Restrack Online

Once again the little invisible line is becoming just a blur. It won't be long until that line doesn't exist at all. The world has gone online and the online world has gone offline. People have to realise that ranting and carrying on in a journal is fine and dandy but once you venture into the online world it becomes a public rant and is open to all sorts of attack. Be it in the form of used against you and your family or just a bit of fun at someone's expense. Either way it can be damaging. There are cases of this "notoriety" being a source of peoples "15 minutes of fame" but in more cases it is more like "15 hours of infamy".

[..]Unlike their parents, today's youth have grown up in the age of public disclosure. Keeping an Internet diary has become de rigueur; social lives and private thoughts are laid bare. Some young bloggers expose private details online that their high-profile parents wish they would not.[..]

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