This piece is for those who often feel overly mature and always wanting to keep their private lives off socials.

Sometimes when I listen to these sets of people talk or read their write-ups on socials I would just laugh at their ignorance.

My reason for this is, many of them forget that we now live in an era where our privacy/private lives have been invaded by constant advancement in technologies.

The only time anyone can truly boast or take full charge of his or her private life in this era of advanced technology is when such an individual decides to completely disconnect from GSM/2G/3G/4G or even 5G broadband connectivity, throw away the SIM card and shut his or herself away from the whole world.

In other words, such a person must be ready to stay off any digital device or anything related to a technological device, stay indoors without coming in contact with anyone.

He or she should not go to the shopping mall, banks, church or even take his or her kids to school, then such a person can now say his or her private life is fully protected. And who can possibly do that? No one! Even prisoners have no private lives.

So let me fully burst your bubble, there is no longer privacy anywhere, any more, except if we want to go back to medieval times. Yes, that’s the price we have to pay for advancement in technology such as internet of things and Artificial intelligence that can detect as far as your emotional state or well being, your past experiences and and even tells you the color of your underwear, crazy isn’t it?

Therefore, when I see funny comments like ‘my private life is my pride’, “I value my privacy’ etc and yet you make calls everyday? you come online to visit, for instance, Facebook and Instagram to view other people’s supposed private lives, that you yourself are too selfish to share with others online and make jokes, laugh, gossip and even create content from them??

Many amongst these “I value my privacy” group still won’t hesitate to fill out forms online for career opportunities and visit websites to submit their bio-data for proper documentation for better employment opportunities yet have the nerve to brag about having some sort of privacy. To me, it is all delusional to profess any sort of privacy in this era.

It is delusional because those little detail biodata and profile on socials are all what?? No, I would love to know what they are? Aren’t they part of your private lives??

As simple as your phone number is, it could be used to trace you. Your Google account can be used to track you down, even your social accounts can be used to monitor your activities in that supposed corner of yours called private life.

The reason many of these people take this privacy stuff too extra is because they feel only their marriages, children or bedroom/private apartment activities should be considered private life. Forgetting that those bio-data are even more important than those your bedroom activities.

Once as a total stranger lays hold of your bio-data everything about you is invaded already.

The reason I put this piece together, is because many people are yet to grasp the power of cybersecurity or simply put what cybersecurity is all about. We often assume it is only for those who work in that field alone hence we care less about the danger inherent in minuest information we put out on that tiniest digital device.

Cybersecurity is critical in this age and everyone must be conscious of that however, we mustn’t be too naive to assume not posting your pictures and videos of marriages or partners or others things you do behind closed doors alone are the best ways to safeguard your private life.

Like a digital expert friend often says, “the only data that are safe in this era are those ones in our heads that we haven’t typed into any tech device” And I completely agree with him.

So I repeat and I will say it again and again “I cherish my privacy” is a delusional statement in this digital age, know this and know your peace.

And remember to always lead a decent life so you won’t have to worry about who is spying on you, or wants to know more about your private life.