It just seems like a national pastime to post as little information about yourself or anything you&#x27;re associated with anywhere online at all. As an expat that it makes it hard to stay in contact with many people.<p>It&#x27;s everybody&#x27;s right to do whatever they want with their personal information, but in Germany it often gets to a point where you&#x27;re being judged if you yourself decide to post something on a social network site.<p>It also leads to all kind of weird regulations from the government (again, see Street View as an example or the more recent EU-wide regulation of a minimum age of 16 to open social network accounts).