.
What if you are walking with your sister, give her a hug and some douchebag decides to "out" you, not knowing who she is? What if you are having lunch with a very attractive client and your sister in law doesn't know and decides to give gossip a try? People need to live their own lives and let people do the same. What if the angle of the photograph in question was misleading? Yeah, you get the picture. We will never know.
People I beg of you. Be careful. Close your accounts to the people you know. Give that Privacy Setting a try and look for any nook and cranny to protect yourself, your loved ones and your friends from situations like these. You never know what intentions some crazy people have out there.
Let's Protect Privacy once again. For everybody.
1 comments:
The guy took his chances kissing somebody he shouldn't have been. Someone could just as easily have walked into the bar to see him. I can't muster up any sympathy for a sneaky liar, no matter what the other side of the story may be.
But as for privacy, I must agree with you. Between social media and Google Street View we're on display 24/7. And everyone's watching.
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