The only sort of drawback is that I can’t cuss, purely or literally let my hair down in a certain way anymore privately, … because everything I do has to reflect the public image that I need to keep up. That’s the irony of openness, because it’s not so open, right? It’s a manufactured openness in that way, that it’s always filtered. It’s kind of like open source; anybody can take the code and mess around with it but there’s a very structured way of doing it. And you check in and you check out and you sign your name to it. And you have to go through certain meritocratic levels to work on the kernel. It’s not like people can just take the code and just fly with it and open living is the same way. It’s ironic because it’s ultimately less open, in a lot of ways, personally, that's my experience.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 632