What you’re doing at the moment, who you’re with, and where you’re at are usually the things you put up on display on your social media feeds.
I know, we all are into it, giving details of our lives (some intimate) over the internet.
From Life is in the Transitions:
The spread of online culture has meant we increasingly spill our most personal details in front of everyone we know — and many that we don’t.
Sometimes, those snippets we share online could be taken out of context. Here’s an example.
And did you know that the information you search over the internet reveals so much about you?
From Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are:
But it turns out the trails we leave as we seek knowledge on the internet are tremendously revealing.
In other words, people’s search for information is, in itself, information. When and where they search for facts, quotes, jokes, places, persons, things, or help, it turns out, can tell us a lot more about what they really think, really desire, really fear, and really do than anyone might have guessed.
The very act of typing a word or phrase into a compact, rectangular white box leaves a small trace of truth that, when multiplied by millions, eventually reveals profound realities.
And as humans, we’d probably continue building connections online since the rise of the global internet. Then at least, let’s build people up to create a culture that moves us forward.
Here’s what it means to be a human.
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