Friday, November 26, 2010

Can you choose not to exist online TOTALLY?

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I am very curious to know whether one could successfully choose not to exist at all in the online world of blogging, msn, websites, twitter, youtube, flicker, picassa etc etc.

I am talking about a person who is one at the prime of his or her life, economically, socially and sexually active. I am not referring to a hermit in the mountain/cave somewhere. If you are a person, alive, working in Singapore, has colleagues, friends, family and relatives, can you choose to remain non existence in the online world?

At your friend's wedding, if the camera man takes a picture of you and other guests at your table and subsequently uploaded and tagged it, can you tell your friend to remove that picture and untagged you ie. telling your friend not to share its joyous occasion?

I just think it is plain too difficult unless you have nothing much else to do everyday except to just diligently and earnestly googling/binging about yourself online and closing down all traces of you in the online world.

Or perhaps you are no longer among us. Sigh. Can you leave me a fingerprint?

Good night.