Week Eight Reading Reaction #1

This week one of the readings looks at the issues of blogs. Most of us will recognize the points made in this article as it should be familiar to us since we have done this over the course of the summer. However, I was thinking about the issue of privacy which is pointed out in the article and many of the points that are made I thought brought up a couple of issues for me about blogging. The first issue was the types of rights people have on their blogs when it comes to privacy. In this ever shrinking world where every bit of information is collated, recorded and transferred, there seems to be very little hope of keeping information private. This seems even less so when you decide to put your information out into a public sphere, which I feel should not warrant any sense of privacy. I feel that when you decide to actively put information out into an arena where their is public view, the right to privacy can only be controlled by the person doing the posting. Ultimately it is up to the person to decide what to and what not to post depending on how much they wish to be revealed. The real control rests with the poster of the information.