TMI = Too Much Information

Posted by Romeo Manzanilla on Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 at 1:44pm.

As an Austin Realtor, I use technology everyday to stay in contact with my clients as well as to provide online home search tools as well as monthly real estate updates. But as our world evolves and technology plays an ever increasing role in our lives, sometimes you have to stop to ask yourself, is technology really helping or hurting me? With the majority of all cell phones now being produced and sold as “smart phones”, we literally have the world at our fingertips. You can literally do just about anything from the comfort of your car, in an elevator or even while watching a movie. I can’t tell you how many movies I’ve watched at the theatre with the annoying glow of some teenager’s cell phone while he or she is texting, tweeting or updating their online status. Also, with so much information at one’s disposal, the line between privacy and public starts to fade. Several sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have built-in privacy functions that are cumbersome and sometimes difficult to set leaving all of your private information open to anyone who wants to see it. Without thinking, people will update their status while they are on vacation or that they just made a huge purchase, leaving themselves open to professional thieves to break into their homes while they are away. Then there are those that are addicted to posting every single facet of their lives online. What they intend on eating, what they ate yesterday, the weather, the traffic report, what they were dreaming and so on. I usually end up tuning those people out quickly so as to not to get sucked into their drama or their cry for attention. The point that I am trying to make is that like all things, there is a right and a wrong way to do things. I’m not saying that my way is right, but I can tell you that no one wants to know what you had for breakfast this morning unless it’s your mother, your spouse or your doctor :)

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Romeo Manzanilla

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