Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Dark Blue.

Information. It comes in various forms. To some it is thought to be a right, to others it is a privledge. To me it's a circumstantial term. Sure some information is common knowledge, provided to everyone and anyone who chooose to stumble accross it. Other information, however, is private, and therefore held close and shared with only those who deserve it. Random life detailes are where the line between commonly shared information, and privledged information becomes blurred. Techonology, only helps to smear this already hard to see line. When then, does someone gain the right to know life's random detailes? Better yet, when does someone lose this privledge? I have now deleted "A" from my facebook (consistant life informaiton feed) three times. According to reactions to such matters, the retraction of this constant flow of random personal information implies that, the friendship has also ceased to exist. Personally, I believe that the two are not mutually exclusive, and can survive without the other. Why then retract this information? To put it simply, life's details are private, and only earned by the public, through time earned trust, or (the polar opposite) the lack of any real connection or relationship with the other person. It's easy to give people who you do not know (except in the form of fast freinds or aquaintances) personal details.