A good analysis to find out why some people don't publish their photos online

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I've been on social media for many years. I opened my Twitter account in January 2008 and I have channels on almost all of them, which I use mainly to spread the word about this blog, but for little else. Nowadays, I'm one of those "weirdos" who don't post their own photos online and who post very little on social media (in my case, because I think it's better to post less and think carefully about what I'm going to post).

A few days ago, two YouTube channels, BeyondAmbition and SimpleMindMap, jointly published a video that takes a psychological look at people like me. The video is titled "Psychology of People Who Don't Post Their Photos on Social Media" and I confess that before watching it I thought I was going to see something very different:

Broadly speaking, I identify with what this video says. I have worked professionally on social media and I know them quite well, including their dangers. Years ago, during a talk I was asked to give at a school about internet use and risks, I remembered a wise message I read on the National Police Twitter account in 2013, written by Mar Monsoriu, a journalist and writer specializing in technology: "Publish online those photos that you wouldn't mind seeing on a poster posted on every lamppost where you live." In my talk, I made a nuance: a photo posted on social media can be seen anywhere in the world, not just in your city. Think about it.

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Photo: Vitaly Mazur.