I came across a funny Youtube show about Google moving in as a roommate. The show has some clever humor on how Google uses a lot of our personal information.
This got me thinking about how much of our lives are now public knowledge. Not only as data points on an anonymous data bank but as pictures, stories, videos, etc. on Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Orkut, Myspace, Twitter, and many other social network sites. What does this mean? Is an online social movement good news or bad?
More of our lives are available to more and more people. I don't believe this is inherently bad. More connections in different social networks can help us live more productive lives. But the information is also available to strangers. Information can be used for good or bad, hopefully the good situations from online networking outweigh the bad.
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