Google Glass: the private parent's headache This attitude sat easily in one part of my mind, but lately it's been rubbing up against another and they don't sit well together. For the last three years I've been assiduously avoiding publishing pictures of the most important part of my life: my family. If you know me personally in real - which is to say, physical - life then you will probably have seen pictures of my children. We might even be friends on Facebook, which I keep separate from my more public profiles, and there are tagged pictures there. Otherwise I hope you won't have seen them at all, which is a great loss to you as they're adorable. That child in the photograph above? I have no idea who she is. I'm so far away from the focus of that eye I barely count as being visible at all, but still you're reading this and I don't know who you are. There are pictures of me on the internet taken by people I don't know. I can only assume they have quite a lot of free time. I don't want my children's lives to be similarly public, no matter how minuscule the degree of publicness might be. Stewart Lee, the comedian, is a famous man. He's on television, but understandably wishes to maintain a private life. On a podcast in 2010 he told his fellow comedian Robin Ince: "I looked on Twitter for the first time about two weeks ago, having suspected what it might be like. I did it at the behest of people I'm working with who told me that it's really great for transmitting information and you get real news on it that isn't covered and those things appear to be true, but what was also true was that over a five-day period my whereabouts on a ninety-minute basis were basically updated, to the point where I felt quite freaked out by it. Even when I was in a cafe in Hampstead with my son, two different people were talking about the things he was up to, what Stewart Lee's son was up to on Twitter. He's a three-year-old boy. Then someone had sat behind us on a train to Brighton, behind me and my wife, twittering about what we were like. The thing with a journalist is that you can say something's off the record, and also the press don't print photos of your kids. But because Twitter is the public, the pros and cons of it are finely balanced but I wouldn't want to enter into it. This is not an issue of the privacy of famous people being invaded. We all have public profiles now, cobbled together from fragments on different platforms. A bit of Twitter here, LinkedIn there, Facebook sitting on top like a giant poisonous toad. If we were all the radically isolated social units that the technology companies treat us as there wouldn't be a problem, but we're not. We have connections, and we don't wish to share all of those connections with all of the others. Google Glass doesn't bring anything new to the problem. People take photographs in public places and, whatever we or Stewart Lee choose to do they will continue to take them whether we enter into it or not. If I had the answer I would be on a plane to San Francisco right now, mentally spending the billions I'd make from my new network, but I'm still here in the Telegraph's office writing this and not uploading pictures of my children. If you have any ideas, let me know.