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"Anyone who has posted semi-scandalous photos on Facebook, started a blog or poked/winked/spanked someone on a dating site should check out Emily Gould&amp;#x27;s recent New York Times Magazine article about the dangers and thrills of putting yourself out there online. For those of you who aren&amp;#x27;t NYC media junkies, Emily was a blogger for Gawker whose writing ability, physical charms and willingness to reveal the unvarnished details of her life (most scandalously, her fling with a co-worker) made her a minor celebrity in her own right. As a religious Gawker reader, I&amp;#x27;ve been into Emily for awhile now. In fact, my friend Aphrodite and I are jokingly competing to be the first to hook up with our writer crush--me with Emily, and Aphrodite with the novelist Benjamin Kunkel. My affection for Ms. Gould has made it hard following the overwhelmingly negative reaction to her article. Thousands of commenters, both on the Times site and on countless blogs, have taken Emily to task for allegedly playing the victim when she was the one who freely chose to reveal her most intimate secrets for all the world to obsess over. There&amp;#x27;s some truth to that. But I don&amp;#x27;t think Emily is so far removed from those of use who spend a little too much time tweaking our Facebook profiles or perfecting seemingly off-hand group email. Humans have always been compelled to share information about themselves, and the Internet has vastly expanded our capacity to do so. We&amp;#x27;re still feeling out boundaries, but putting the genie back in the bottle isn&amp;#x27;t an option. I really related to something Emily said on her personal blog Heartbreak Soup: &amp;quot;Maybe I just like telling. Part of it, certainly, is that I don&amp;#x27;t want to have these thoughts and feelings inside me. I want to get them out.&amp;quot; I, for one, am glad she did. Have you ever shared too much online? What limits do you set for yourself?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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