A life online

Friend request from Bradley Jones. Accept? Yes. Before he even has the chance to introduce himself you already know he’s a huge Chelsea fan, has three sisters and you both have 33 friends in common. Oh, and don’t forget you don’t like the way he looks. You can tell from his pictures on holiday in Portugal.
The internet has officially taken away all the mystery of who you are. Your youtube videos as a hormonal teenager, your Facebook likes and dislikes, as well as your blog entries have told the world all about you, no questions asked.

Documenting your life on the net is the latest social frenzy. But maybe there’s too much of everyone’s personal information out there? If you ask me we all need a little more mystique, otherwise we how do we get the excitement of getting to know somebody new.

As parents upload videos of their children straight on to the internet, they set them up for a life online. In a few years they will be hounded by constant tagging of pictures from nights out that they’d rather forget. Their chance of landing that dream job hindered as the boss types their name into Facebook and sees the damage.

No-one would argue that most parents want the best for their children, but are cute video’s of them bopping up and down for all to see really necessary? Let’s look at baby Corey, dancing away to Beyonce, who despite the fact he can’t actually walk, already has a Twitter account – CRAZY!

The internet doesn’t have a delete button, things can float around in cyberspace for years, ask Corey when he’s 21. So maybe we should keep that in mind the next time we’re uploading our latest exploit.

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