Thursday, May 13, 2010

Privacy Issues

I was happy on facebook. Until all this negative publicity regarding its privacy issues started. I still don't have any issues with it as such (which means that I am not a nerd!), however, now I feel like the purity of my relationship with it is lost. It is clouded. Doubts. Accusations. "Brad is Seeing Jennifer Again, Angelina in Depression". True or false?

So I've decided to branch out and rest at the blogspot more frequently. 

But, HA! 

I can't quite say that I am off to a good start here. Why? When I tried to create a 'New Blog', it asked for my mobile number. Yes. My MOBILE NUMBER. To protect my account from abuse. I don't know if this is a good thing or bad. As I said before, I am not a comp geek but I felt quite nervous about handing off my mobile number to this total stranger. FB never asked for my mobile number and we have been together for a while now.

What am I going to do then? Well, I am going to keep adding posts under my first ever blog created. No matter how annoying it gets.

Who is smart NOW Google, ha?

Here is how I see my net-life (pun intended) distributed:
Facebook = for keeping in touch with friends/family, general goofing off
Twitter = for emotional outbursts, de-stressing, connecting with my favourite celebs
Blogspot = for contemplations (deep, not-so-deep, whatever)
(Talk about not being a nerd..Get a life Priya!)

Next task: read up on blogspot privacy issues and get even more confused. Obviously, my net-life and cerebral fluid activity are very important to me. Hmm...can I restrict access here? Should I? Why? To whom?...

Cheerio!

2 comments:

  1. One good idea, I'm realizing, is to do things sequentially on the web viz, sign out of your blogspot account before accessing facebook, then sign out of your facebook account before shopping online, and so on... ref http://inventorspot.com/articles/facebooks_open_graph_targets_google_ad_dollars_40510

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  2. Interesting. Signing out to lessen the confusion you mean?

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