Dear Diary
How can something be both personal and not private?
It seems like young people have no secrets. It is more rule than exception to share problems, ideas, photo’s, and movies over the internet with the entire world. We think that young people are too careless with personal information. This lack of care is not strange, because this generation is overwhelmed by digital
social media like Faceboek, LinkedIn, Flickr, and YouTube.
The enthusiastic users of the internet usually do not realize that each click on a keyboard or mouse leaves digital traces. Traces like the websites they visit, how often they visit these websites, who they write e-mail to and even the content of these emails. Everything in the digital world is traceable.
Due to new media and technologies, it is clear that our appreciation of privacy has drastically changed and more and more personal data can be found in cyberspace. The virtual and the real world are becoming one. This seems to work in two directions. On the one hand, people actively try to bring their offline characteristics, organizational structures and prejudices into the virtual
world. On the other hand, cyberspace intrudes on the real world through household appliances, mobile phones,
creditcards et cetera.
Dear diary is a modern diary translation. With a key you can open the front where you find the computer.
