Parents and adults used to cringe at the thought of their children having MySpace and Facebook accounts.

People used to fear putting out too much information about themselves on the Internet for anyone at any time to access at their own leisure.

Today, people use many different means of social media to connect and share with the world around them.

From what they are doing to what they are wearing, people are tweeting, updating statuses and over-editing photos of themselves to post intimate aspects of their lives.

As if that weren’t enough, Twitter is making life sharing even easier for users through the means of a new app called Vine.

Vine is a 6-second video app owned by Twitter. The idea of the app is for users to create “quick, easy and interesting” short films to share with thier friends, according to Pocket-Link.

Videos consist of some useful, relevant information such as weather updates, document signings and new information.

But, some incredibly non-useful and irrelevant information, such as rapping the latest Lil Wayne song, waking up in the morning and shaving legs was also found.

The app has proved to be a useful source for finding information, but more so has proved to be just another form of senseless “guess what I’m doing” tactics.

It’s funny to think that in less than 10 years the feelings toward social media has changed so drastically.

But are these new feelings justified?

The argument that used to be pro-Facebook was that it was a way to connect and share with people whom you already know and interact with.

Today, anyone can follow anyone with the click of a button and know briefly your life story if that’s how you chose to express yourself on social media.

With Vine, these people can now watch videos of your day-to-day life.

Is it possible that technology is advancing too quickly for our generation?

Would our ancestors be excited for these advances or look down upon our lack of privacy on the Internet?