XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.sf.tv, alt.battlestar-galactica   
   From: not@chance.dude   
      
   "Lister"   
    "Wickeddoll"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>"peachy ashie passion"   
   >>>> "Tim McGaughy"   
   >>>>>> "Ryan P"   
   >>>>>>>>>  There's nothing 1984 about it, like I said, individual viewership   
   >>>>>>>>> is not   
   >>>>>>>>>  tracked, only collective data.  The cable providers certainly   
   >>>>>>>>> know who   
   >>>>>>>>>  they're sending what to, why not let the television stations   
   >>>>>>>>> know?   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Good point.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Still feels a little creepy, somehow.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>  Welcome do the Digital World.  :)   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I've been there a while, but I'm still not at home with it...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> You're a girl. For you, it'll always be at least a little creepy.   
   >>>>> Unless you're on Myspace. Then it'll be a LOT creepy.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I don't get the appeal of MySpace or FaceBook.  It's just too out there   
   >>>> for me.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Natalie   
   >>>   
   >>>    Out... uh... where?   
   >>   
   >>In cyberspace - your life, accessible by a bunch of strangers.  No thanks.   
   >>   
   >>Natalie   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > You can control who has access to your facebook profile   
      
   Sure, but you have to "friend" them to do that, then let them see it.  They   
   may turn out to be ubercreeps, as such is the net.  I'm willing to share   
   certain things on a message board (family highjinks, etc), but some of the   
   stuff people post on those things share stuff that I would never share with   
   anyone I didn't know *very* well.  That's their prerogative, but it's just   
   not for me.  I think blogs, etc., are a great outlet, but I think one has to   
   be extraordinarily careful about what you share, and I'm too much of a fluid   
   thinker to avoid slipping up (I've done so in the past), so I avoid these   
   types of things.   
      
   Not a judgment of anyone, I just prefer to stick with my own home-grown,   
   (password locked down) online family-and-close-friends journal I've kept for   
   the past 5 years.  I sometimes share the logon info with a select few folks   
   I "meet" on the net, but it takes quite a while before I feel comfortable   
   enough to share that with them.   
      
   Natalie   
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