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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6174920" data-attributes="member: 31216">**This thread is not about ENWorld specifically. I'm just giving the full context of what got me thinking on this.**I was just searching for my ENWorld private message page, (something I rarely deal with), and in my looking around I saw my profile page, (something I haven't thought about in years). On my profile page is a Google map showing where I live. Now, it only shows an icon over the [wrong] city, but still, it gives [nearly correct] info I've not given to this site, and actually don't want shown publicly. I'm a very private person, (despite having a blog about my life), and I work very hard at keeping my real-world information off the Internet. There is no personal info in my blog -- no real names, no city of residence mentioned, etc. Even very few pictures of me or my family.I only have a Facebook account so I can have my t-shirt business on FB. (You must have a personal FB account to have a business account.) My personal FB is pretty empty -- 90% of the posts there are from friends wishing me happy birthday through the years. I might have half a dozen comments made by myself. I would not be on FB at all if not for my business, and I have to constantly remind myself I need to post something on my business page. (I don't even have a FB app on my smart phone.)Everywhere I go around the Internet, everything is connected to some social networking. Connected to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Often I have to actively turn off connections. When I recently signed up for Netflix, I had to make sure to turn off the FB connections. I don't want anyone automatically knowing I just watched Magnum P.I. or Firefly. All this social media interconnection really, not only annoys me, it kind of weirds me out. I don't want the public, (friends or strangers), to automatically know what I'm doing, where I am, who I'm with, or anything.At one time, society was worried about Big Brother constantly watching over us. But now it seems that society has willingly opened up their lives to the world without a government's intrusion. We complain about the NSA and Google invading our privacy, but damn, most people's privacy doesn't need invasion. Just friend or follow them online. They'll tell you everything.What do you think of all this social media interconnection? Do you like it?Bullgrit</blockquote>

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