Privacy is something that is typically quite important to most people, of which, ordinary people understand the prudence and value of having what they so desire to be private, remain private. The thing is that we live in a modern age, in which, never have so many ordinary people been essentially placed in the uncomfortable position of not themselves being truly in the driver’s seat of what information about themselves, that ends up thereby being circulated to the general public. That is to say, a lot of people, really don’t comprehend social media, and how insidious that social media can be when it comes to who does and who does not control that person’s information. It is, to a very large extent, social media that has taken ordinary people that are living fairly ordinary lives, that thus places these people into the somewhat vulnerable position of having what they consider to be basically their life events, being freely available for the general public to comment and to gaze upon.
No doubt, social media companies have those many pages of Terms and Conditions that permits them to thus do whatever that they so do, subject to those Terms and Conditions which users are pretty much compelled to agree to in order to use that social media platform; and further to the point, undoubtedly there are options available to the user that permits them, if they can even find these options or know about them, to seem to be able to somewhat control how their information is disseminated. The bottom line, though, is that as currently structured those that use social media, really don’t understand how public the information that they post can readily become, and how this information can then travel to all sorts of different places, websites, sponsors, and advertisers.
So too, the biggest social media users are young in age, and are still maturing in mind and body, so that what they have posted at a previous day and age may not be something that they wish to see continue to be exposed and commented upon, forever. So then, it is essential that social media sites, should be regulated in a way and manner in which those that wish to exert their right to privacy, have the right to erase previous posts and the tentacles to those posts, so as to achieve dominion over their own private lives.
Indeed, we have the natural right to be simply left alone, and we should as sovereign individuals be able to have the right to our own thoughts, our own musings, and our own pictures and videos, Those then that have control of their own privacy and are protected by their governance in that right, are people that have secured their essential right to privacy. This privacy right is necessary because prudence dictates that we should be able to live within a society in which our person, our property, and our comings and goings, are ours to own, second to no social media company or government.