Yale Daily News

Brian,

I have nothing to hide, I just don't want random strangers finding me and then doing something bad with that information, as in murder or snatching or rape. It's not always because of "party" pics...

Oh, man, I was so hoping this would touch on the dude arrested for defrauding the University. Such a tragic missed opportunity.

It is an odd and naive mythology that the revelations of truth will make life better. For example, re the vodka fifths, think of your parents, then think of them never closing their bedroom door. You have a good idea of what goes on, but your life is better off, all the "loved ones" lives are better off, without too much sharing. The very companies to whom you are applying for jobs will likely have you sign confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements. And did you wear a suit to the interviews or the clothes you wear when you are in your room. As an attorney, I understand that keeping information revealed by a client for the purpose of obtaining legal advice is vital to the legal counseling process. The Facebook account you talk of being set to private likely already include self-censorship -- does your non-private one include everything about you? Part of who we are is the choice of what we choose to make public or private. Your very article is an example of this process -- it starts with a lie saying "[s]ecretly" and then reveals the act to all, except that it keeps the identity of the shows watched other than "today's favorites" a secret, presumably because discussing those shows would waste time An example of keeping secrets in the interest of keeping someone else, the reader here, happy. Thus, "eschew[ing] secrecy" and "be[ing] themselves" are not mutually exclusive.