Note this is legitimate curiosity but I'm wondering what goes on in the heads of those who would give up said privacy vs those that don't.
I mean in regards to stuff such as:
1. Do those who would are generally just open books anyways?
1a. Is it in a "I love sharing myself" sort of way or a "I don't really care" sort of way?
2. Do those who wouldn't have some sort of shame/embrassment about them or their lives?
2a. Or do they just really hate others possessing knowledge of their life?
In guess what I'm trying to get at is more what are at the root peoples reasoning for one o the other?
I mean yes you might be an open book but why are you an open book to begin with?
Yes you might like privacy, but why do you value privacy so much to begin with?
Often times, I'm just more comfortable being an open book. It feels better to just talk about my personal situations openly without having to feel like I need to hide things, because it feels like there's more understanding all around. For example -- and, Gwazi, you in particular may have already noticed this because you're in so many RP's with me -- I used to rarely mention my ADD, especially in regards to not being able to get stuff done, because it felt like I was using it as an excuse for sometimes taking a while to get stuff done, like "yeah no I can't post right now
cuz ADD" -- as if that gave me permission to be lazy, which I wanted to avoid. But, more recently, I've been a lot more open about it, and, honestly, it feels a lot better to know that people understand my situation. Because sometimes it just
is a reason why I can't manage to do things, and it's easier to just be honest about it than to feel like I have to make up some other excuse. It's nice to say "Sorry, I can't focus on making a post tonight, but I'll try to get one done tomorrow" as opposed to sheepishly saying "Yeah I know I need to post, but I can't do it tonight cuz...
reasons..." while I proceed to derp around the often less thought-intensive General Chatting or w/e. Same goes for the medication I take for it and how that affects me (both directly and indirectly) -- which a lot of people would normally consider to be an even
more private piece of information. There've been times when I've been poked to do something and I've just had to say "Sorry, but I really need to take a break from the meds for a day or two, so I probably won't get around to that thing for a couple days, but, I'll do it when I can." It's just more comforting knowing that the other person at least sort of understands my situation instead of me saying "Yeah, I know that there's that thing I have to do, I'll get to it when I can" and then, again, not doing it even though I'm clearly still online, thus making it look like I'm just lazy while I try to tiptoe around my real reason for not doing anything.
Of course, this all still depends on
willingness to share information. Any attempt of someone else to pry into these things if I didn't want them to would of course feel uncomfortable -- just about anyone would agree, I imagine. I already said I wouldn't agree to the hypothetical reality TV show situation because the thought of being watched all the time is a bit off-putting for reasons I can't quite explain, but, thinking about it now, maybe this is the reason why -- there's no way to filter out what I'm willing or unwilling to share if it's all captured in the moment, even if I might still be willing to share quite a bit after the fact.
