Bruce has an excellent post about the data you’re voluntarilly giving to corporations. While he takes a consumerist view, and makes excuses for you frittering away your privacy (which I’m sure you’ll appreciate), the meat of this article is that if you trust corporations to do the Right Thing with your information, you need to reassess why you trust profit-motivated entities.  All that “community governance” crap is just a facade to get you to trust them with more information, so they can make more profit.

Frequently, I’m chided for my lack of MySpaceness, or FaceBooking. I am “on” those attention-whorish sites so that when someone sends me a link to a photo they took, etc, I can actually see it: But I don’t “do” what I’m supposed to. I don’t “friend” people. I don’t download obnoxious “themes” from the bajillions of sites that make impression money off of duped users trusting their chartreuse and purple-laden code to not insert bad things, and I sure as hell don’t rank people.

I graduated from high school. That was the end of cliques, attention whores, and “unfriending” for me.