Would you rather... Have paparazzi follow you around or Reveal a different secret about yourself in a weekly newspaper column

Would you rather...

Have paparazzi follow you around

Reveal a different secret about yourself in a weekly newspaper column

This are seasoned paparazzi. There's not much of a chance of evading them. Published secrets would be more than just "I enjoy fishing."

Secret Hunting

Oct 4, 2009

Have paparazzi follow you around

You can neutralize paparazzi by behaving in ways that make their coverage unusable, irrelevant, or too embarrassing to publish
No personal secrets are forced out; photographers can only capture what you allow them to see
Photographers following a boring or aggressively uncooperative subject tend to give up and move on fairly quickly

Reveal a different secret about yourself in a weekly newspaper column

Confessing a secret weekly can be genuinely therapeutic; the act of regular disclosure relieves the accumulated burden of keeping things hidden
Most people's secrets are minor enough that a weekly column of small admissions would run dry quickly without serious damage
A newspaper column is a controlled, self-authored disclosure; constant paparazzi surveillance is invasive, uncontrolled, and never-ending