Is there really such an act of Privacy?

What is the meaning of privacy?

Is it shutting the door behind you and locking it and claiming anonymity from the world?

Is it writing a journal with all the thoughts and events of the day?

As far as I todays interpretation of privacy is understood, there is little chance of maintaining any real freedom from interference!

With the likes of Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and many more social feeds where by the citizens of the world are persistently updating their lives to inform all and sundry of what is transpiring from minute to minute.

We are all guilty of it to some extent apart from perhaps the older generations who remain oblivious to all that is social media.  A more naïve attitude to technology is something I favor. 

It has been said that freedom of expression is the bedrock upon which a democracy is built.

Society is readily willing to express themselves, in my opinion a little too freely, but then why do “we” protest from the invasion of privacy?

Privacy, in my opinion goes hand in hand with trust.  One requires their privacy, but because of rise in cynicism, it goes hand in hand with trust.  If you are in a relationship, why are individuals who make up this “team” so precious with their phones, laptops, tablets etc.   Why are facebook passwords never disclosed?

Why are we so eager (and by we, I mean the general population,  and I am proud not to be privy to this) to disclose our deepest secrets and feelings over social networking forums yet deadly opposed to sharing a password or allowing a preview into ones phone with those we claim we love?

We live in a world of hypocrisy and anarchy.   A society that curses the media and the paparazzi for reporting on matters that we in turn report ourselves.  Celebrity status seems to be what many crave and thus by advertising themselves over social media feeds, racking up the followers and the friends etc, people, in their minds, believe they have made it.  I am not saying that I am against the acts of social media, I mean, I would be lost without it.  What I object to are those who mock, hate, sue the media yet are the very people who are advertising themselves over the internet with their very own fingers.

Take me back to a time of the letter, the notebook,, the face to face meetings.  Take me back to a time when you couldn’t be tracked or find a loved one is dishonest through a text.  Take me back to a time when the meaning of the word privacy meant just that….

the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people: she returned to the privacy of her own home.

• the state of being free from public attention: a law to restrict newspapers' freedom to invade people's privacy.