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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
(Unverified)Jan 11th 2010 12:15PM
When you write an article, you want people to read it. You get that with grabby headlines. I don't see the problem.
Yes, RWW stretched 'people aren't as worried about posting personal info on the net as they used to be' into 'the age of privacy is over'. But no one would read an article entitled: Facebook's Zuckerberg Says People Aren't As Worried About Posting Personal Info on the Net as They Used to be'. RWW included Zuckerberg's actual words in the article, lest people be misled by the headline.
Plus, it doesn't take much to conclude the second from the first: if norms about posting personal info really have fundamentally shifted, maybe the 'age of privacy' IS over, in the sense that we no longer strongly value privacy. Its not that we can't choose settings that guard our privacy, its that we choose not to.
Whether this trend is as strong or as permanent as would be necessary to kill an age remains an open question. For my part, I'm part of the relevant generation but am very wary of sharing my life over the net. I have twitter and facebook accounts, but I never use them; I have them just to have them.
(Unverified)Jan 11th 2010 1:24PM
I think there's always been people that don't value privacy as much as the next person.
It could also be argued that privacy is overrated -- is there really any harm, for 99.999% of people, to give out private info?
But I think that's beyond the scope of this conversation, or this site :)
(Unverified)Jan 11th 2010 2:19PM
@The_Doc: "But no one would read an article entitled: Facebook's Zuckerberg Says People Aren't As Worried About Posting Personal Info on the Net as They Used to be'."
You are entirely correct here. However, that's not an excuse to put words into somebody's mouth and mislead readers. If the author of that blog post has problems getting readers WITHOUT deceptive headlines, maybe he shouldn't be a blogger.