The Net Generation and Privacy

I  have wondered what the definition of privacy is for Net Generation students who have  grown up with access to the Internet easily.There are many definitions of what the mean privacy is. According to Ruth Gavison, who is an Israeli Law professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, there are three elements in privacy: secrecy, anonymity and solitude. It is a state which can be lost, whether through the choice of the person in that state or through the action of another person.I want to add one more definition about privacy, according to Robert Ellis Smith, editor of the Privacy Journal, defined privacy as “the desire by each of us for physical space where we can be free of interruption, intrusion, embarrassment, or accountability and the attempt to control the time and manner of disclosures of personal information about ourselves.”

Almost all the definitions are alike but for The Net Generation privacy have not got the same definitions .The Net Generation students seem to have no problems opening up their lives, sharing personel informations  to strangers via the web used increasingly by The Net Generation students .It is a fact that internet has many advantages, for instance; it enables people to reach every information they want and so internet is an indispensable tool for The Net Generation.Most of the net generation students do not  pay attention to the privacy. They share everythin about themselves on the internet.I strongly believe that they consider privacy an old-fashioned idea.

As a conclusion, Although; the web has got many benefits for The Net Generation students it has got negative effects like privacy as I said at the begining of my article.While The Net Generation students are using internet they do not pay attention privacy.They think of privacy as an unimportant idea.

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