Why do people give up these freedoms so willingly? I don't think it's accurate to word it that way. Allowing some information about oneself to become public is

Why do people give up these freedoms so willingly? I don't think it's accurate to word it that way. Allowing some information about oneself to become public is more an issue of personal privacy than about freedom. Now, if the government decides to use that now public information to detain or otherwise strip the freedom from that individual, that's another far more frightful issue. I think that most people tend to post updates on Facebook/Twitter because they don't consider it private. Everyone I know knows that I'm married and to whom, so I don't worry about posting that on Facebook. People are often worried about online privacy, but I would bet that most people are pretty open with friends and family in in-person situations. Now if a site like Facebook is taking data that I intend to keep private and turning that into public data, that's also a different, and far more important, issue.