All the faces

Just had a look at Adrian’s link All the Faces of Facebook.

I was quite taken aback and stupidly spent a good ten minutes trying to find faces I knew (I failed).

Adrian wrote “services are porous to each other”. I’m not sure how I feel about this statement. A little concerned? A little defensive? A bit anxious of all the bits and pieces pertaining to me that exist in the infinity of the web…?

When I was about 7 and about to create my first email address (a very big deal at the time), someone told me that I must never give out my last name over the internet because if I did, someone could track me down and find out everything to do about me. It was a threat that stuck for a very long time. I feel queasy giving out my last name even today. But it’s hardly relevant now given the existence of social media platforms like facebook in which we aren’t asked for information, but give it willingly.

I’ve never been one to over share but it’s funny how I/we deem some site to be more “worthy” of our information than others; how we can be willing participants on some platforms but sceptical of others.