Counterintuitive

As counterintuitive as this might seem, coming from someone who has a blog, I consider myself a very private person. 

Really.

I know I sometimes rant and spread my feelings, but I don't think that what I say compromises my dignity, or would be something that I would be embarrassed if someone I didn't know found - most of my posts are the truth as I see it, though I have been accused of overreacting or overstating facts.  For this, I can only say that I never TRY to rub people the wrong way, and 95% of the time I do usually agree later with what I've written in the past - though perhaps wording or delivery could have been improved to "soften the blow," shall we say.

But I digress.

For some reason, espeically lately, it seems that everyone feels the need to spread EVERYTHING over the interwebs.  I will log on to my Facebook account and be greeted by statuses and photos that give me beyond TMI (too much information).  The things I see and read stray into territory that I would only venture into with my family or partner, and only then when I was sure that no one else was around.  I highly doubt that you could convince someone to stand up on a ladder in a crowded shopping mall filled with hundreds of people and shout or show the things they are posting . . . yet this more or less happens when that stupid status or disgusting photo wanders on to your account.  I have read things that have made me want to gag, cringe, or cry, and have permanently altered the way I see some of my friends, because now I can only think of those posts when I come in contact with them.

This post is on my own personal disgust, but let us not also forget all the horror stories of people losing jobs and relationships for things that have surfaced on their social Internet pages.

What is WITH people?  Why have they suddenly found it appropriate to publish the icky gory intimate details of their lives all over the Internet?  And how can we make it stop?