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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by derefr on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:11PM (#19793655)
More specifically, privacy is about things that you want to isolate to one sub-self and its corresponding social circle.

Everyone leads a “double life” (or N lives) to some degree, and privacy is the societal etiquette allowing for the continued separation of those lives (without having to go to the effort of using real OPSEC to isolate them.)

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:00PM (#19793887)
So much this. I don't really want my work, my online life, and my family to collide very much, but within each sphere of general influence, I want to be able to reach out and interact with people fairly openly. The best way, of course, is to carefully curate different identities online, but that feels dishonest at times and can be problematic on occasion.
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by frutiger on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:02AM (#19794445)
> The best way, of course, is to carefully curate different identities online

Doesn’t this only work if all your interactions are online? Otherwise your family might meet your colleagues at your birthday party (or whatever you might celebrate).

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by tremon on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:09PM (#19798487)
No this works offline too. For example, I would think that my friends have the decency not to talk to my grandmother about my sexual preferences, even if the two happen to meet at my birthday.
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by frutiger on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:05PM (#19804252)
But if you hold your boyfriend’s hand during your birthday your grandmother would probably wise up to your sexual preferences.
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by pishpash on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:16PM (#19793686)
Admittedly, Google+ tried with circles but sounds like a bandaid to a problem that didn't exist in the first place until Facebook along with myopic social do-gooders forced everyone to use real names online.
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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by iainmerrick on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:21AM (#19795165)
Google+ wanted real names too.
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