The Internet and Privacy

First of all, allow me to postulate this premise: nothing is anonymous or secret if posted on the internet. Despite any attempt you may make to shield certain parts of what you do on the world wide web, a good forensic investigator coming into possession of your computer, a good attorney with enough subpoenas, or the press can likely discover anything you ever wrote, posted, or shared anywhere. It is so much easier, however, if you are sharing your partying styles, illegal activities, and sexual proclivities on such social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, and the like. Just because you limit your views to friends, family, and the like, people are constantly sharing this and that they find here and there, and the next thing you know, everyone knows your business. I have seen more and more seminars advertising how you can use social media in divorce and criminal matters, so the legal community is catching on. Another thing is that once it is posted, it is hard to take it back. With so many servers in so many different countries, a search may turn up something you thought you deleted years and years ago. I have learned this recently when something I wrote several years back on a site that was supposedly, according to my friend who owned the server, was completely eradicated about a strange walnut brought an email from someone who had found something similar.