Personal Business
2020 09 10 | journal
I was speaking with a friend the other day about the idea of privacy in the current age and how young folk don’t seem to have a sense of it. Everything is shared because they either share it themselves by choice or because they’re used to their lives being overshared by their parents online so it’s just the way their life is. They don’t have a concept of keeping things to themselves in the same way that I think anyone GenX or older does, anyone who did not spend the bulk of their life, particularly their formative years, umbilicalled to the internet in one way or another.
By some folks’ standards I could be considered an online over-sharer, and I won’t argue that. I talk about personal things a lot. But those are generally things I either don’t care that the public knows or that I specifically want the public to know. This doesn’t mean I don’t have a sense of privacy. I do.
The one thing I do not share online are details of how I view my own inadequacies. Those are the things I consider too private or sensitive to share. I have them, believe me. I know my faults, my sins, my mistakes, my shortcomings, my weaknesses, my wants, and my sorrows, but I generally don’t share them online. Those are mine to keep or to share only in actual in-person conversation.