© Lindes
We think we sneak around through life with only our closest friends and family knowing any painful truths about ourselves – the details we keep from the rest of the world. How much debt we have, what our home cost, the details of a divorce – we don’t display those details of our personal life publicly…anywhere. Those are our bumps in life. We all have them. We just don’t want to share them.
Try as you might, though, those bumps leave little trails in the documents of communities, public records, and online social networks. Yes, we don’t want to share our life bruises, but we’ll talk about them online under cover of a username. And then, without thinking about it, we include a profile with our real name, or a link to our family website, or a photo where we’re standing in front of the high school from which we graduated. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to follow those crumbs of information and figure out more about the real you.
