Foreign Perspectives

You might think that you can keep business and private life separate but online that’s pretty much impossible.

Anyone who has ever used the Internet to any extent will find that when they search for themselves online there’s a massive number of sites that turn up. All those posts you’ve made to forums are there to see, all those comments you’ve made on blogs, your own sites if you have them and you can often find that your e-mail address is recorded by a surprisingly large number of sites too.

Of course, in pre-Internet days a lot of this type of information was available too if you went out to look for it but it would have been difficult to find it. If you wanted to know what Joe thought about something or other you’d have to ask around, now you can search for what he’s said in forums and blogs.

Scary, isn’t it?