My dad's Stasi files stated that he read a certain church related newspaper in public. There also were photographs of me at a very young age in the files. I guess they found them when they were routinely opened up personal letters.

I'm pretty sure NSA can access the same information about what I read and how my child looks like and I'm really worried about that. And when I post something NSA related on Twitter and the next moment my web browser crashes, I really feel the mental stress you're talking about.

Stasi was different though, because their IMs would be your best friends and neighbors. Our weakness is the technology we use to talk to each other.