With these tools, you have an opportunity to be published as the lead story of your own personal tabloid – every day. You may as well have your photo published in the supermarket checkout line – right next to Brad and Angie.
People want to be loved and admired. And facebook, twitter, myspace….heck, you could even argue our beloved Piggington’s….are the enabler for that projection.
Why would this be surprising?[/quote]
Well, to me it is a big difference between a blog and these social media mentioned above. For instance, here on piggington, most people don’t really know who I am. And most certainly, most people don’t know who my wife/kid is, when we’re not home, when we’re out of town, what we’re doing at a particular instance in time.
Again, maybe just paranoid me, but I think just about everyone has a skeleton or two in the closet, and somehow the if complete strangers know too much intricate details about your personal life, those skeletons have a way of rearing it’s ugly head when one least expects it.[/quote]
No it’s not just you. I don’t have even a fake account on any of those services. Guess I’m just not with it either.
I’m 100% behind your security reasons for not even beginning to sign up on one of those. I’ve seen people post things and the first thing that pops in my head is “Now’s the time to rip them off”.
Maybe I should consider burglary as an option after the layoff?
Even my daughters are starting to use Facebook less and less. They abandoned MySpace a while back. They’ve learned on their own that sometimes it’s best not to tell everyone everything about your life.
One of our fearless leaders at work thinks ‘twitter’ is going to revolutionize the economy along with ‘cloud’ services. He’s busy trying to ‘virtualize’ the company.
I think I made “the list” when after one of his rambling speeches in a meeting I pointed out that a cloud constantly changes shape at the 20K ft view. Thus it’s hard to define. Once it’s at the 1ft level, you find out it’s nothing but fog.
This whole working for a living is overrated anyway.
