What Mae has come to realize about the “community” in the Circle  is that in order to be successful she has to abandon what was once her privacy. Data concerning Mae must be public. That data can vary from what she did with her dad on the weekend to her medical records and medical history. She is obligated to share this information and be transparent with her coworkers. No secrets are tolerated. If I was to incorporate are current unit, civic engagement at the Circle is not only having a physical presence. Their idea of civic engagement is through social media and the employees are ranked by PartiRank. The PartiRank considers all activity in Inner Circle, their social media platform. Gina told Mae that get rank was only taken seriously by some circlers. Data and privacy are intertwined because the more Mae decides to post, comment, and be active on social media about where she is and how she feels she loses her privacy.

At first, Mae was hesitant to fully immerse herself into the companies culture but now she does gladly. When she was first introduced to the social media platform her rank was 10,328. Then after her first day of liking, commenting, and posting she was exhilarated with the new found social media. Following that, Mae saw the downside to the being overt with data when in my opinion, Annie violated her privacy. After Mae’s slow response to several responses messages sent by Annie she was scolded by Annie because she wasn’t where Annie thought she should. Mae couldn’t have twenty minutes to herself without the question of where she was. This was one of the first examples of Mae’s lack of privacy having a negative impact. When Mae was on a date with her co worker, data about her was used for a material for a comedy show. All the comedian had to do was search her name and find out information that may have been private in usual circumstances. Mae had a brief hiatus from must social media involving the circle after that. She missed team building activities and mandatory newbie parties at the expense of not posting and providing any new data. Her life was private again for that one weekend. Once Mae returned to work, she was reprimanded for not sharing data and relinquishing her privacy. Dan made it clear that family is important however, no family matters should ever affect the community in the Circle. Dan also helped Mas realize that whatever she does whether it be an on campus activity or with family needs to be posted. He was more upset that she hadn’t posted and gave data than he was about her actually being at the events missed. She put her full effort into her PartiRank after her conversation with Dan. She went on a social media spree bringing her score all the way up 2,009. She disregarded her need for privacy in order to do what would help her grow at the circle. She now has a lot more followers and activity, not to mention well known. With all the data she’s made public and posted she’s sacrificed her privacy completely.