Giving our lives away, or just more open?

Some interesting comments from Matthew Langham. That's one thing that I have not thought of before. The 'net as a medium allowing us not only to communicate faster and more open, but it is also distributing the information, our information, out of our control. This goes back to comments from Ryan about when you publish your blog (and everything else), you loose control over it. There are copies out there floating around that you would have no idea that they exist, let alone the ability to remove them, edit them, or choose who will see them.

I can see this as being a huge change to our society and I bet we won't even have noticed it till it's all done. In a couple of generations, I bet it will be a strange thought that you will not be able to find what used to be considered very personal info / data in a public forum. Imagine that your grandkids will be able to check out when you were blogging about that hot chick or getting really drunk last night.

All the data will still be personal to someone, but not most people. I think that the effect of this will be just that society will get more relaxed (which I think is a good thing). Maybe it will also mean that people will behave more consistently in different groups because members of each group will be able to see how the person behaves in the other group, but I doubt it. That's too much of a change.

I guess that in a way this is what we have been taught to do since we were children: share with others.

Listening to: Groove Armada - I See You Baby