Monday, March 10, 2008
electronic consumption?
Today I created two more accounts -- for librarything and rollyo. To go along with my blogger, hotmail, gmail, ICQ, AOL, yahoo, meebo, flickr, twitter, blogger, second life, wiki accounts -- whew -- you get the idea and I'm really a luddite all things considered! I don't have a myspace or facebook page - figuring -- isn't it good enough that people can find me with a good ole google search? We talk about our ecological footprint in terms of energy consumed but I wonder if we each have an electronic footprint as well? How much space does each of us consume “out there?” Not to mention the information that the good ole government posts about me like my property value. There is information out there on the subject but it seems focused towards a generation of college-bound Internet users who don't seriously consider how much information can be assembled about them before they ever attend their freshman orientation. Mark my words; I see a day when they'll be offering genealogy classes on how to trace your family's social networking history.
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I think Blogosaurus said it well on his blog: "Technology can be great for information sharing; not so great for privacy." Very true. A lot of people coming out of college into the workplace are going to find their social networking accounts pre-interviewing for them.
Ha! I love that - genealogists searching their family's social networking history!
Seriously, though, our electronic footprints are something that need to be considered. This is why it drives me crazy when I hear about schools whose response to all this is just to block the technology. Figuring out how to negotiate the online world is part of the new information literacy, and as some teachers and media specialists passionately argue, if kids aren't taught this in school, where will they learn it?
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