FUTURE+OF+PRIVACY

The way I see things going right now, I thing that there is a possibility that privacy may not even exist in the future. Facebook is a great example of making us, the people, not believe in privacy anymore. There's a thin line between what should be private and what shouldn't be. However, one can not necessarily blame the media or anyone else for this but ourselves. We voluntarily choose to post our lives online, fully knowing that they can be fully exposed by whoever. I've heard rumors about people that check facebooks before employing a person. And I don't blame them, although it might be unethical, it is no surprise that Facebook is the perfect way to "stalk" or search people and see how their personalities are, who their friends are, and what their interests are.

Call me paranoid, but I believe that the governments have a huge role to play with this new "no privacy" world. It is not one specific government I'm talking about, possibly the whole world, but they use scare tactics to help us become more "secure" which at the same time exposes our privacy. For example, the fact that the US tracks people's phone calls, emails, text messages, pretty much anything that's technologically related, for the sake of "securing the state". There is clearly a fine line between security and privacy, but the question becomes; where is this line drawn?