Full Disclosure
Reading about social media, the warnings are there. Privacy died with your first posting on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.
To be frank, the fact that my status update from today will be dissected 20 years from now does not keep me from participating. Should I?
Now more than ever, our value in social media is dependent on our contribution and the ability to connect. Privacy has become an outdated notion.
Where attention is coveted, privacy is a luxury no one can afford. We have a choice, participate or become invisible and have no part in the discussion.
If faced with this choice, many of us will choose full disclosure. I have. It can be a little overwhelming to imagine that twenty and thirty years from now, individuals will be able to find the drunken pictures and puzzling affiliations of our youth. But I take comfort in the fact that not only do I have an embarassing past but so will everyone else.