privacy: an anonymous poll of sorts
Jun. 3rd, 2008 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's no way to do anonymous polls here, so I turned off IP logging and people can leave anonymous comments.
YES/NO: When you are in someone else's house or space, do you/would you look through their medicine cabinet, open their dresser drawers, look through a pile of papers, etc? (I'm not talking about needing a band-aid and looking for one--I'm talking about snooping.)
Also feel free to add your thoughts: do you expect that people will do this sometimes, even if you personally feel it's wrong? *Do* you feel it's wrong? Does it matter how close you are to the person? Does it matter if they're relatives?
I had an experience once where a guest staying in a my room made it obvious that they'd read a college application essay I'd been keeping in my desk drawer. Clearly, then, some people do this sort of stuff and some people think it's totally okay. I am of many minds on this.
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Date: 2008-06-04 03:05 am (UTC)in sum, if it's out b/c the person didn't bother to clean up, it's sort of fair game, but looking at personal papers should be avoided.
i also try to keep my eyes off papers and computer screens when i go into other people's offices at work, but that is more about avoiding the appearance of being a snoop and also b/c it bugs me when people come into my office and start looking at everything i have out.