Unless FBI agents are sitting in a van across the street from the church photographing the guests arriving for your daughter’s wedding, odds are nobody's listening in on your telephone calls either.

It’s difficult to understand why the use of instant communication has become so irresistible that people are eager to shed their inhibitions and reveal—in words and pictures—that which heretofore fell into the “it’s none of your business” category.

Why do people who revere the principle of “in the privacy of my own home” spend time in their own home abandoning their privacy?

A Peeping Tom no longer has to skulk around in the dead of night in search of a parted curtain. All he needs is Twitter, a cell phone and a Facebook page.

Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Richard Stockton College.

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