Worse

Depends on who I'm with.

It'd be more honest at least. I'll give it a plus.

Far, far worse. What goes on in the privacy of my mind should never be let loose upon the world.

Christ in a sidecar, it would be sooooo much worse. Society operates on the basis of necessary lies - small ones, big ones, casual ones, those freighted with intent. All of that would go out the window if we actually knew what other people were thinking. To quote Bill Murray from Ghostbusters - cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.

Better. We'd realize how similar we really are, the extent to which we struggle with the same problems. Stereotyping and bigotry would be completely rescripted, overnight.

Better if people were honest.

Worse at first and then better, if we didn't all kill each other before then.

Don't know if it would make the world better or worse, but it should by my choice to share my thoughts or not

I believe a lot more people would be dead, and quickly.

Initially, freaking Horrible! A few weeks later, much better all the way around.

If Facebook , with it's regular TMI personal posts being any indication , it would be far worse.

Oh but we can read the thoughts of man. If you've read any sort of science fiction, it's likely you've heard about subvocalization, the practice of silently saying words in your head. It's common when we read (though it does slow you down), but it's only recently begun to be used as a way to interact with our computers and mobile devices. To that end, MIT researchers have created a device you wear on your face that can measure neuromuscular signals that get triggered when you subvocalize. Again I refer to the technique applied by Stephen Hawkins.
The idea that internal verbalizations have physical correlates has been around since the 19th century, and it was seriously investigated in the 1950s. One of the goals of the speed-reading movement of the 1960s was to eliminate internal verbalization, or “subvocalization,” as it’s known. But subvocalization as a computer interface is largely unexplored.”

While the white gadget now looks like some weird medical device strapped to your face, it's easy to see future applications getting smaller and less obvious, as well as useful with our mobile lives (including Hey Siri and OK Google situations). The MIT system has electrodes that pick up the signals when you verbalize internally as well as bone-conduction headphones, which use vibrations delivered to the bones of your inner ear without obstructing your ear canal. The signals are sent to a computer that uses neural networks to distinguish words. So far, the system has been used to do fun things like, asking for the time and reporting your opponent's moves in chess in utter silence.

No chance

It would be worse.

I get the feeling it would be worse, and could conceivably inspire more acts of violence in the process. Additionally, I think there would be far more crying taking place as well.

I don't know if it would be better or worse but I'd probably get my face slapped a lot !!!

Much worse. I'd probably get in a fistfight with someone every day.

I'd be slapped across my face every time I'd be passing by the pretty girl lol. Totally a better place?

Usually, people think of this question in an “unrestrained telepathy” model. I’d like to think that subtler shades of cognitive sharing needn’t be excluded. What if you could share specific experience and conceptions at your discretion? I think it would be useful to “see through another’s eyes” if one had the faculty to “restrict” the extent of sharing.

Nope. My thoughts are a run of scathing commentary & 4 to 12 letter profanities. I'm pretty sure that I could not stop myself from thinking my son's girlfriend is a selfish, entitled, overly spoiled little cunt when she's yammering on about trivial bullshit. If she could read my mind, i'm sure she'd have an apoplectic, hissy fit.

Yeah, not a good idea. I have enough trouble controling my expressions as is.

It’d be a disaster.

Tough call.
Probably more bad than good.

The Belcerebons used to cause great resentment amongst neighbouring races by being one of the most enlightened, accomplished and, above all, quiet civilisations in the Galaxy. As a punishment for this behaviour, which was held to be offensively self-righteous and provocative, a Galactic tribunal inflicted on them that most cruel of all social diseases: telepathy.

Much worse: there are barriers to protect us because the majority would not be able to handle it- instead of instant empathy, I would bet on hostility and other not so healthy coping mechanisms. Dilly dilly!