When considering privacy, Americans trust landlines over cell phones and various forms of digital communication. So it makes perfect sense that use of landlines is consistently dropping. Why? Because we live in a privacy opposite world. The NYT’s Claire Cain Miller sums it up: Americans say they want privacy, but act as if they don’t. There must be something about sharing personal information that means more to us than our own privacy (and much more to us than Kim Kardashian’s privacy).

+ Pew: Public perceptions of privacy and security in the post-Snowden era.