The end of the private Life !

Of all the revolution underway since the coming of the digital age and internet one of the most profound may be the revolution and transparency in private life. Today millions of people share their deepest feeling, their most embarrassing moments and every detail of their daily routine with any body, everybody on the earth who wants to the take time to read or watch.Good or bad or indifferent, this is different. This is the end of the private life as the new generation puts itself lock stock and barrel online. If you are a blogger or an online diarist, if you share your life most of it or bit of it ,you can easily imagine what I am trying to say. It seems like now private life has become old fashion.

Computer is pushed so much into our lives these days that we want to archive every bit of our life in to the hard drive. This can have major decline and fall effect on our private selves. This is an explosion in our private lives. Vast majority of the blog is of personal nature. Earlier what used to be locked away in the diary under the bed is now online for every one to read. What effect this will have on the psychic to expose your self or share your private life online. These private life stories become fodder for many people.

There is a huge range of these kinds of stories. Some people do this synonymously, some mix their opinions on public affairs with their personal revelation, some want to share every thing in their life who think that this is therapeutic for them or that could help others. People talk about the deads in their family, their insecurities, about their ambitions, romance and breakup.

It is good that our society is more open, people are less judgmental .Some what it is good that people don’t have as much shame about certain events and they are willing to open up and share but with the internet the change is tricky .Because when you are sitting near the computer late at night there is a sort of dis-inhibition effect and perhaps you don’t realize how much you are sharing .There is not another person there giving you the feedback or giving you the facial expressions that is so programmed to respond to. And this way you are just lost in your own head and you are revealing perhaps a little too much .In addition to that you are also not getting the direct feedback to help you process what you are going through .This then becomes like a strange theater where you are putting dramatic spin on your own life .

The social and psychological implications of this new change of transparency of our own lives are huge. Ironically, these days we have more privacy then we ever had in our lives . We do not live in houses where every one lives in one room, we can do more things without people knowing about them. The feature of emailing gives us more privacy to write any thing to anyone without anyone knowing about it. Therefore, there are more contradictory things going on .The sad part is what and how is this affecting your psychic.

The main danger is that you feel that you are processing some thing, which is helping you but may be you would be better served by having more of a one on one conversation and keeping some things to your own self. It is hard to say what is the loss of this though, because many people do get helped by these blogs when they read the similar experiences in the blogs. People get motivated by the similar kind of experience what they read in the blogs.

Some people blog about every thing with a very good reason and goal. They do that to record every thing happened in their lives, to retain every thing and most importantly, to retrieve every thing .It is a kind of surrogate memory, kind of virtual archival of self. For those people their whole life becomes a kind of home movie and they can turn back at any time and enjoy any time they want.

Will this change what we are? What is the biggest downside of all doing all these? Wouldn’t this exposure of our selves create problems in future?