I love the name!! I apologize for your comment getting stuck in my comment queue thingy. I’m delighted that you adore me AND that you’re aiming for Boo Radley status. That makes you ACES in my book!

This is just for you, my friend: penis. Penis. Penis.

I’d like to make some tasteless joke about how “Hey, penis ain’t a big word now, is it? IS it?” but I just don’t roll like that.

Srsly….great points about limiting places where one hangs out on the web as well as the whole issue of online actions seeming to fall into some sort of consequence-free void.

I will not get you started on the porn. Whatever that means. I have no idea what I’ve just said.

PS. I only share about 10% of my life on the web. The other 90% is mine. And it is scary.

PPS. I need shrink advice. Can you email me?

Don’t even get me started on the porn.

Can’t we have one post without the word “vagina” in it?! Penis. Penis. Penis.
“Feminize” the web?! Oh my stinking socks. What am I doing here?

Why do I think I am the only one having a problem?

Who is ndbeasle? I’d like to think that only my friends know.

Sitting at a box, away from other people, your actions lead to no known immediate consequences. With no look of shock to spur the “Oh my god, did I just say that?”, the realization of inappropriate behavior is poorly defined.

If you are younger and still developing a sense of socially acceptable behavior – or better said, boundaries – it gets even more messy.

In this webified world where with little real effort you could find my address and even go to MSN LiveSearch and look at my house, we need to well-define our boundaries and vigilantly protect what privacy we have left. We should not rely on Norton and McAfee to help us maintain our firewalls. Limit the number of e-places where you hang yourself out there.

As for children, it is my responsibility as a parent, to help them define boundaries. My nine-year-old is already wanting to play on-line role-playing games. G-J help us. My seven- and five-year-olds are not far behind.

Dingalator, you use too many big words.

-nd”not as anonymous as I’d like to”beasle

Hah! LOL I just Googled you. I see what you mean.

Thanks! Again, I hadn’t even been thinking about adolescents here, but wow does it ever apply, perhaps even more so than for adults. Good point about parents not being aware of social media and having pretty much no idea about how to impact their kids’ decisions/behaviors in this arena.

God(dess), it’s like me skipping school back in the day to go to the public library and smoke mentholated cigarettes and read Erle Stanley Gardner mysteries, only with smartphones and probably porn. God(dess) help us.

Wow! I’m humbled. Which is kinda hard to do.

I’m glad this post prompted some new ideas, and I think your point about boundaries “shifting” in terms of how comfortable we are w/our level of exposure is an important one. I know I’m a lot more comfortable now than I was when I first arrived in Web 2.0ville in general, but I’m actually less comfortable with a few things, like BrightKite, Ping, etc. Go figure!

Also, I hadn’t even really been thinking about the issue of protecting kids and/or other folks we may be inadvertently identifying online, but that’s really important. Definitely something to ponder.

I cannot reveal my sources, but my jewelry accumulation *may* have something to do with the scenario you’ve described, if by “hit submit” you mean “obsessively scour Etsy.com for the latest cool stuff and spend lots of money I should be putting into things like socks and dish detergent”.