I do have a problem: I like profiling and my privacy! Can they exists simultaneously?
I’m really into all the web2.0-profiling stuff: flickr, delicious, youtube, lastfm, plazes, twitter, myspace, facebook, blogs… It’s amazing how easily you can publish and share your stuff. Collect your friends, discuss, meet new people, get feedback and new inspirations. Do you remember the good old days where self-hacked-static-html-websites was so only way to get online? What a mess – for god’s sake – they’re finally gone!
But every coin has two sides. As it is so down-to-earth to use people tend to share everything – without knowing what they are doing. Internet is a big, everlasting archive: once your data is in, it’ll get never out – and google & co. get it all. As of this, foreign people may have access to your data, which was only meant for your friends or personal storage. Years later, you data can be found – even it’s already deleted on your page – google cache and archive.org do thier best! Who no-techie-users knows about that? I myself must confess, I don’t know what personal data of mine is already out there, it’s so hard to keep track.
As my tool whoami displays, its technical quite simple to aggregate your data, create relations, new coherences. Suddenly your are transparent for everyone!
So, what is a good solution to strike a balance between sharing data and still having privacy? Is it just using those websites with brain & care? Do we need more technical support, do we need more educational advertising?
(for those who read this article in ten years later: sorry I was young and need that money 
