Do we REALLY want privacy?

Do Social networking sites, the Internet, and text messaging enable intimacy? Technology anthropologist Stefana Broadbent debates that these e-business initiatives do enable intimacy. They allow for people to connect at any place and time. She completely disagrees that schools and workplace ban the use texting and Facebook"ing". She states that these should be accessible as they break down the divide of work and personal life that was created during the Industrial Revolution.

These E-business venture(Facebook and texting), have exploded as people have MANY contacts on their phones but only on average of 80% only contact 4 people, and Facebook the average friends is 120, but only contact about 6. The need for friends on your list has added to the rapid spread of social networking, and texting.These sites and services allow for people to more easily contact the core group, creating a closer tie to them.

To argue with Stefana Broadbent, the question of do we want this divide to be broken down is questioned. Yes, these sites and applications allow us to better contact our friends and family at any time of the day which is nice, but does everyone want this?
Researchers from the University of Guelph studied the details of Facebook creating jealousy and suspicion in sexual and romantic relationships, (http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2009/02/post_176.html). This study states that because Facebook allows for information to be accessible, and people to be contacted at any time creates issues. Although, regardless these aspects do not stump the growth of social networking. In this case we can become closer to the core group, but also to people we would not usually contact on a regular basis (this being good or bad).

Below is the Link for the ted video. The divide is up for debate, do we fight to keep it, or allow to be contacted at any place or time!

If the average amount of youth text messages is 80 a day, it is more believable that privacy is not what everyone really wants.
http://www.healthnews.com/family-health/child-health/average-teen-output-eighty-text-messages-day-3194.html

On the beach.. Missed your favourite television show.. Hey, no problem!

I am sure by now everyone has been faced with the HORRIBLE dilemma of being out while your favourite housewives, survivors, or gossiping teenagers have been on TV. And I am sure almost all of us have turned to watching our shows on the computer. Well, why not? Its free...or it may just cost a very cheap price!

Today we are lucky we can be out of the house and away from a television without the panic of falling behind in our “stories”. There is a video on TED.com from the tech columnist David Pogue, where he talks about the internet success of iTunes and the “downloading war” in a very nice song melody he created.



This confirmed to me the realization of how much we rely on the internet for our entertainment. The success of the ITunes store is a perfect example of this. It is the legit way to get music online instead of the not so legal choices of the Limewires and similar websites out there, AND as David put it, “I can type in a track and get album names back while still in my PJ’s and socks”. Convenience, is a crucial C to the Ecommerce and Ebusiness world . With the click of a couple keys we can save ourselves the headache of traveling to the video or music store. Not only is there profit in the sale of the music, television shows, and movies but also in the advertising related to it

DONT FORGET YOUTUBE, stay in touch with the; she said WHAT!, he wore WHAT!, or the he cut of who during her acceptance speech! Stories for FREE while YouTube makes large profits on the traffic that we provide them. And now we can tune in on our mobile devices, especially since Apple Iphone has made YouTube a mandatory application. We are willing to pay for the Convenience, and the online entertainment business is a prime example.