” …our ongoing quest for identity—or as some prefer to call it, “personal brand”—that’s propelling this disintegration.

We want to be interesting. We want to be memorable. We want people to follow us, but we need their attention first.

And if there’s one thing reality TV and advertising has taught us, it’s that the lowest common denominator is both the easiest and most efficient way of getting people to notice.”

Mnnnn. Is this one of the reasons so many of us take our cameras into the bedroom?

Read more:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/19/oversharing_on_facebook_researchers_weigh_in.html

Amanda x