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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.In the former situation, the disclosure to others is not voluntary, in the latter it is. That is the difference. The former is not seeking attention from others, the latter is...
TomMcGiverin
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Ryo1:
And why is that, re: the latter?
@Ryo1 In the social media situation, the person chooses to broadcast all their thoughts to the public, unlike the writer of the diary..
Ryo1:
@TomMcGiverin Yeah, so why choose to broadcast all their thoughts to the public?
@Ryo1 I don't pretend to know, I'm not a shrink. But I know I choose to be very selective and only broadcast my thoughts on social media much more rarely than most people. I only share them here frequently because I know this site is a fairly small audience, of people who mostly share my views, and that none of them live anywhere near my area, so it's a pretty safe outlet for my thoughts. Nobody that I personally know or that lives in my are is every going to hear my thoughts from someone else on this site, so it's almost like writing in a diary...
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