I have habit of telling people everything about…

I have habit of telling people everything about myself. It’s awful. I know that hell will break loose if I tell someone everything, or everyone nothing. (Or not, maybe people don’t care about my life)

So to counter this, I tell everyone something different. Of course each fact I tell is true, I can’t lie.

But then what if I do something really, really stupid later in life (or even tomorrow), and then suddenly everyone wants to know every tiny detail about me?

Back in the days before the internet, you would have to talk to everyone and ask them about this person of interest. Now, a list of Facebook friends, a good Facebook stalk and a few loose lips and everything comes out.

Of course I can’t stop people from stalking my Facebook. But I can control my spreading of information. The idea is to try to tell two people who are unlikely to cross paths (e.g. a high school friend and a colleague) two pieces of information that would generate significant conversation if they were known together.

The theory behind ‘decentralizing’ information is that if someone wanted to see the whole picture, it would take a long time to piece together all the information from many sources.

But I don’t know how long that theory will hold.