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On Facebook and Online, Privacy Is Only an Illusion

www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/02/on-facebook-and-online-privacy-is-only-an-illusion042

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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.

As our public selves merge perceptibly with our private selves on social networks, our notions of what constitutes privacy -- arguably even the very definition of privacy -- is undergoing a radical revision.