When I was in high school, I could develop different parts of my personality and different ways of being depending on who I was with at the time. Think about it: there is no way I would have talked the same way at my family's dinner table as I did in the locker room with my basketball teammates. I'm grateful that I had the chance to make social mistakes -- and learn from them -- without everyone in my life seeing them at the same time. I am also glad that some of the things I said and did in high school weren't part of some public record that followed me the rest of my life.
As social media has become more influential, I have wondered how today's generation feels. Years ago I started to suspect that putting so much personal information out there would have negative effects.
Unfortunately, it looks like my worst fears came true. Read more here. (Thanks, BoingBoing!)
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