Peep Culture

I posted about the new Privacy initiative of ALA and wrote about Hal Niedzviecki’s presentation. I thought you would like to know what he said. Below are some points that I jotted down during his speech.

• People are alone—we put our selves out there so we are not alone
• We want people to know we exist
• Corporations and government look at privacy as a commodity
• We are angry when people make money on our information
• We need a new conversation about privacy
• People seemed to have accepted monitoring of their actions by cameras
• We are morally complicit when we watch a video of another persons fall or accident
• There is value of not knowing.

One story he told was about when he threw a party for all his friends on Facebook. He invited them to come to a bar at a certain time to meet each other. Only one person came. The Facebook “friends” did not come because they felt that they already knew him. Hal stated this in response “What you think you know, you don’t really know”

What do you think about the peep culture?