How Much is Too Much...When to Draw the Line

More often then not, it seems that these days half my Facebook "friends"know my daily occurrences before I even get a chance to personally share it with them.  Perhaps it's from the pictures of the wedding I attended on the weekend or the most recent wall post from a friend of friend.  Either way, it seems that there is no getting around the evasiveness of Facebook or any social media website for that matter.  Now a days you don't even have to have a person as a friend to know what is going on in their life, simply view another profile using the six degrees of separation and you're almost guaranteed to be successful in your quest to "lurk" an individuals private affairs.

Is it reasonable given how society today has embraced social media for us to expect that most aspects of our personal lives will be shared with others, whether we approve it or not?

Personally, I feel it is not so much a choice, but a matter of acceptance given how technologically dependent society has become.  To put ourselves out there for the world to see goes deeper then wanting to share parts of your life.  One could argue that the success of sites such as Facebook are based on narcissism. We don't post pictures of ourselves or broadcast information about ourselves necessarily because others are interested, we post because we want to portray ourselves the way we other to see us, almost creating a false reality.  Our so called "friends" are not necessarily our friends so why do we feel the need to share personal moments and thoughts with people we barely know?  We should also remind ourselves that as easy as it is to post our lives for the world to see via the Internet, it is not easy to remove it. Once we throw such information into cyberspace we are more or less mercy of other individuals.  To conclude I will leave you with this.  If you choose to put yourself out there you might as well be signing away control over your life to a certain extent.  Be wise in what you publish because you never know who will end up viewing it, whether an employer will use something against you or whether you will have a friend who's out to destroy you.  There is an interpretation for everything.  Sometimes pictures and words cause inaccurate assumptions, there is never one point of view.

Happy Birthday (from my facebook page)