Facebook ain’t Your Buddy, it’s a Sly Pickpocket of Your Secrets!…by Robert M. Katzman
Facebook Ain’t Your Buddy, it’s a Sly Pickpocket of Your Secrets!
by Robert M. Katzman March 21, 2018
Having had a little time to think about this intellectual hurricane of fury about Facebook and betrayal in the quiet black fields of Wisconsin where nothing has sprouted yet, but the promise of innocent plants seeking the sun remains,
I think the lesson persists that there are only just so many people a person can trust, only just so much truth a person can offer to another who will keep it close to their vest.
That a secret whispered to a compatriot about a certain political or ethical perspective can morph into a very different thing when it might be read by millions and its delicate reasoning with all its faults turns the writer into a screaming tsunami of irrationality, of scheming, of everything it was never intended to be, because nothing remains the same when it is magnified from conjecture to a roar across the world.
What am I saying?
Be very careful who you trust, and think about the consequences of musing on the internet, as if you were leaning over a split rail fence on a farm, laundry blowing on the clothesline behind you, thinking its just you and your crusty neighbor, a guy maybe flawed, but a guy you really know, a guy you trust who knows how to keep his mouth shut.
Facebook, the internet, and all those other illusions ain’t that.
Like my worn and wary Dad warned me in 1959: Listen, Son, don’t spill your guts to just anyone.
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