Private Profile Spy: Compromising Our Privacy on Social Networks

Cheating boyfriend? Unfaithful wife? Or maybe you're just plain nosy. Whatever category you fit in the web has just sunk to all time low. While trying to access the myspace homepage, I accidentally made a typo and wound up on a rather interesting and at the same time disturbing page. A site entitled Private Profile Spy is what I landed on and suddenly I was bombarded with information that just plain creeped me out. According to this page there is a tool you can use to read Myspace profiles that the user has set to private.My first inclination was to feel violated and after that I was all out disgusted with the lengths people go to to retrieve information. What really got me was that there was a line or two about how great this service is if you believe your partner is "myspacing" behind your back. Now I don't exactly know what that mean, but I have a pretty good idea. In the confines of a relationship I wonder if this type of behavior is considered an adulterous act. Are we really that sleazy of a society or has our boundaries of infidelity somehow changed?.

Before computers if you wanted to be unfaithful you had to do it the old fashioned way. As in going out and finding another person to satisfy your needs and hoping you did not get caught. Surprisingly enough the old fashioned way seems a bit more innocent.. There's some sort of extra level of deception lurking in the myths of an online affair. Maybe it's the lure of anonymity or what we think is anonymity. Or maybe it is the fear of being caught. Or maybe there is an element of risk and that pushes people on to do the unthinkable, or what was unthinkable until now. Although I still think it may be hard to hide something like this since most people have virtually everyone they know in their network. Once again there is the risk factor. Maybe that's what makes it so appealing.