Two opposing trends characterize the 2020 everyday life if we look at it from the perspective of privacy.
On the one hand, there is the need to grow our private space having safety as the major criterion. Whether we are talking about everyone’s own workplace, or – above all – the private space that defines our home, there is a trend of expansion, distancing from others and re-formulation of the space based on the new functionality and the priority of hygiene conditions.
On the other hand, the steady trend of recent years to restrict privacy, in the sense of the growing penetration of social media cameras in the – more or less – personal moments of everyone, continues unabated. Thus, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally, the moments of privacy become “shared” in the circle of followers or even “news” if the subject is more widely known.
The media – pretend that they – do not see the contradiction and try to stand between the two trends. As traditional “enemy” of privacy, they now find an ally in voluntary “posting” maliciously or not. As equally traditional promoters of the trends of each era, they duly highlight the new “fashion” of expanding the private space.
Today, they feel convenient as… servants of two masters. Tomorrow, who knows?
