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Quotation of the Day for July 30, 2010"But the hope that we could carefully control how others view us in different contexts has proved to be another myth. As social-networking sites expanded, it was no longer quite so easy to have segmented identities: now that so many people use a single platform to post constant status updates and photos about their private and public activities, the idea of a home self, a work self, a family self and a high-school-friends self has become increasingly untenable. In fact, the attempt to maintain different selves often arouses suspicion. Moreover, far from giving us a new sense of control over the face we present to the world, the Internet is shackling us to everything that we have ever said, or that anyone has said about us, making the possibility of digital self-reinvention seem like an ideal from a distant era." - Jeffrey Rosen, law professor at George Washington University, in the article "The Web Means the End of Forgetting". [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 26, 2010 |
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