You're Leaving A Digital Trail

All I could think of while reading this article was how much Marcus Yallow would disapprove! In "Little Brother," privacy was what Marcus demanded. However, in our society with the internet and social networking, privacy is probably unattainable.

My boyfriend, Mark, does not have a Facebook. I think it is so weird! Almost everyone has one for good reason. He, however, had one and never used it. He goes to Xavier University, which is an incredibly small school, and said that many of his friends there don't have one either. Even without a Facebook, I can Google his name find out almost everything there is to know about him.

The final statement of this article suggests that perhaps this is a good thing, because we are creating a "global village," which is keeping up with the tradition of people throughout history living in "small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew" (Dr. Malone).