Voyeurism in Italki

Stop publishing your whole personal life here.

Everybody loves to know people's personal misery. Sometimes, I look at which entries get the most thumbs up. Mostly they are entries about people's personal life. Why do you think those real life soaps get so many viewers? There is a sort of voyeurism inside people. They love to see that other people have it worse than them.

My opinion, against the mainstream, probably: I would not expose my whole personal life here, and I always advice others not to do that either. It is public. The whole world can read it. I think you can delete it, here, but I know Google, for example, saves usenet entries for decades. And twenty, thirty years later, people can read what you wrote in a stressed situation. Think about the consequences before putting your whole personal life on line.

Honestly, not sure if it should be online, on-line, or on line. I've seen it all different ways, but I usually use online when I'm talking about the internet. I guess it's personal opinion.