How do you protect your privacy?

Hi, leateagee! For the most part, I think there's just something about me that prevents people from asking me much. Maybe it's a look I have. Or just the way I am. I don't know. Mostly I don't like too many people and keep pretty much to myself. But on the few occasions when someone has asked me something I feel is none of their business I have said "Is that any of your business???" Or I will say "What??" and if they're stupid enough to repeat a nosy question I say "WHAT???" again only a little louder. Usually they get it. If they don't I just keep saying "WHAT???" They get it sooner or later. I do have a niece that's pretty nosy. I normally just tell her "That's NONE of your business. Don't be so nosy" or "Mind your own business." I have no problem being rude to people, since it's probably somebody I don't like in the first place because no one I like would be that nosy. Except my niece. And I'm not sure how much I like her.

I generally avoid nosy persons for i think this is the best solution in preventing them prying into my life. However in circumstances that it would be impossible to do so I drive conversations away from own life. I don't delve too in topics relating to his personal life as this will give him leeway to twist the topic to mine. And at times it feels safer to talk about things rather than personal lives of whoever it may be.

To be frank , I didnt have much issues with privacy till now. I have a set of understanding friends as well as colleagues. Even when I get a call at wee hours, they dont ask me who it was and all. they never bothered to get involve in my privacy. So I am quite happy to have such bunch of people with me.

it is hard to protect privacy when you own people are their to see what you do everyday. It is just that don't share what they have not seen or are not able to see, maybe what you do at work and what friends you have at work. I had same relatives and then i was tired. i wanted to go to a place where I knew no one and it happened just like that. I am in a place where I know no one and no one knows me. It was a good fresh start of life..hmm I am away from home and miss my family but I am away from all those gossips and no one here stick there nose in my business. I like it this way and life is tension free. I don't have to think what this one or that one will think about me..I love lie this way. This was how I got privacy in life and i am happy.. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

Just plain and simple , i don't care about other's business also ! I cling to the old line which says " do not do unto others ,what you don't want to be done to yourself. I need to mind my own life , be good to others , never say a word if all those words are humiliating.

answering "secret" in a jokingly manner is always my best weapon against any questions that might invade my privacy, it's not offensive but very effective,..

there are those people who are almost always nosy. i am a private person and so actually i am often always just not the type whose lives everyone knows about. i rarely talk about my self and stuffs so people just are not interested in knowing more about me, i guess.

leaeagee yes we all need p rivacy.,If someone asks me a question that i feel is none of their concern that is what I answer,' sorry but thats personal and I do not share that,aa doe awxewra in d families I abhor a lot of stupid heart breaking secrets. I uphold that families should all tell the truth and not lie about things' as it just ca uses heart ache for other in hte fam ily that hae to learn unhapp y things. I am choosy who I am friends with and I do not have friends that gossip,.Also I lead a clean open life as I have no secrets nothing to be ashamed of at all.I live by the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto you,

Those people are jealous. Have hidden envy towards you. There is no other reason why they're watching your every move- but jealous. Ignore them and never show them that you are affected. The moment they feel that you are affected the more they do nasty things. But, by showing them that you are NEVER AFFECTED- You are depriving them from their satisfaction. The more you get affected, the more satisfied they are. The more you ignore them, the more they feel bad. So, hold your head up high and look them straight while raising one eyebrow

Privacy is a basic norm of democracy, but these days it looks privacy is almost archaic.

hi!! all of us has own privacy. in my own if the asked me about my privacy i do lie to them to cover up my privacy to protect me. i dont want any negative feedbacks.

If it comes to my privacy I guess I have none. We all have our own room/place but everybody seems to find it normal to see my stuff, my room as theirs. I try to change that but even my bed they see as a place where they can stay as well. To be honest I can't stand it that kids and husband find it normal that what is mine is theirs (esp. my husband) but that they see their own stuff, place, cellphone, friends, etc as something private (well not my little kids do). If it comes to outsiders (rest of the family, friends, acquintances, neighbours) I keep them out(side) as much as possible. My (bed)room is private so is the upstairs part of the house (other rooms, bathroom, etc). There are not much subjects I consider as private or I would not talk about. No matter with whom (kids, family, friends, strangers). It all depends on the situation and the person I meet/speak with. If I don't speak about anything it's mostly because I don't see the need to or I am too tired to talk/listen. If it comes to gossips.. nobody can keep it free from that. It all depends on the people you meet or have to live in between. If you tell everything they will gossip, if you tell them nothing they will gossip (and make up stories about you) as well. It's not the gossipers that count but how you deal with it. If you live your own life you will probably not even notice it.

I think it is very hard to avoid all of those interrupt because we living in a modern community.So if we what some privacy we had better keep something just in my mind and do not share to anybody.As for those gossips,I think we all need a strong mind to conflict with it cause we can not avoid it sometimes.

Hi. I think one should be polite to others' business. if people would not like to say something, others shouldn't stick their nose into it. If someone is sad and you want to comfort him or her you can be there with him or her ,saying nothing, If he or she would like to speak ,He or she would do it.