Panopticon with regards to online privacy

For my last post in the MGMT 3601 blog, i would like to discuss Panopticon with regards to online privacy. The idea of panopticon in the online community is that you never you never know if what you are viewing, is being viewed by the government or the police or the people at Google. It is the awareness of the user that someone could be watching their searches. This affects the users online privacy because their is always the chance that someone is looking at the web pages you're looking at. You can even get int rouble with the law for searching certain things or go on to watch list, where they watch everything you do online. This idea of Panopticon can also be applied to Facebook in the sense that anything you post can be viewed every single person on your friends list at any given time. They can use your posts or pictures or whatever, any way they would like. There is no longer privacy online because once you post something there is always the possibility that someone saw and saved what you posted even if you delete it soon after. This has been a major problem with Twitter; often athletes will post something on their Twitter when they are angry or in the heat of the moment, then later delete it. However, some one will always see the post and it will become lost in the public sphere. Heres an article regarding Facebook's Online Panopticon http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/09/30/facebook-s-online-panopticon.html