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眼下360与QQ正为了时下流行的名词“隐私”，闹的不可开交。一会是360隐私保护器暴QQ扫描用户隐私、一会是QQ弹窗声明“正是为了保护用户安全才扫描用户电脑”……孰是谁非，我且淡定的看、淡定的用。

但不禁想问：“你真的在意隐私吗？”

Do you actually care about privacy?

I’m not sure you do.

If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t have a credit card, because, after all, they know everything you spend money on. And you wouldn’t use the phone, because somewhere, there’s a computer scanning what you say.

What most of us care about is being surprised. You don’t want the credit card company to track where you’re staying and whether you’re buying flowers for someone you’re not even married to–and then send you a free coupon for STD testing, right? Even if it was a good coupon, and even if they knew you needed it. No, you don’t want this because you don’t want to be surprised.

What many people miss about privacy and Facebook is that the company has always taken the position that privacy shouldn’t be assumed. Sure, they’ve mishandled some of their user communications and feature rollouts, but basically, they offer the religion of no-privacy, and an entire generation or two is ready to grow up in public as a result. We’re just not eager to be surprised along the way.

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你真的在意隐私吗？

我不确你在意。

如果你真的在意隐私你就不会办信用卡，无论如何，他们知道你把钱花在什么地方。你也不会用电话（手机），因为在某个地方，有电脑在扫描你说了什么。

我们真正在意的，是惊讶。你不想要信用卡公司知道你呆在哪里；为哪个不是你老婆的女人买了花儿；以及在节日的时候给你送了一张优惠卷，即使这张优惠卷很好，即使他们知道你需要它，你还是不想让这样的事情发生，因为你不想被惊讶到。

人们怀念隐私和 FaceBook 是因为 FaceBook 所表现出来的立场是保护隐私，虽然实际上当它们泄露了用户隐私的时候是在为“无隐私信仰”提供依据。我们整代人或者下一代人已经在准备公开自己（社交网站就是一种），只是在这个公开的过程中，人们不想被惊讶到而已。

此处英文部分载自：Seth’s Blg  特此声明！