MySpaceSafetyTips.com

An article titled "Living online: The end of privacy?" in the September 18, 2006 edition of New Scientist talks about the massive amount of personal information that available and readily searchable on the Internet, and the impact of this on the future.

"Safety Tip #51: Can You Ever Really Leave?" and many other sections of MySpace Safety: 51 Tips talk about the problem of individuals creating a public record that passes out of their own control the moment they post information on public web sites such as MySpace.com. All of this information can be seen by others, and it may be available many years into the future, by which time new technologies will have made it much more readily obtainable than is possible today.

But not everyone is content to just let this happen. The New Scientist article also talks about ClaimID.com, a service "that allows you to track, verify, annotate and prioritise the information that appears about you online." Employers, colleges, and other organizations are already using search engines to find information about potential applicants. In the future, use of the Internet in this manner will only increase. Continuing the commentary on ClaimID, the New Scientist article says "such a service could prove increasingly useful for people entering the workforce with a few years of social networking behind them."