How Much Is Too Much When It Comes to Self-Disclosure? A condition called privacy fatigue may lead you to let down your filters.

I know I'm guilty of this, in part because I know how powerful deep learning algorithms are and how much data is already out there on me, and irrevocably so.

Humanity was not prepared for the Information Age, and I feel like it's going to be an evolutionarily selective development

From the Article:

Hanbyul Choi and colleagues (2018), of the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Korea), propose that after years and years of hearing about threats to people’s security of public self-disclosures, it’s easy to experience what they call “privacy fatigue.” Relating more to Internet use than those public displays of personal information in real-life settings, Choi et al. define this phenomenon as “a sense of weariness toward privacy issues, in which individuals believe that there is no effective means of managing their personal information on the Internet” (p. 42). Although people vary in their degree of privacy fatigue, the Korean authors believe that we’re all getting a little sick and tired of having to draw a boundary around personal information for the sake of protection from online or real-life threats by others wishing to do harm.

I personally end up just not using websites where I have to be worried too much about privacy. But there are things like WhatsApp and just using a cell phone that I end up just biting the bullet on because I don't want to feel left out of connecting with other people. Most of my friends have given up on the idea of privacy at this point.