Oversharing on Social Media | StarTalk

so what we want to explore here is we’ve
got this digital age so information is
instant people can celebrate in an
instant people can argue in an instant
and these these these elements did not
have a precedent in the world of media
reporting every time there’s a new major
technology we go through what I would
call techno panic but the first
discussion that happens that every time
it does the first serious discussion of
a legal right to privacy in the United
States occurred with the invention of
what technology the Kodak camera because
it freaked people out but suddenly
you’re feeling my soul right and it
could appear in the penny press this was
awful what did we do we figured it out
we got our norms and straight now so now
we all take selfies now we all like our
photos taken we grew up in an era where
there were spies there were secrets and
so you didn’t want anybody not know
anything about you now we have a next
generation of people anyone 20 and
younger under where everybody knows
everything about them think about
pictures at parties you know flashing
each other doing shots and these are
pictures that are now permanently
available on the Internet okay but
what’s wrong about that Neal
at some point I was insecure did you
ever do anything embarrassing as a child
no I know yes but I had the good sense
to make sure that no cameras were things
when we were younger what’s wrong with
this picture of of taking it out on you
when you’re older it means you’re
intolerant I think at some point we
become a more tolerant society we
recognize that everybody has their
foibles and we’ll learn from that but
you know what happens because we create
our own online presence it’s not created
by someone else who took a picture of us
we can paint whatever image of ourselves
we want whether or not it’s accurate so
I brought up that topic with Arianna
Huffington let’s check it out
if you look at the way people use social
media a lot of it is artificial as
someone said there is no human being who
is as happy as an Instagram no human
being who is as upset out
and miserable as on Twitter and nobody
who’s as employable as on LinkedIn there
is a little bit of a manufactured
identity you know it’s always me and the
sunset me and this fabulous meal me
smiling you know but nobody has a life
that’s entirely like well if I see an
awesome-looking platter of food if I’m
taking a picture that also time what I’m
about to eat but there are times when
you have a fabulous meal and there are
times when you may be upset about
something you don’t take a picture of
you being upset