Say Everything

Since the blogs become popular, more people put their personal information on their blogs, such as pictures, albums, diaries, and videos, etc. The attitude to privacy transfers from keeping personal affairs in privacy to expressing ourselves by personal styles. About this transformation, the author claims that since the real privacy become utopian because whatever we do can be tracked, the young generation has changed their attitudes to personal information. They “show off” their personalities via editing blogs to grasp more people’s attention, document their daily lives, and establish the bridge to others.
First, I don’t think people who are willing to express themselves on internet are bold and don’t scruple others’ opinions. Some people would use the blogs as their rostrums to announce their opinions, share their thoughts, and even state some speeches they have no chance to speak up to others in the real life. On the one hand, they can write publicly whatever they want on internet to express their thoughts to their friends or other invisible audience. On the other hand, they are protected by indirectness and anonymousness so that they can avoid face-to-face responds. They don’t have to receive the immediate reactions. They are not shine, but they are not bold and show-off as we thought before.
Second, do people reveal the real life on internet or just make up the life they want to be in? Admittedly, some people won’t hide themselves and are willing to show imperfect pictures on blogs. However, most people will pick up the pretty, dreamlike, and aesthetic pictures to exhibit themselves. The blogs are like the ideal-life exhibitions more than the real-life documents. People select the pictures and the thoughts that they want the public to see in order to shape the images they want the public think about them and correspond to the expectations they give themselves.
As for the connection between users on internet, the blog users might build the connection between themselves via responds and replies the contents. The connection may not be limited to different regions; however, the connection is so fragile. They can express themselves easily, but they can hide the real selves much more easily. The connection won’t be solid if it bases on the unreal foundation. It is possible that when we meet someone we know from internet, and then we find he’s not the person we thought. The connection based on internet is wild but unreliable.
Finally, should people be judged by the information you put on internet? I think the performance on internet is as the same as in the real life. Since we choose this kind of expression and cannot stop others googling us from internet, we have to bear others judge us from that. That’s the way we show who we are and it becomes a part of our lives. We cannot distinguish the two lives so separately. We still have to be responsible for our behavior.