Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?

Young people share the most intimate details of personal life on social-networking Web sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, portending a realignment of the public and the private
By Daniel J. Solove
August, 2008

• Social-networking sites allow seemingly trivial gossip to be distributed to a worldwide audience, sometimes making people the butt of rumors shared by millions of users across the Internet.
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  Public sharing of private lives has led to a rethinking of our current conceptions of privacy.
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  Existing law should be extended to allow some privacy protection for things that people say and do in what would have previously been considered the public domain.

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