Renewing The Line Between Public And Private
I’ve been thinking about the ever-increasing blurry line between public and private lives now that social media is mainstream. I’ve personally been opening myself up to the world for about a decade; I started blogging by developing my own (very basic) blogging platform before the term “blog” was popular…and I haven’t looked back since then.
There have been a couple of times that I was alarmed by what people are capable of thinking or doing. A few years ago I started getting anonymous comments on various videos of my children, asking me to pose them in certain ways or have them do certain things. Naturally I deleted all traces of the videos online (yes it is possible) and became very aware of what I was posting after that. Although I was always careful to never name them or reveal the location of my children even before this incident, I became very protective after that and have been quite conscious of what I would and would not publish. Over the years I have become more widely known because of my marketing and social media work, and although I’m certainly a small fish in a big pond, I do have a lot of connections with people that I’ve never met face to face.
Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade my social media life. I’ve turned so many of my digital-first relationships into real-life relationships, and I love social media and the way it connects the world. But, and there is always a but…
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