Aah, yes. I remember somebody saying this as a joke back in the days of Usenet: "Nobody is anonymous, not even in ASCII." Or even earlier in grade school when they said, "Don't write anything down you wouldn't want shown to in front of your family." My feeling is that Google and Facebook are data mining like motherfuckers (targeted advertising or something more sinister?) and that there isn't really any real safe place to do email or contact your friends, coworkers, etc. That and I'm really glad I don't post any (really) incriminating pictures of myself on the Web. It's even disgusting how easy it is to find people that try to hide. A little digging on Spock, Spoke, Pipl, etc. and I can find contact info to go with that name and face doing stupid things.
What's the counter argument to this? "I have a right to be anonymous in a public space!"
Last edited by Plan9; 08-27-2010 at 09:00 PM..
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