Transparency Beats Privacy on Social Media

Transparency Beats Privacy on Social Media

Social Media
You can't have social media without being social. And...you can't really be social without being transparent. That’s why transparency beats privacy on social media...every time. Being private means to be holding something back, to be hiding something from public view…and ideally, social media is transparent, fully transparent. That's what I believe, anyway, and that was the premise...kinda sorta...of the 2017 movie, The Circle. The Circle was based on a novel written by Dave Eggers in 2013. The movie is about a tech company called The Circle which places small cameras everywhere to provide real-time video of practically everything. It's a little creepy, sure, and certainly scary for some. But it is my opinion that the premise of the movie, the pros and cons of being fully transparent, is something that…
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