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Do you really think that between "one person sees my penis" vs. "my penis is on the internet" you wouldn't mind which one?
by corin_ 14y ago
Do you really think that between "one person sees my penis" vs. "my penis is on the internet" you wouldn't mind which one?
- randallsquared 14y agoI mind them both a fair amount, but not so much as double for the internet version. It would have bothered me enormously more fifteen years ago, but it's been obvious since at least 1999 when Brin articulated it in _The Transparent Society_ that this was coming. Privacy is going away in the long run, disappearing into "public" and "secret", and things you don't want to be public will have to be secret. Hence my statement about individual locker room stalls. Since I found myself agreeing that this was going to happen, I decided that I would have to learn to accept that eventually everything about me would be public unless I went to extraordinary lengths to keep it secret. I'm 80% or 90% of the way there. :) So, yes, there's still a difference in how I react emotionally to those scenarios, but for people born in 2020, I don't think there will be.