Happy New Year!
"I just hopped out of the shower. It's cold. LOL"
"Left my house 15 minutes ago and I forgot to turn on the security alarm :{ "
"My married girlfriend is having my baby"
As I look upon 2013 with optimism and hope that the tragedies, devastation, and catastrophes that rocked 2012 are behind us along with another year, I am perplexed and overwhelmed by the constant influx of intimate information that people insist on sharing with the world via social media and the mainstream media as well.
Over the past year the most personal details of one's life have been publicized whether voluntarily or involuntarily. Veteran government officials who have been married for decades are being outed as adulterers via email. Suicides are being recorded or live streamed via YouTube and Ustream.
There are a generation of people who are completely comfortable sharing everything from what goes on in their bedrooms, the content of their toilets after using the restroom to incriminating themselves in crimes.
Privacy has become nothing more than a fantasy as the world is converted into a culture of 24 hour Internet junkies. Private citizens have become society's Paparazzi as camera phones invade households like pests.
Now in my early 30s, I believe that we are leaving the planet in the hands of a generation of oversharers. I am not certain what the impact will be so for now I just watch from the sidelines, observe and report. I do not have an Instagram account and my Facebook page reads like the first few chapters of "America's Most Inspiring Quotes" but I am a person who cherishes my privacy. I revel in anonymity and worship confidentiality. In a world where the Internet is a vault of preserved achievements and failures, secrets and successes, it baffles me that people willingly live their lives so transparently without regard for the future.
"I just hopped out of the shower. It's cold. LOL"
"Left my house 15 minutes ago and I forgot to turn on the security alarm :{ "
"My married girlfriend is having my baby"
As I look upon 2013 with optimism and hope that the tragedies, devastation, and catastrophes that rocked 2012 are behind us along with another year, I am perplexed and overwhelmed by the constant influx of intimate information that people insist on sharing with the world via social media and the mainstream media as well.
Over the past year the most personal details of one's life have been publicized whether voluntarily or involuntarily. Veteran government officials who have been married for decades are being outed as adulterers via email. Suicides are being recorded or live streamed via YouTube and Ustream.
There are a generation of people who are completely comfortable sharing everything from what goes on in their bedrooms, the content of their toilets after using the restroom to incriminating themselves in crimes.
Privacy has become nothing more than a fantasy as the world is converted into a culture of 24 hour Internet junkies. Private citizens have become society's Paparazzi as camera phones invade households like pests.
Now in my early 30s, I believe that we are leaving the planet in the hands of a generation of oversharers. I am not certain what the impact will be so for now I just watch from the sidelines, observe and report. I do not have an Instagram account and my Facebook page reads like the first few chapters of "America's Most Inspiring Quotes" but I am a person who cherishes my privacy. I revel in anonymity and worship confidentiality. In a world where the Internet is a vault of preserved achievements and failures, secrets and successes, it baffles me that people willingly live their lives so transparently without regard for the future.
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