Confessing secrets to strangers online
If someone you didn't know sat beside you on the bus and began divulging their family secrets and sexual fantasies, you'd probably slip on some headphones, discreetly search for another seat, and maybe scrunch your eyes closed in the childish hope they'd have vanished when you looked again. We don't normally crack open the inside of our minds for the delectation of strangers. How weird, then, that these restraints are suspended by so many of us online.
Paul Venezia has a really interesting piece on the subject on tech site InfoWorld. His comment is interesting and pertinent here: "A world of people out there … don't comprehend how deeply their internet usage is tracked and the level of detail they make available on a constant basis … and somehow, most of them don't care."
