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ha. I thought about the date thing. It's kind of irrelevant.
It makes me anxious sometimes when people google me. Weird shit comes up, like posts to mailing lists from five years ago. But so much other stuff is on public or near-public record (carfax?) that the only real question anymore is whether or not you're willing to put $50 into stalking someone.
Back when TechTV was cool (2004? 2003?) they had this half hour show every once in a while where some crazy intellectual would ramble for 30 minutes or an hour about whatever their pet theory was. One guy went on about how our notion of privacy is going to change. Maybe I'm paraphrasing, and maybe I'm combining some other ideas too, but it was basically said that privacy will no longer be about not being seen. That's pretty much out the window, with how many cameras we have everywhere. But, instead, privacy will be the right to be left alone. Glass houses, but soundproof.
As for the nuts, well. Emails and phone numbers can be blocked. There are whackos, and there are solutions. I think what would be most frustrating (what has been most frustrating) is the overlap of social groups, honestly; when online friends track me down on facebook, or something, and then my neighbor is all, "who's this weirdo from Florida?" Which comes back to ownership again.
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