Left untended, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, email and Twitter accounts, and now, iGoogle, can become quickly cluttered and outdated.
It didn't used to be like this.
Back in the day I was a fierce privacy advocate, determined to resist this Borg-like social network of ours. Those were the days of moderated AOL chat rooms, and old-fashioned news groups.
Today we have elevated advertising, consuming, and branding to humanity status, a place where social networking and sense of self are one and the same.
In so intricately tying our social networking activities to our personal selves, our very identities, we have achieved a measure of privacy by giving privacy away.
People who wield power well learn to give power away. Instead of fighting for all privacy, we have given up collective privacy to achieve (or salvage) individual privacy.
This is just an illusion, of course. We don't really have much, if any, privacy at all.
For proof, check out this article a Southeastern teacher posted on her Facebook wall, which is what got me thinking about this in the first place.
After reading it, I decided to join the conversation rather than avoid it.
So now I have coordinated most of the social and networking sites I utilize in one place using Google Sites.
Am I selling out? Maybe. But at least I'll be organized.
"Going to hell in a bucket, baby. But at least I'm enjoying the ride."
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