We have somehow signed an unwritten agreement that anything that happens in public is the greater public’s business.

I am, thankfully, not a celebrity. Unfortunately, in the age of social media, what is personal is now public, and simply by breathing the air outside, we have somehow signed an unwritten agreement that anything that happens in public is the greater public’s business.

I hope for the sake of Kelly Keegs, the person who decided to live-tweet a #PlaneBreakup she happened to overhear, that nothing personal of hers ever dares seep into the public realm. After the breakup went viral, Keegs tweeted, “I hope all 7k of my new followers like drunk tweets about wine and Netflix.” Those 15 minutes of fame might be fun for now, but in an age where everything is problematic in addition to everything being the public’s business, Keegs might want to just never tweet again, lest she trigger a feeding frenzy herself.