A completely transparent social platform with messaging, activity tracking, content management, knowledge storage, wishlist/preference/opinion management, idea generation, etc.
You might not know yet, but privacy is the root of all evil, and the privacy madness has to stop.
The more we hide, the more we have to hide. It's a never ending cycle.
People don't see the world as it really is. They see the world the way others want it to be seen. They see an artificial, curated version of the world where people have no flaws.
This disconnection between what is real and what we think is real makes people feel broken, different, not good enough. How are they supposed to know that nobody is perfect when everybody actively try to show their perfect side? We all wear masks by fear of rejection, fear of being different.
Just like you, I need privacy because privacy is expected of me. I need to lie because people don't want to hear the truth. I have to wear a mask because everybody else does. Being completely transparent and honest is a sure way to be rejected and jailed. But if I had the choice, I would prefer to be myself, to never have to remember lies, to never have to hide.
Do you think the privacy paradigm is sustainable? Do you think it makes sense to use so much resources to encrypt everything? Do you think it makes sense to hide yourself behind proxies and firewalls? Do you think it makes sense to protect everything with passwords? Do you think it makes sense to keep creating fake profiles online? Do you think it makes sense to disable location tracking on your devices? Do you think it makes sense to constantly worry about others learning the truth? I don't.
I want to live in a world where I don't ever have to recall or input a password or a PIN. I want to live in a world where I don't have to lock my doors, lock my bike, lock my PC. I want to live in a world where I don't need to encrypt anything. I want to live in a world where I don't have to worry about privacy settings at all.
I want financial information to be public. I want all media content to be public. I want my location to be tracked and available to anyone at all time. I want my health records to be available to anyone. I want my every thought and emotion to be queryable. I don't ever want to waste energy communicating with the world information that can be tracked by machines.
In the future, people will not fear the NSA. People will not fear online tracking. People will embrace them. We will soon see people pay third-party services to track their every move, their every thought. Why waste my time being explicit about what I want and do when I can delegate that task to something else? The only thing I should input in a system are my values, my opinions, my feelings. Everything else is objective.
Privacy is the antithesis of society. Privacy is an act of pure selfishness. Privacy is slowing down innovation and discoveries in every possible field. Privacy is what inhibits humanity to reach the next level. I can't think of anything that sustains worries and fears more than society's expectation of privacy.
Privacy is a symptom, a defense mechanism. Privacy is not a cure.
I live in an oppressed country. I need privacy to try to topple the government by any means. They watch us, they hear us, they follow us, the read everything we write, they want us dead, we want them dead.
Survival is a harsh word. Learn it or die.
Do you think Tor, Wikileaks, Bitmessage, Darknet are just toys that geeks code in their basements just for fun?
Do you know Snowden, Assange, Stallman, and many others fight for your rights and your liberty against those who try to oppress you?
Innocence, meet reality.
Privacy is more than a human right, is a vital need.
In heaven you don't need privacy, in hell you don't have it. Welcome to reality.
Please understand there's a right time for private secrets to be revealed. Reveal them too soon, when you are not ready yet, and it causes more harm than good.
> I have to wear a mask because everybody else does.
No you don't. It seems like this is the problem you are trying to solve. It's a subtle problem, in that norms sweep you easily, but it's solution isn't shooting down privacy.
Your comment would also be received better, particular the claims to what privacy is, if it contained citations to peer reviewed, published research.
A completely private social platform with messaging, email, timeline, blog, pics, docs, etc.