Shallow Thoughts

omitting is the new black

justnatasha:

Not even 5 years ago, you would have your parents laughing at you (or possibly worried) for saying, “my internet friend and I met at…”. Even the idea of getting on video or sharing something on the web was crazy. Now, not only are we videoblogging and divuldging what we are thinking at every moment, but we’re even rabidly posting whereever we go, who we’re with and making opinions public that may ignore common morals or manners.

LOSING THE PLOT

The time of complete transparency has reach a dangerously limitless level. Location based apps encourage people to share where they are at. Twitter inspires us to say more than we should or share more than we should admit. And at a time like this, when businesses and brands are jumping on the wagon of this cultural shift, we are having to redefine the sanctity of many things.

What is okay to say?

Should my childrens’ names and pictures be on Flickr?

Who get’s to follow me on Foursquare?

We’ve hit the edge of appropriateness and gone into an unconcious state.

THE MATRIX

Our hands are always on a device, namely a phone. We post pictures of everything we see and do. We’re constantly connected to the web, posting irrelevant and useless content for our own inpulsive need for possession/existence. Our own children, before they are even of age, may even have their own blogs and webshows, broadcast to the world. Have we even considered whether they want that to happen? Do they want documentation of their life available to the rest of the world? You can see why I don’t do that. Can you imagine what they will say one day, when they are grown and they notice a few hundred strangers have been following their life, for the sake of random entertainment?

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