What do People Know About Me?
In the swirling maelstrom that is the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook dibacle it is worth us all asking this question. What do people know about me? There are different sides to us all, the side we show our friends and family and the one we share with our colleagues and classmates - the public and private. This is nothing new, social scientists and psychologists have been discussing the blurring lines between our public and private lives since the 1980s if not earlier. Ask people who are in their 30s and they may be more aware of the difference between their public and private lives, they might even talk about the 'right to privacy' but most people under 30 rarely have that expectation (or if they do it is in areas of their lives where older people do not expect it). What is your expectation of privacy? We talk about privacy more in terms of our 'settings' on social media apps or websites than we do in terms of our private lives away from the public view. Is this becau