Should you post personal info on the web?
With blogs, mySpace, Facebook, and similar sites these days, there’s quite a bit of debate of how much personal information one should put on the Internet. Some have even suggested that anything posted to the Internet should be completely anonymous.
There’s certainly good reason to be careful. I think that some people forget that anything posted online is out there - public information, pretty much forever. Even if you take something down, odds are some cache or archiving system has already picked it up. Large corporations and individuals alike have found that out the hard way.
I have a good deal of personal information on my collection of sites, but most of it is related to my business or resume. I try not to put anything out there that could cause me grief later on.
Like most things, I think that putting personal information online is alright, as long as you do it intelligently, and think about the ramifications before you hit “upload.”
