Yostivanich

Part 1: I talked about just how much of my life is now online, search­able and archived, along with some of the basic rea­sons as to why I do this. I know want to make peo­ple feel bet­ter and let them know what I don’t post online.

I never post any­thing about some­one else unless I either san­i­tize it or have recieved explicit per­mis­sion. For exam­ple at most when I talk about some­one online I never use any­thing more than first names and even then is only in rare cases. More often than not it is merely, “a friend” and that is it.

I never reveal any­thing online that I would be uncom­fort­able hav­ing exposed pub­licly at work. Some peo­ple also use the rule of not talk­ing about any­thing they wouldn’t mind their mother or grand­mother see­ing, that is a lit­tle bit of strech for myself, but I see the logic.

Finan­cial data, I will never hand over con­trol of my entire finances to one com­pany. For instance using an online Quicken reple­ca­ment such as Mint. That just scares me too much.

Those three sim­ple rules pretty much rule my online life. Every­thing else who cares, in 15 or so years hav­ing what infor­ma­tion I do expose online will be nor­mal. The con­vience fac­tor to me is just too high.

The abil­ity to go online and gain acess to all of my infor­ma­tion from any­where at any time, that would nor­mally be locked up either on paper and pen or on my computer’s hard drive beats for me any con­cerns I had over pri­vacy. That and the more data I have up in the cloud, the less that it mat­ters if my com­puter were to die today or tomor­row. Every­thing impor­tant is already avail­able to me the minute I get a new com­puter and have Fire­fox run­ning. It’s almost inter­est­ing to me to watch as the num­ber of soft­ware pro­grams I had installed peaked in 2003/2004 and since then has steadily dropped, till I now have around 25 pro­grams installed on my com­puter and I could prob­a­bly get rid of more with­out ever miss­ing them.