Privacy and Generation Y

Privacy and Generation Y: Applying Library Values to Social Networking Sites by Peter Fernandez. This is also an article that I used for my literature review. In it Fernandez says, "In the digital age, potential threats to privacy have expanded, and questions of privacy must be considered in situations where confidentiality is no longer such a clear concern. Traditional statements about privacy make it clear that it would be a problem if, for instance, a patron’s confidential conversations with a librarian were being monitored without the patron’s consent within a SNS." Privacy is not something that we really think about until it is invaded. But as librarians it has always been a part of are code to make sure that people's privacy is protected. But Fernandez is right in our day and age it has become more and more difficult to protect peoples privacy. Partially due to thie persons ignorance when it comes to social networking safety but from others out with the intent to invade their privacy. It is our job to keep the information that our patrons provide us with safe and this task has become increasingly difficult with social media outreach.