Nigeria, Oct. 20 -- I often wonder why we prefer to step outside in our finest clothes, even though comfort awaits us in the unkempt ease of our homes. Why do we take pictures only when the light flatters us, deleting those that show our real, unfiltered faces? Why do we hide our bodies beneath fabric, our secrets behind smiles, our pains behind screens? What strange instinct teaches us to protect our nakedness: physical, emotional, moral from strangers, yet allows us to expose it to millions of unseen eyes on social media?

These questions haunted me as I watched the unfolding saga of Nollywood actress Regina Daniels and her husband, Senator Ned Nwoko, a drama not just of love and pain, but of the new media age and its distortion of inti...