A few years ago if someone asked you to post a photo of you online your first reaction would probably be to refuse. But now something is different. Now we have social networks. Not only we are posting photos online, tagging ourselves so it would be easier for someone to search for us, but we are posting online and other more important or more personal information about us or our friends.

Strange, is it? If you are in Facebook and you have a lot of female friends maybe you have already noticed that some of them have the color of their bra for status. No one is sure how this new trend started. But everyone knows that its purpose is to promote breast cancer awareness. Some say that it started from a group of women in Detroit, other in Chicago but really who started this is irrelevant. What it is more important is that it spread rapidly through Facebook making its way to the headlines of the biggest news sites. And another internet thing is that a lot of women now are comfortable enough to share the color of their bra on Facebook. Let’s compare this with the offline world, think about it.

Social networks have changed the way we see and interact with our friends. There is a sense of security when we sit in front of our computer and start broadcasting information about us and our friends in Social Networks. No one is forcing anyone to post something like the color of his/her underwear. We do it with our free will. This is the power of social networks. People are free!