Personal Information - Turn around is fair play

Privacy Battle Gets Personal for Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg

This has to be one of the more uncomfortable positions to find yourself in. You make billions (yes that is with a B) on getting people to expose their most personal thoughts and feelings to their friends, families and even complete strangers and then some other website (valleywag.com) hires someone to follow you around 24/7 documenting every aspect of your personal life that they can find.

The discussion of personal privacy is a hot one. Where does your right to have a personal life end and the right for the public to know begin. There is an old saying that goes something like your freedom ends when your fist hits my face. But with the digital arena is not a digital fist just as devastating as a physical one?

When you walk around your house you expect to have a degree of personal privacy. But the minute you walk out the door your "expectations of privacy" are greatly diminished. But how far should they be diminished. If someone was following you into the grocery store taking pictures of each item that you buy would that not be pushing the limits of personal privacy? What about the type of soap you buy, or even more critical the prescriptions that you get at the pharmacy. I don't think that I would want someone documenting all of those things on some blog that never really disappears.

At some point we are going to have some kind of backlash against the type of information that can be posted. It will be interesting to see how all of this shakes out.