It’s a good thing that our lives are becoming more public and permanent on the internet. It will keep us closer as people. It might make us more civil and more forgiving as a result.While we tend to focus on the dangers of losing privacy, for a Guardian column I’m working on, I’d like to examine the benefits of living in public, of publicness.

this is the deeper issue behind all the SN hype. once people stop the sheep throwing nonsense and publish ala del.icio.us, then we are really connecting to our past. and to be able to see what shaped someone’s world view.

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