How shame and not oversharing can actually be a good thing

"The basic experience connected to shame," wrote English philosopher Bernard Williams, "is that of being seen, inappropriately, by the wrong people, in the wrong condition." Scrolling on my phone, I find myself thinking it is a good thing that Williams died in 2003 because an hour on any social media platform might have otherwise killed him. To be seen inappropriately (say, simulating sexual intercourse) by the wrong people (for example, the other tourists around you and also the entire internet) in the wrong condition (on a bridge in Venice), has become the goal for increasing numbers of people. Somewhere over…