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At one time, even your place of employment was considered a sanctuary of privacy. But now, ‘Big Brother is watching you’ as  George Orwell wrote in his disturbing book 1984 years before much of this technology was invented.

With all that is taking place today, Orwell looks like an idealistic romantic. I suspect that Orwell never could have imagined the intensity in which our lives have become invaded.Orwell could not have foreseen that companies or individuals would or could read the content of our emails, file transfers, and live chats from the social media we use.

In the final analysis, the world we live in today is not going away. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how talented you are, which skills you have, where you are born, or which family you came from. What will count is how you manage yourself accordingly from here on out.

The great African-American businessman and philanthropist, W. Clement Stone once said: “Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” If you don’t want to be known as a womanizer, then don’t womanize. If you don’t want to be known as a child abuser, then don’t commit child abuse and check yourself accordingly when dealing with your child.

If you don’t want to be known as an abuser of woman, then don’t hit women. If you’ve had too much to drink, take a cab. And if you don’t want your personal business all over the street, then think before make a decision that could come back to haunt you or your integrity in the future, when you’re looking for that all too important opportunity. It’s just that simple.

Zack Burgess is an award-winning journalist, who is the Director/Owner of OFF WOODWARD MEDIA, LLC, where he works as a Writer, Editor and Communications Specialist. Twitter: @zackburgess1

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