Our Loss of Privacy

With all the new technology in the world, it is really hard to keep things private in modern day America and in the end, creating fake people. Between Facebook, and Myspace, text messages and instant messaging, any piece of information could be spread across the world in a matter of minutes-- or less. Almost all of the social networking websites require personal information about the users, such as e-mails, full names, ages, birth dates, place of birth, present residing place, etc. I know personally on Facebook, the website made a required link to where I said I lived currently. That irked me a little, because what if I liked keeping that information to myself? I couldn't. Which brings us then to the fact that people will lie all over their pages. They lie about their names, ages, where they live, and in the end it's chosing between being broadcasted to everyone, or make a fake self. Peggy Noonan says, "An odd thing is that when privacy is done away with, people don't become more authentic, they become less so. What replaces what used not to be said is something that must be said and is usually a lie." Privacy has been a major issue in this country for a long time, and it seems like now have a way to keep it-- lying. But how much better is that?
http://www.newser.com/story/89539/what-weve-lost-along-with-privacy.html