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The End of the Private Life  
Aired: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11-12PM ET

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By host Tom Ashbrook:

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is not worth living. For a new generation of Americans and more, the unexposed life is not worth living. Digital diaries, online posts, life loggers and bloggers and Facebook and bed cams are increasingly making the very idea of a "private life" sound antique, retro, pointless.

Today, millions of people are pouring out their deepest intimacies, digitally, for perfect strangers. Ten years from now, says one, we will all have seen each other in our underwear. And maybe sooner.

This hour On Point: when all our kimonos are open - the end of the private life.

Guests
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·Carlin Flora, she's the Associate Editor at Psychology Today.
· Irina Kendall, lifelogger and chef
· Gordon Bell, principal researcher at Microsoft and creator of "MyLifeBits" blog
· Sherry Turkle, "cybershrink" and Professor of Sociology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



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Arrow "The Decline and Fall of the Private Self" by Carlin Flora (Psychology Today)
Arrow Spectacularly Normal - The Blog of Irina Kendall
Arrow MyLifeBits Project
Arrow Sherry Turkle's Website
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