Transparent Humans?

Here's an excerpt from an article I read today. I thought it was pretty interesting to see how different communication is today. This transparency is what is linking people together. In other means of conversation you reserve your transparency for those closest to you...now it is there for everyone to read. The human race just got a little more...human

The old paradigm in communication was that people generally revealed very little of their fears and doubts. They tried to present the image of themselves to other people as completely confident and knowledgeable. The goal was to make sure that you appeared like you were always in complete control. But this is shifting, in part, because of social media. The paradigm is now no longer to try to appear perfect, but to be more transparent with your thoughts and feelings, to reveal your humanness.

We now have queens acknowledging that they get nervous at times when speaking, CEOs being more honest and at times using blogs to express reservations over past decisions, and people openly sharing personal views on social issues. Of course, what we decide to reveal and when to reveal it can be delicate, and there will always likely be items we wish to keep private. However, rather than working to hide our thoughts and feelings, social media is helping to create greater personal transparency.

Is this good or bad? Is this the downfall of human kind? Just like rock and roll was 50 or so years ago?

Full article: http://mashable.com/2009/10/16/social-media-changing-lives/
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