Have internet users lost a sense of privacy?

See, that question could be answered two ways depending on whether you’re looking at it positively or negatively.

Positively, people are sharing more of themselves, users are finding new ways to express themselves and allowing others to see parts of themselves that they might not have shown in public, some quirky talent that has got 543,105 views on youtube is

but negatively, people could be showing parts of themselves that perhaps they shouldn’t be showing to everyone, and EVERYONE does have access to what you post online.. like for example in the George P. Landow’s Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization he explains how he was searching for how many people had created a blog and was sent to a personal page of a woman who was explaining how many people she had slept with, “i assume there blogger intends the site for her friends, but Google mistakenly brought me there, as it may well bring her parents and employers. It is very difficult to maintain this kind of public privacy.”. Landow continues to say that “In their immediacy and accessibility, in their seemingly unmediated state, Web diaries blur the distinction between online and offline lives, virtual reality and real life, public and private.”

Perhaps because users are sitting behind a screen, they forget that whilst there not exposing their secrets directly to someones ears, they’re telling the world because everyone has access to that information. Landow even covers a rebuttal with the comment that “many bloggers screen comments, and protect their posts with passwords but once an entry goes online internet search engines can bring it to the attention of web surfers.”
Once you upload or share something on the internet, on a blog or social media page, it’s accessible to whoever knows how to find it.