Imprint Mine
The New York Times has an interesting article on the stickiness of Facebook.
It turns out people do not like the fact that their personal info and activity on the site can remain indexed, indefinitely.
Monetizing personal info is not new, but it seems Facebook makes it glaringly obvious to most people that anything they do, say, or produce may be used indefinitely.
Clearly, anything you do on the internet can outlive you, no matter how you try to remove it from existence. If this is a surprise to you, do some searches in Google on yourself — or your friends. Try some email addresses. Post to Usenet back in the day? Still there?
For quite some time there has been this idea, for many people, that the internet is a playground where they are free to disregard the well established moral and social norms. That is changing. The internet is a public place and with social identity comes personal responsibility, with the same consequences that exist in real life.
Your imprint is what you make of it. Make it a good one.
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