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Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

#19 Message in a Bottle

Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

Megan Tan

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Look around the Internet and you’ll see people sharing intimate thoughts and bearing their souls — including me. Why do we feel more comfortable publishing the secrets of our lives online — but keep them from the people who are closest to us?

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's that like to like structure and narrate your own life?

0:05.2

Was there any fear about exposing this part of your life to the world?

0:11.2

When I first started making millennial, I didn't expect thousands of strangers to listen to it.

0:16.2

But that's what's happened.

0:18.0

There are tons of people who I don't know listening to intimate moments of my life, and people are constantly asking me how I

0:24.8

feel about this. I am not the type of person to sit across the table from you and

0:31.6

tell you that my parents split up.

0:34.0

I don't get personal with people who I don't know and who aren't in like an immediate circle of friends.

0:42.0

When Ben pitched this idea to me, he actually didn't think I was

0:47.7

going to do it. When I brought up the idea of you making like a podcast about yourself and your experiences.

0:56.0

I just didn't I couldn't imagine you being that open.

1:01.0

Why not?

1:03.0

You know, you kept things hidden and you liked your privacy.

1:09.0

You just wouldn't share things about your life. You didn't seem like you wanted people to know and if

1:16.2

people knew things about your life you're almost sort of like not offended but you're just

1:22.2

like why don't you stay out of my life?

1:25.0

That's true.

1:27.0

I am a private person, if you can believe that.

1:31.0

So why am I sharing, Some may even say over sharing details of my life with

1:36.1

strangers, details that I haven't even told my own sister. I never thought about my transparency online until I met Charlie.

1:47.0

Why isn't this scary for you?

1:50.0

It is scary.

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