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Should you lead a double life on the Internet ?

April 25, 2008 · Posted in Tech tidbit 

After procrastinating for a looong time, I finally opened a Twitter account today. I’d put it off till now due to all the information overload I suffer on a day to day basis (ok..partly because I was lazy too).

Signing up for Twitter however got me thinking - with the rise and increasing popularity of so many distributed services today, what really happens to my privacy ? Thanks to my blog and my accounts on Orkut, delicious, Facebook, Twitter, LinkeIn, Digg, MyBlogLog,YouTube - I end up leading a pretty public life on the Internet. On most of these services, I have set up pretty lax privacy settings in the hope of networking with other folks, outside of my personal circle of friends.

It is a bit difficult to keep a disconnect between my personal and professional/blogging friends using a single account on most of these services. Yes - services like Facebook do have pretty good privacy controls - but setting a per object level privacy setting is often a pretty tedious task.

It makes me wonder - whether I should keep two user accounts for some of these services - one that revolves around the social graph of my friends & family while another, which revolves around the social graph of my professional and blogging friends.

What say you ?


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  1. Varun Mahajan on April 25th, 2008 3:40 pm

    Well, I see a business oppurtunity here in your argument. Something like ProfileSplit..something like plaxo with a dividing line between profiles..Not sure if I am able to convey my thinking…but I think you got some idea..or anyone reading this comment…may implement this idea…a buzzword for this can be ‘professional-private split’