How much can you say on a personal blog, without leaving yourself open to unwarranted intrusion?
I've taken all the kids pictures from my Facebook site, and asked that the yearly school calendar not include their names, but does that protect them?
If I blog about issues and a potential employer/headhunter reads it, does it sway their opinion unjustly since it is really private (but foolishly in the public domain)?
There are so many social networking sites now, from those masquerading as Jobs Boards like LinkedIn to the niche-specific ones like Matador (Travel) or Last.fm (Music) plus the area-specific sites like YoPoCo or CostaBlancaConnect - and our lives are on display here like never before.
Where is it leading? Personal advertising boards outside our houses? We already have ad's on our cars, our T-shirts, our mobile phones and laptops and bombarding us from every website and publication. What's next? Personalized signs on gravestones with ad space to rent?
I fancy a rotating sign on mine that can be logged into as my descendants wish, to read my words of wisdom, left to flicker for posterity. And he would like fairy lights on his so that a visit to the grave site need not be gloom and doom for the kids after he's gone.
What do YOU want?
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