How Important Is Your Privacy?

Do you want to know a secret? No one cares if you just went out for a pizza or saw a television show that is completely uninteresting to almost anyone else. No one cares that you made friends with someone on Face-book and it rarely matters that you liked someone else's mundane notice. But for whatever reason, your messages are going out to hundreds of people who don't care. Those are innocent little comments that people for whatever reason want to share with people on Face-book or Twitter or somewhere else, but you have to remember that every time you post something hundreds and maybe thousands of people have access to your ramblings. There are certain things that are meant to remain private and you lose all sense of privacy when you ramble over the Internet.

There is no such thing as privacy and as people grow up with no limits set, they get more and more comfortable with sharing these things and every little thing that is going on in their lives. And it's not even like all the things people like to share on the social network sites is very intimate or revealing or even that compelling. They are usually just mundane, everyday things that nobody should care about or even would care about under any other circumstance.

All you have to do is click on a website off of your cell phone and find out just about anything you want about just about anybody you want. It's a reason that there are fewer and fewer interpersonal relationships today. People walk blindly around the mall just staring vacantly into their cell phone. It is a big part of the reason that kids today have very little communication skills that do not involve a cell phone.

It also seems like with all the cell phones and instant messaging and texting that we are never really alone. Everybody needs to have a little time to disconnect and to be alone with their thoughts and ideas. It's almost like you always have to be engaged and if you are not connected to something or someone, then you are by yourself and that can be uncomfortable for some people. Like anything else, it is about doing things in moderation.

Keeping in touch in the new digital world is fine, but don't forget you can always leave the house and meet in the park and have a real conversation over a nice picnic or go for a nice walk and reconnect that way. It doesn't always have to be your thumbs doing the talking for your brain. Connecting can still be done the old fashioned way, with actually meeting somebody somewhere and talking face to face.