Thoughts, ideas and secrets. There is a constant classification happening in my head. The attempt is to make as many things public as I can so that I dont have to worry about the privacy as I have already accepted it to be public. But there is a difference between not-private and public info. What I post here on this blog is public and I dont care if my employers hire psycho-analysts to establish patterns from these posts. There is some info that I dont care if you know about me when you see me but I dont want it on the internet. In other words I dont want it archived online forever and become associated with me. One of the reasons why I was not comfortable reviewing music and movies. 

Some facts that are scaring the hell out of people:

• A friend doesn’t want any of her photos on any social networking site fearing that they might be morphed into something evil. She asks all her friends to take them down.
• A guy read the Gmail Terms of Service … the entire long agreement and decided to click on Cancel and chose not to have a Google Account.
• A friend discovered that something called Google Web History exists and immediately uninstalled the Google Toolbar.
• Another friend loves the Incognito mode of Google Chrome and uses it all the time for regular websurfing.
• Yet another friend is petrified that I shared a private YouTube video of her simply talking about a reciepe.
• I discovered some family-safe but super embarrassing photos of someone I know on someone else’s PicasaWeb albums.
• I am not even going to talk about the kind of private stuff you will find in your inbox. Don’t you ever be careless with your password.

It is very easily possible that all of the above could happen to anybody and then freak the hell out of someone. We want to share stuff online but at the same time keep it private. No point assuming that I am a nobody on the internet and even if I post everything online who is going to discover me.