Sunday, November 27, 2011

Publicity


With the advent of social media on the internet, the personal life has unarguably been changed; but is this for better or for worse? What implications does this hold? In the past, not considering the affects of rumors, what was said and done in public or with a certain group of people could be expected to stay relatively private. This is not the case with the online social domain, where an intermingling of private and public has caused the “fired for Facebook” phenomenon. While one might sympathize with, or pity the stupidity of these people, it is clear that the definitions of public and private, at least to the laymen, have changed.

Here is a link to a relevant article:

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