What won't you put on-line?
Or, I'll do anything for blog, but I won't do that...*
What won't you put on-line? It's an interesting question because that answer has changed a lot for me over the years. I've felt more responsibility in managing the on-line identities of friends as I go around blogging, photographing, and twittering. I think about it a lot more than I did when I started.
What did I come up with?
*Apologies to Meatloaf. I couldn't help myself.
What did I come up with?
- The names and likenesses of friends who don't have or don't want an Internet presence. I try to respect this and have gotten more in the habit of asking for people's preferences.
- Time stamps during business hours. Even though I may have the day off, I don't want to give the impression that I do personal blogging, etc. on the job.
- Indecent photos or photos that are socially questionable, ie, chugging beer.
- Personal attacks.
- Opinions about monetary policy. I don't want to give my employer any reason to look at my on-line activity.
- No diatribes or screeds about current or former employers or co-workers.
- Work that's easily found or distributed elsewhere. That wasn't always true, but it's true now. I don't do this mostly because I found it boring and unnecessarily contributing to the echo chamber.
- Things that I consider to be gross or distasteful. I just don't want to associate that stuff with who I am.
- No LOL cats. I like them. I enjoy them. But I will not create items for or perpetuate this meme.
- Unverified information. I try not to post things without checking it out first.
- Financial information. I don't make this publicly available, but I do bank on-line and make purchases, so I can't say I don't have this out there.
- Passwords. By its very nature, this is information that I have on-line. However, I don't post or store them in on-line docs.
- Other's phone numbers & addresses. If someone asks me for contact information, I pass the request along to the person to let them make that decision.
*Apologies to Meatloaf. I couldn't help myself.

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