She thinks it’s absurd, not to mention blaming the victim, to say that we’re reckless with our privacy online. Online is where our individual needs get met, because they aren’t being met in real life. Zuboff has equal compassion for our promiscuities on social media, as compromising as they may be to our privacy. Status online has become compensation for living in an environment of economic instability. I think, in my own life, about the first random person whose friend request I accepted on Facebook.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2019 21:11 UTC