W9 : I won’t be at home tonight guys !

Ok, I admit it, the article is an extract from a girly magazine…but I liked the way the author Kimberly Goad is raising the question of the security outside the cyber space. Even if it is two separated worlds, they are strongly connected due to the increasing number of users of social networks, and people who wants to get an unreal life. For my part, I am to naïve to think that whatever you post on Facebook, in this case, or Twitter, some people could use it for a wrong purpose. Anyway, this social phenomenon has always existed. Some people can ruin a project, a company, even a society, just by hacking, looting, stilling, because they think they can emphasised their thoughts and their rights. This group of persons think that it is the right way to express themselves. Back to Facebook, we have our circle of friends, we share thoughts and so many others things. Most of the time, we expose our life to the others. The problem is the control of our profile, or even more : the control of our cyber life. The question is : what do I want to do with it ? This is simple, but so many people forget it and loose the control of their private life. We are watching each other constantly, and that doesn’t disturb anyone now. We developed a new state of mind, which is cyber, or online, voyeurism. If we try to define voyeurism, there is this notion where we are hiding (somewhere) to watch something. But this is new because we are still hiding behind our computers, or screens, but everyone knows that a friend or someone else is checking our profile and all our own data (date of birth, pictures, school career). This explains that there are different levels of watching. And the paradoxical fact is people keeps publishing, and updating their status, their profile. Some of them complain themselves, or some of them gossip about profile they read, but when sign up for this website they knew how it works. With the story happened in this article, we could wonder if the term friend still means this strong amicable relationship between two persons. I am asking this question because the police was pretty sure that the burglar was in “Keri's nearly 600 Facebook friends, the alleged suspect had access to her profile page” (Goad 2010). So does it mean that he is still a friend to Keri ? Of course not, it would make no sense.