At the dawn of the modern internet, when message boards, IRC, and gaudy low-res personal websites were en vogue, privacy was the name of the game. Giving out your personal details online was highly frowned upon—even giving out your real name was a rarity, let alone your real location, place of employment, or family members.

Since the rise of social media, this is no longer the case. This scrupulous obsession with online privacy has given way to networking sites whose sole purpose is to advertise real details about users to the public. And, of course, to the private corporations that purchase the data of such users.

This is “surveillance capitalism”, the most recent mutation of Capitalism 1.0. And increasingly, an inescapable part of many of our lives. Social media is becoming an integral part of both the social and professional spheres, making “going off the grid” more and more difficult.

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