Privacy is a state of mind

I think that it is interesting the way that people react to the notion of people monitoring their conversations as an afront to their privacy, when many of them go out of their way to spread the details of their personal lives to others.

For example the social networking comment wall serves the same purpose as the social networking message, the only difference is that one is visible to everyone and the other to only you two (or at least a number of people closer to that). Why then, would anyone willingly choose to use the wall post? Why would anyone bother with twitter, telling people not only about your location and current activity, but even what surveillance technology cannot, your thoughts and feelings as well. How can someone act shocked and appalled that the government can monitor their lives in the name of national security when they release their personal lives to people who are interested just for the sake of voyeurism? I of course dont support increased government control over my privacy, but I still find it strange that there is such a double standard.