Disclosure cascade — five sentences

Read these five sentences, tell me which one you would or would not post.

My child came back from school today. My son, who's seven, came back from school today. My son, who's seven, came back from St. John's today. My son Timothy, who's seven, came back from St. John's today. And the last one is just a fictitious photo of my son arriving back from school today.

Each one gives you more of the story, but it comes at a cost.

For context, I've gone from pretty much no videos of myself online to posting 16 videos in 16 days on one of the most public platforms. Whilst I made a conscious decision to put myself out here publicly, it doesn't mean that anyone else I talk about necessarily did the same thing. And children are particularly vulnerable because they can't possibly understand what the implications are.

When I make a post, two parties get the information — the audience that I mean to share it with, and the platform that digitally records things and then profits off it forever.

So the question I find myself asking is, what am I trying to get back? And if every content creator understands that this is the trade-off, what is it that they want from you?