Our lives exposed online

I am born in the generation where people don't know what lives were without colour TV, a computer in every home and internet. Some of us might remember when you couldn't be on the phone at the same time as you were online but to be honest, the only reason why I know about it is because my older siblings have told me about it. This has created a society for my generation where we communicate with people all around the world and often with people we don't even know. I know many of us like to think that we are friends with everyone on facebook but quite frankly, we don't. There are a lot of people we haven't talked to since primary school or people we just have on facebook because we enjoy stalking them.

This creates a problem we often don't think about, what we put online is not just for us and our friends. It is for everyone we have on facebook and often other people. We also easily forget how the things we put online can be saved and spread by others and soon a funny picture of us from a party or a private message to someone can quickly become viral and what you thought was your private life soon becames everyones business.
What we do online can change our lives. When we apply for jobs our social media accounts will be checked and if there are things on our accounts that the company doesn't agree with our internet behaviour will make us lose the chance. Even though you might think that is them invading on our privacy it is the closest to getting to know the real us as they can come. But then the question is raised, does our facebook profile actually represent me? 

If I look at my own profile I can't say I like all the pages I like on facebook. Some are just me being nice to a friend and it might even look like I have a baby since my coverphoto is of me and my nephew. It does not give the right picture of me so why do people judge me from my profile? Shouldn't they ignore what I put online? Everyone knows that people pretend to be something else online. I think the problem is that we only show one part of us on facebook, the part we think is the cool and fun side, or maybe event he side we think can get us the most attention. We don't realise that not all attention is good attention.
I'm not trying to say internet is a bad thing but to be honest, I think I would be happpier without it. I wouldn't have to feel that I need to post a picture on instagram of my food or tweet what the weather is like today or even check in on Facebook so everyone can know where I am. I would have a life where people that are my actual friends would know where I was, my stomach was the only one who had to see my food and I could let the weather speak for itself. Without internet, people would actually know me and not everything that people expose online. I could have my privacy to the extent I wanted and people would have to trust the image I'm giving face to face instead behind a screen.