Are you adding value to your social network? You need to be, otherwise you will be seen as another bump on a log. Extending the Golden Rule of “do to others what you would like to be done to you” is imperative to being a citizen of any neighborhood or community.
Etiquette aside, living the Golden Rule is not only enriching, but a key driver for, or against an individuals’ or business’ success.
“For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,” Dr. Malone said. “In some sense we’re becoming a global village. Privacy may turn out to have become an anomaly.”
(Quote from New York Times article, You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?)
Turns out folks that online privacy may turn out to be (or is) viewed as an anomaly. Reading the NY Times article reminds me of a podcast on the topic featuring Eben Moglen speaking on “Freedom Businesses Protect Privacy” at the O’Reilly Media MySQL Conference in 2007. You can listen to the original podcast, published by IT Conversations, here. (Alternatively you can download the original podcast in MP3 format here)
