DISQUS

The privacy issue remains locked in pre-internet thinking. Maintaining my privacy was easier before I started blogging, updating my Twitter status, revealing my interests on Facebook, sharing my reading habits, traffic, and purchases with everyone who would give me something fun or rewarding. All of these privacy reveals have been of my own free will and with the risk that some of that information, like my email, might be used in ways I wouldn't want (like spam). This is why I don't post my cell phone on Facebook or pictures of me drunk. I don't feel I'm censoring myself (I don't drink), but I'm acknowledging the reality of privacy on the web.