The friends gamely tolerate the way I pounce on objects for a photo. Luckily I'm not into taking shots of humans, otherwise, some angry human will fling my camera out of the window.
Still resistant to facebook. It's the most annoying thing in the world. Yes, as a voyeur, it's awesome as to what those fb pages can dig up. I love it as a research tool for sure. But I certainly wouldn't want to be up there, not even with privacy settings turned on to the max. I'm not comfortable with the man posting our photos on his fb pages. Now, he doesn't post photos of me or us. Whew. Hard to control where photos end up. I've no control over those photos from the past circulating around. But for photos in the recent years, I can limit circulation. There's just too much personal information online that one can dig up. There's so little private space nowadays.
Very soon, I'll have to ban myself from tweeting at dinner or the friends are going to throw my Berry into the ice bucket. There's plenty of randoms one can tweet about. Since the explosion of all these social networking platforms, among the friends, there's a clear, communicated (for the want of a better word) policy that human photos are not to be posted online, barring private fb pages. Same rationale goes for locked blogs, pseudonyms, vague references to incidents to increase the veil of privacy.
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We're going to be attending an event next month where they've actually stated no blogging or photos. Blogging can be done only in the most general of terms :) The idea is to allow free exchange of ideas without people feeling constrained.
dawn: i think many events are going to have invites that states no cameras or no blogging about it. otherwise, no more exclusivity left and it's annoying for other guests whose photos get taken without permission.
It's scary how bits and pieces of what you've written online get cached and saved by Google, even after I deleted those profiles or removed certain information. Definitely more careful about what I post online now.
It's a thin line and double edged sword...
i so agree about fb being the most annoying thing.
wildgoose: yup. that too. can't erased it ever.
kachunknorge: you can say it again.
sinlady: heh. i can understand your frustrations!
i deleted my facebook account on the same day i deleted my blogs. when i am back, i will let you know and will probably email you. ;)
thanks for making me feel welcomed here.
-misti
misti: you'll always be welcome.
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