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Recently when teaching an educator class, a story from a participant made me thing about facebook. In her case (like mine) she has chosen to not have an account for privacy sake. She does not want her picture posted everywhere, does not feel the need to share through media what she is doing, etc. She was upset when a friend of hers asked her about a party she had been at, etc. She knew she had not talked with this friend about it and asked her where she found out. She was told that she saw her picture on facebook as she was a "friend" of the person who had the party. We had a deep discussion on whether that is an invasion of privacy and how or if we can control anything like that. In our cases, neither of us has an account as we do not want to be publicly posted, etc. but others can still post our picture and we would never even know. In essence our privacy is no longer within our control. It was a scary thought--back in printed picture days a friend might share a few of them with you in it with another, but now your picture without any of your permission can go out to hundreds at a time. We know her friend was not trying to upset her in any way or share anything "wrong" but it does show how even the most innocent act can invade someones private life and pose the question that we essentially may really never have any control again over our private lives. Scary
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