https://lucindajkinsinger.com/privacy-versus-publicity/ Movement, Color, Sound, Story Sat, 16 May 2020 21:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/privacy-versus-publicity/#comment-110 Tue, 20 May 2014 13:20:00 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=378#comment-110 Good questions. It behooves us to live transparent, holy lives in the first place. Secondly, I think this generation that barely remembers pre-internet days tends to forget how fragile is technology, after-all. Only God is all powerful, everywhere present, and all knowing even though technology would seem to be as well. It isn’t. All it takes is simple storm to give us some much needed perspective. Let’s remember to live real with or without technology. We ought to be able to live contented, productive lives without it. I am not even close to impressed with dumping all of our photos, written documents, and information into online archival systems for “safe-keeping”. Seems pretty short-sighted to me. At least have a hard copy in the file cabinet at home, too, for privacy reasons AND for safe-keeping.
Here is part of a letter I wrote to my sisters and mom yesterday on this very subject: “And now Shilah, about FB. It really isn’t as important to any of us as you are worried that it is. To be honest, I’d love it if we would take the time to create newsy, doodled up snail mail letters complete with stickers and xx’s and oo’s sent and received through your mail service. We have all gotten too lazy and brief in our communications. Electronic communications haven’t improved us; they’ve ruined our ability to HAVE TIME to savor and say things nicely and carefully and beautifully with thoughtfulness. love you amg”

]]> https://lucindajkinsinger.com/privacy-versus-publicity/#comment-108 Tue, 20 May 2014 05:19:59 +0000 https://lucindajkinsinger.com/?p=378#comment-108 I don’t have answers either, Luci. But I will comment here because I like you and this post is very pertinen. I shy away from speaking or writing graphically of physical things that I consider private (i.e. bodily functions), but maybe there are heart things that fit into that category that I’m not as sensitive about. I’ve heard that women have lost their mystery in today’s social media. There may be a healthy side to that, but I know it’s not all pretty either. I feel like I have little to hide and there are few things that I’m afraid to speak about, even with a stranger. And yet….why is there that wall that comes up when someone gets a little too nosy or too close? I think true wisdom doesn’t share everything it knows.

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