When search engines such as Google and Live (yes it IS a good search engine) and other sites like wikipedia surfaced the web, finding information about anything became as simple as clicking a button. This also included information about people and connecting with people as well, especially with the recent storm of social networking sites which make keeping in touch with people a trivial task – at least for those net savvy people who have nothing else to do but keep browsing the web wasting their time going through others facebook profiles and updating their status.
All of this has surely made the world flat and everyone’s life an open book. I can basically find information about where a person lives, his/her marital status, work status and even what a you did yesterday or last weekend at a click of a button- doesn’t this get you scared. Sometimes i feel like a celebrity (not in a good way), in the sense that everyone seems to know everything about me without knowing me personally. There are even sites which specialize in people search (eg. pipl.com) where you can just get info about people just knowing their name and country, and if you have a unique name like mine well you have all the information, including my previous addresses which even i don’t remember.
This is making me very anxious. While I do want to share information about myself (and yes i do know how to use the security features on the social sites) there is still a lot of information about me that I dont like seeing out there.
I am waiting to see a service/tool which would enable people to secure information about themselves on the web, not only information they published but also published by other people. Dont we have a right to information about ourselves?
All you social networking entrepreneur’s heres some food for thought, and if you need someone to help you design it get in touch with me, I already have some stuff cooking.
