Social media and privacy/anonymity always cross paths at some point. Someone is always trying to find out more about your personal life than you would like to provide. With a BCI, privacy becomes less and less of an issue. With an active, constant connection to a social network, people can easily monitor who is accessing their information; however at the same time, people can constantly "lurk" other people's profile pages without consequence.
The one thing that may end up being an issue is security. Although it was not discussed much in class last week, security could be a big problem. With quite literal direct access to another person's brain, who knows what could actually happen? Privacy could end up being violated because all of that personal information is stored in the brain, and with direct access to that information, privacy becomes a great concern.
This is all speculation, of course. No one truly knows how privacy and security will matter. It is a common theme right now, but things may be completely different if this technology were to ever exist.
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