An idea just popped into my head, as these things do.
We all know the world is getting smaller, and that privacy is undergoing some very interesting changes. Facebook, Youtube, twitter, silly reality shows that follow people around 24/7, everyone has a cellphone nowadays. And sure, many quip about how socializing over a screen is not the same as face to face, and that might be true, but socializing with someone over a screen is better than not socializing at all.
Clearly, people are more connected to each other at present than at any point in history.
Let's say peoples' private lives do become progressively more public. Initially, you'll see people losing jobs over embarrassing stuff that winds up on Facebook (as is already happening). But, since the amount of stupid stuff people do is fairly constant, and the amount of privacy is decreasing continually, eventually employers will have to become more tolerant or just desensitized to this, else the workforce will get dramatically thinner. Now, I'm the last person to condone stupid behavior - I hate stupid people, but beyond just being an arse, there is a whole range of quirky, odd, strange, playful, embarrassing, and emotional things that are woven into the fabric of being human.
What you are seeing is more exposure to these different perspectives, and I think people will develop a broader grasp of, "Hey, even though we're different in so many ways, we're really not all that different."
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