I just ran across this new online social community. This absolutely blow my mind. I remember pen pals as a kid and how special it was to get that letter from some kid your age in North Dakota. I am quite convinced that my 7 month old daughter, Taylor, would think that writing a letter to some kid you are paired up with across the country – in anticipation of receiving one a month later – is akin to hopping in your wagon to “drive to work” in the morning.
In my exuberance with technology, I am also forced to deal with the grim, alternative problems, e.g., John Green’s suspension for his e-mails about Bush. Most of us have probably (call me crazy) e-mailed someone and said something that they, perhaps, would not want the whole world to read. And, now, John Green’s views are quickly dispensed around the world. Technology has indeed broken down barriers and created many positives. On the other hand, it has completely eroded privacy – or even the expectation of privacy of anyone in a public position . . . or even a private person who chooses by his own stupidity to become public.
We must remember that a right to privacy did not exist until Justice Blackmun created the right in 1973.
I don’t understand why anyone in a public position would have any sort of an expectation of privacy????? I don’t feel sorry for John Greene and I certainly don’t blame technology.