Now, I am not saying that people should start creating fake profiles, but privacy is a right and our rights and strengths are only visible when we use them or else they vanish slowly and gradually over the span of time.

There was a time when people used to visit internet forums and create their profiles with their usernames, and their identity was always saved from others.

No doubt not everyone is bad on the internet, but there shouldn't be a need to have your physical and virtual life to be connected. You should have the choice to choose whatever persona you like. Now it might sound like a millennial or baby boomer kind of thing, but this is important for every single person on Earth.

Privacy and the power to hide our names not only give us the power to share things that we wouldn't have shared physically but also give us the power to stand up to injustice. Although, some people might use this power to defame someone or to troll others, but because of some people, we should not take this power from every other user on the internet.

When Facebook came, it changed the way people used to connect. Suddenly, everyone's public and private lives got connected online, and everyone started knowing everyone.

Lost friends connected only and even families around the world connected. This also led to those people in our lives that we never wanted to connect with. For example, not everyone wants to connect with their boss on Facebook or LinkedIn.

Similarly, WhatsApp created this urgency in the lives of people around the world, and now people are always connected, and they are pinged at night or if they kept their phone on flight mode, there were still being sent messages and calls if they connected on wifi on a holiday trip to complete their work or for some urgent work that would have come.

This all is just rubbish!

Where is the privacy of people these days? Why do you want to give your privacy to someone who will use it later to feed you with stuff that you never needed, but have been brainwashed to use as they were showing the feeds again and again until you start craving for the same.

Social Networks and other tech giants have so much information about us that we are not able to live our lives without their intervention.

Our feeds are all filled with advertisements. There is less information about what we have subscribed to and more information about what these companies want to advertise to us. They segregate us as per geography and show advertisements and sponsored content as per the location.

They won't let us connect with other people from around the world, because they want to localize their feeds and that is what will cause more impact, hence these days we don't find friend suggestions and other people on social networks easily from other countries, but from the countries that we live in.

This is wrong and we should take charge of what is being shared with these social networks and tech giants.

It is time to create profiles on social networks and forums that let you create your own username and let you hide your information as per your needs. 

This is not that difficult, we should not be receiving Instant Messaging notifications on our mobile phones every single day. We should be visiting websites that we like and it shouldn't be a forced pull from the social networking websites.

What do you think about your privacy and the tech world that has been created around us? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Also, if you want to take charge of your own privacy, you can join this platform, which provides you the power to create your own username and profile without disclosing your information.