I've said many times in previous blog posts that new media is highly promoted through convenience. The downside of this convenience is that it is more prone to violating of privacy.
Additionally, real life and Internet do not blend rules very well. Getting unauthorized access to someone's Facebook account is different from reading their private journal, and the consequences of doing so can be severely different.
The standard of privacy is also changing at a steep slope over the recent years. I saw a picture recently (can't find, unfortunately) about Facebook and default privacy settings. At launch, Facebook had nearly everything only available to friends - wall posts, pictures, stuff like that. Nowadays, default, Facebook has many things open to the public. The first thing anyone should do when they make a Facebook account is adjust their privacy settings accordingly, but the problem with that new users are...well...new and unless someone nudges this towards them, privacy is not their first concern.
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