The web will always remember

Social networks and such things are everywhere. They are fine possibility for everyone to take his share at the striptease session regarding personal data. Web for being a part of it, web to be touched, web 2.0, web the trap - as it never forgets.

Every day search engines crawl a huge mass of sites and even archiving tools, as seen on archive.org are out to gather input.

And this is exactly where the problem is: Someone enters personal data on a website or publishes pictures. As soon as those are published, everybody may access it. Everywhere and any time. That’s the main reason for me to dislike the typical web 2.0 hype as nobody really seems to care about privacy. Social networks are even the direct opposite as they are trying to present their members to form groups.

You may say now, that you can delete your profile on such sites anytime you like. That’s true, but how about the crawlers and web spiders that already copied the data? As soon as they got it, it’s granted, that it is saved somewhere else too.

I don’t want to outlaw the whole system now and forbid anyone to take part on social networks. I just want to point out that it’s better to use a pseudonym while using such social networks, as it makes it harder to implicate it to you. Because imagine you’re applying for a job and your boss to be accidentally finds the pictures of a party you took part…