Transcript
Hello everyone Welcome to the DailyJim this is monday july 25th, one minute after midnight. So it's not technically monday today I wanted to talk about okay, sharing more on the internet than we wanted to or just how easy it is to share things on the internet. And as I was thinking about the episode, the phrase that came to mind was from an old tv show called Family Matters where the character steve Urkel would say oh goodness, I'm gonna do voices. Did I do that? I can't believe I said that. Anyways, so did I do that? And the play on this is did I share that? So I think sometimes on the internet it can become so easy for us to share information Back in the day if I wanted to share information and I'm talking back in the day, I'm 37 now. So back when I was a kid sharing information, maybe when the internet was first starting, I can send an email or sent it over instant messenger, but that was from a computer only before that I had to call somebody on home phone or I had to send a letter in the mail or I had to go to their house.
That's pretty much it. Unless I had a CB radio or some other fancy technology. There weren't a lot of ways to communicate at a distance telegram maybe um, not the app but the actual telegram back in the day and so there were quite large barriers to sharing information with each other. That had a lot of friction took a lot of time, cost some money, whereas now I can share information. I can communicate with people around the world at pretty much any time, at pretty much negligible cost, um from a phone, so pretty much anywhere I am and.
We have apps such as facebook and twitter and instagram and Tiktok and all sorts of email, all sorts of calling apps, sms, I messaged all these things that in a way try to make it as easy as possible to share information information with each other. And so there's lots that's helping us get better at sharing. And yet there are consequences sometimes to sharing too much now. They could be negative consequences or even positive consequences. There are impacts of sharing information and sometimes we may not realize those impacts in the moment. Sometimes they come later and again, sometimes they may help us or hurt us. And I think there's so much uncertainty that can come with sharing stuff on the internet that I've been contemplating and, maybe to be honest, ruminating about um if I share a text message to somebody about uh a new thing that I'm launching, voila, they may, take a screenshot or forward it and post it to whatever following they have and if they have a big following that could go huge or it could just go to the person, I didn't want to necessarily see that particular message or, they could see it earlier than I wanted to see them and them to see it. So there's this is fundamental, mhm lack of control of the message, which.
Can lead to so much uncertainty. I think I talked about this the other day with scalable uncertainty and I just think one thing I've often worried about is. How much I may open up and share on the internet about me that I may later regret, um, how much I may share about other people that they may later dislike or regret or want me to take back somehow.
Or how much I may even encourage other people to open up more than they want to. And then they feel similar feelings of regret or shame. Who knows what now? They could also feel the positive feelings, but I think my mind goes the other direction of the pain that they might feel and.
Yeah, I just I think the one that often can really get me is thinking about accidentally getting other people to share more than they want to. I've been in so many conversations with people, especially one on one where you get into the conversation and you know 2030 minutes into it or something, they go, wow, I can't believe I've told you so much. I just met you like yeah, I told you a lot too, but I think some people can get in the conversation with me deeper than they necessarily want to and I feel comfortable with that in a way, one on one. Um and I worry how that might play out on a podcast or how they might play out on a linkedin conversation or might play out and, in so many other things where it's so easy for us to just right into the computer and forget the social context with whom we're sharing. Me tweeting at midnight is me just typing into a phone and then they enter like I'm typing a note, but when I enter it could go to lots of people in lots of contexts and be interpreted in so many different ways. So I don't know. So just to reflect a little bit about, the complexity of this drive to share a lot and to open up, you know, the tools, making it so much easier for us to open up in communication online. And you're in communication too many people and the.
Kind of maybe reluctance to open up so much, you know, people use pseudonyms or they try to be anonymous on the internet, but over time it's pretty easy to figure out in some ways who is being anonymous. They can do so many different tricks to kind of unearth somebody's true identity. And so my true identity, legal identity perhaps. And yeah, I don't know. I just I just wanted to talk a little bit about the complexity of it and how it's kind of plaguing me in some ways. And I'm curious is that if other people are struggling with this underlying conflict of wanting to communicate more openly through these platforms, because it's so easy to do so. And then the fear of what actually happens if I communicate more openly about who I am, what I believe, what I feel across all of these different context to all of these different people, and what the the oh the uncertainty and uncontrolled, you know, the lack of control that comes with it, anyways, hope you enjoyed this monday monday Evening uh talk show host episode and I will talk to you tomorrow.
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