ARTICLE:Would you ever show strangers photos of you in a bikini? Of your baby in the bath, or the outside of your house? Probably not, but chances are many of us have done similar over-sharing on social media, not just to our friends, but also the people that we don't talk to, friended but didn't know, and a slew of other questionable characters. Many more if us have never changed our privacy settings, or taken steps to stop hackers, advertisers or strangers from seeing our information online. Why? Behavioral scientists we're trying to figure out just that. Some reasons include ignorance; it's a huge internet world out there, and we just aren't aware of who can see what. Another is we trade our privacy in order to use certain apps or sites, where the transaction of our email address and personal info is given a value. Some interesting findings, like our willingness to sell our info is greater than our desire to pay for it, we reflexively accept default privacy settings, being caught in a privacy/control paradox, we fall for misdirection, and perhaps most simple but true, we're addicted to being connected, and we're willing to overlook all sorts of things to get our fix.
SITE: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/10/science-behind-why-nobody-cares-about-online-privacy
