Privacy

The more the internet grows & develops the less privacy we seem to have.

Even if you avoid the internet at all cost, someone WILL post a picture of you and there it goes...cover blown. 

Even if you post one picture a month, it will be digested and investigated 

Even if you stop posting for a while, assumptions will be made

Even if you post pictures of flowers and chicken, something will be said. 

The reality is, the internet is here to stay and so is the constant exposure of our lives.  It's grown so much that we have little control of it at this point. Even when you limit yourself.

I myself am (or was) a social media junky. I love sharing selfies, outings, my family, my friends, celebrations. Enough to keep you entertained, not quite enough for you to know what's ACTUALLY happening (yup, even with a personal blog, you'd never really know who or what I'm actually referencing...if you think you do....you're simply assuming hun....) all in all, I love this stuff, always have, since back in the AOL dial tone days...

But as of late, I've noticed people are really doing the MOST for this virtual world.

From posting a reality that isn't real to them, 

From doing everything possible to obtain this status of going "viral" "online fame", people over exposing themselves simply for their 15 minutes... 

From faking it for the 'gram (twitter, snapchat, facebook, tumblr) 

I was okay with it all even fascinated by the way our world was shrinking...

UNTIL the last few weeks/months... It's almost as if something clicked... I started noticing and realizing that invisible followers do exist... either because you forget they follow you, or simply because they actually don't but a find a way to. The feeling was a bit...creepy. 
That people are watching... watching closely. It's creepy mostly because not everyone has the best intentions for you at heart, mostly because people don't always watch to simply watch you like a reality show, but more so to observe and silently not celebrate with you.

I'm a believer of energy, be it from a distance, or real up close & personal. The internet is making people come too close and not always with the best vibes... What started with the intention to bring us closer together, seems to be putting us worlds apart...

That privacy has always been a relative concept... But it's now becoming close to non-existent... as much as you try otherwise...

xoxo
Signs the girl trying to put down the blinds to my window...