How Private Are You Feeling?

    

I was flipping through Pinterest a couple of weeks ago, looking for images of beautiful windows.
 Don't ask me why I was looking at pictures of windows because I have no idea, but I was.

Everything you could possibly want an image of is on Pinterest. I have developed a small addiction actually.

BTW, this new camera is amazing. Who knew I had reverse crows feet?

Back to my story. I'm flipping through the boards and I come across a private, personal family picture. Right there in the window section. In fact it's a picture that I would have paid money never to see again.

I hadn't posted it anywhere and no one in my family will own up to it did either.

That is a problem for me. Once something is out there, you can never pull it back.
Words fall into this category too. Hit "post" to a comment and it's there for everyone to read, asinine as it may be.

We all know big brother is watching. In fact it feels like Facebook has kicked sand in big brothers face and taken over the sandbox.

I used to be on Facebook. But even with all the privacy controls maxed out, people could tag my picture, see my friends of friends of friends and so on. Worse yet, some obscure relatives came out from under their rocks and claimed me as family! I don't think they were really part of my gene pool.

 Rather than struggle with it I just closed my account. Surprisingly I have not missed it one bit. I actually pick up the phone more frequently to see whats going on in peoples lives.

Of course in 5 years if I decide to reopen it...every single piece of my information will still be exactly where I left it.  Bizarre family and all.

Have you noticed that every application you come across, all over the net allows you to log on through Facebook?  Games, shopping sites, Twitter etc. The option is even available for writing a book review on Audible and Amazon.

Google knows every search I have every undertaken, (I had no intention of actually doing what I was looking up), every site I've ever been to and they also have all my emails.

I'm beginning to feel a tad exposed.

 

Considering the number of crazies out there/here it gives me a small shiver to think of the personal information available for public access.
I Googled my name and there I was. Name, address, age, family members names, business affiliations.

C R E E P Y


Just for chuckles and grins put your name and town into Google search to see what pops up!
Does this ever bother you? Who's searching for me?
I'm not sure I want to know. I'm just more paranoid private than most, I suppose.

Of course I was that insane mother who instructed her children to hold their breath and race past anyone in our path who was sneezing or coughing.

Does any of this bother you or should we just call the men in the white coats for me?