I can’t think of what I would be busted for, but I suppose you never know….

If you have any degree of influence, no matter how minor, your private life become public domain. So it is that what makes the most sense these days, in my humble opinion, is busting yourself. You take the fun out of it for the media and most other people who would be nosy parkers. You take a five days story and make it two days.

For example, look at Barack Obama. He wrote a rather revealing, raw personal memoir at the age of 33. His drug use in his teens and early twenties has been a total yawn. No one can call gotcha on him because his youthful indiscretions have been common knowledge for fifteen years.

In truth, we are all voyeurs in this society, praying that the camera or the prying eyes of the interested never turn upon us. Many of us lust for fame or fortune, but with both comes a lack of privacy and the glare of the camera.

So one can toil in obscurity and preserve some degree of privacy, but a simple google search can reveal a wealth of knowledge about anyone. And as our search engines become more advanced and more efficient, our sense of privacy will suffer in the process.