The Fish bowl Effect

So I was reading this article where they were talking about a much-debated topic.  That topic being, Facebook and employers. The article stated, and though I think this is a little hard to believe, but it stated that some employers are even asking for your facebook passwords. Now I’m a little outraged. Yes I get it that what we put on the internet is a direct reflection of our judgment etc but think about this for a while.

If the generations before the internet boom think  back to their childhoods and the silly things that they did with their friends, some wise stuff, some not so wise stuff, they’d realize this current generation is not so different. The only big difference however is that society has evolved. There was no way to capture half of the things that the older generations did in the past but now technology allows us to record every waking moment.  The current generation (what I like to call the Internet generation) are like fish in a glass bowl. Constantly being looked at. I hear people say well the solution is easy, stay away from fb and twitter and cameras etc but what we have to realize that this is all part of life today as we now it. Avoiding such things in this day and age is unnatural. It’s like sending smoke signals when email has been invented. We are encouraging people to hide, and  all parents out there who’ve raised teens  know that being open is 99 percent of the time the best route to follow.

 My point here is that technology has just made it easier for us to communicate. People haven’t really changed that much,  we made questionable decisions back then and we make questionable decisions now, it’s just that we can record it now. Before the technology boom there was no fish bowl. People were allowed to grow, learn, mature. Make their own questionable mistakes, reflect and move on. By prying so much we now deny people the right to be human. We retard personal growth of the individual. People can always pretend to be who you want them to be on Facebook , linkden, twitter and the list goes on. Let’s stop encouraging hypocrisy and think about  this for a moment. We are not allowing people to be themselves. In essence what we are doing is punishing a generation that did not ask for the world to be revolutionized in this way for the effects of new inventions. We all need our personal space. The funny thing is that in this day and age personal spaces have become public venues and that is more the fault of inventors and not society at large.

 How would you like to grow up in a glass house?