Saturday, February 2, 2008
blogging and privacy
an interesting conversation with a co-worker today - she is resisting investing much time in the blogosphere because of privacy concerns. A valid viewpoint, perhaps, since all our musings and pictures and whatnot are open to, potentially, everyone. But what is really out there? Not my real name or pictures of me or anyone I know. And what would anyone learn if they bothered to read this? That I'm a middle-aged librarian who likes dogs and triathlon and cheesy sci-fi movies and traveled to Japan. I'm OK with that. And considering that nothing shows up without my consciously puting it here, well - "Cavaet lector" - let the reader beware.
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Great points. I agree with you. The best way to protect one's privacy is definitely prudence and foresight. Unfortunately, not everyone is that careful. So people end up deleting posts or hiding their blogs completely when they realize or someone points out that their post may have been a tad careless. Which is a shame really.
I like my other blog on http://i.ph because I can always switch a post to private. The rest of my blog remains accessible to the public, while my private posts can only be viewed by the people I choose even if the don't have i.ph accounts.
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