# Privacy in the new world

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2013-09-08
**Categories:** berkeley, i-share-therefore-i-am, instagram, ready-or-not, twitter, uncategorized
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/privacy-in-the-new-world

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Remember when you first started using the internet and nobody wanted to reveal their actual identity? Everyone used aliases, because it was weird to share sensitive information - like your full name - on the internet. One of my earliest usernames was bdonn. I used it for everything. I had bdonn@aol.com. Well, things have certainly changed. Could you have imagined that we’d get to a world where “over sharing” is viewed as a real - albeit first world - problem and phrases like “I share therefore I am” get thrown around. It’s a pretty dramatic departure from how we used to feel about privacy. And for the younger generation, who grew up entirely with social media, I don’t even think privacy is on the radar. Some would argue that this is a problem, which is why a group of academics over at Berkeley created a web app called Ready or Not? What it does is allow anyone to enter a Twitter or Instagram username and see a plotted map of where that user has shared from. Here’s what it spit out for me based on my recent tweets: The hope is that this will promote awareness around the fact that even one short tweet could be potentially revealing your exact geographic location. But I wonder to what extent people are actually unaware that this is happening or is just that they’re comfortable sharing this information? What do you think?

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