15 minutes of privacy

Last week I read from Facebook that in the future people will have 15 minutes of privacy in their life. I found this funny and somewhat true, but it also made me think. Then I googled myself – once again. On the first result page only 3/10 hits are not about me. About a year ago the results were the other way round. What does this tell about me then? at least that I'm probably quite good with my digital footprint. Also I seem to have joined quite few social media communities.

I think the first community was legendary Irc-Galleria where were some pics and people commented on them. I resigned from that when the age median was about ten years younger than me. Then I think I joined MySpace. It was just boring, because I don't do music and I hated that you had to thank everyone who added you as a friend. At some point I also joined Klubitus.org, and I might even have my profile still there. When studying in England I joined a German version of Facebook Studiverzeichnis in which all exchange student (of which majority were Germans) arranged meeting and put embarrassing photos from parties. After that I joined Facebook, which was basically just easier than StudiVZ mainly because of the language, and Twitter which isn't yet that big in Finland. And also LinkedIn. The ones I have skipped have been Google Wave (I just didn't get it) and Google+ (I was on holidays and didn't bother even give it a try) and Foursquare (I still keep this as a possible option, so far I haven't found it useful for me).

What I really like about this FB and Google stuff dominating era is, that you can basically log in almost everywhere with those accounts. Creating a new account and waiting for all the friends join it is just too difficult and boring these days. I realize that I've become a spoiled prat who want everything as easy as possible. But since the are so many options, I can already demand on good service that gives me something more than the ones I'm already in. Why would I join another Facebook when the existing one works well for me.

Now I'm waiting for my friend's new application Chains to be published as an iPhone app, and start using it to motivate myself with things.

Bye Bye Goggles!

I got my first glasses when I was eight years old. They were big, light blue and the most important there was a picture of a horse on the side of them. One day I was riding with our horse who went mad and caused me to fell from it's back. After that I found my horse glasses somewhere few meters away in two pieces. Mom took me to optometrist again, and I got my next glasses which were also big, but this time white and had colorful letters on them. Those glasses I broke at school while doing some gymnastic stuff and had put the glasses on my pocket. I think I was about 11 that time.

The next glasses were golden metal ones, almost rounded as only the fashion in mid 90's could be. The day I got those glasses I went to play with my friend and somehow I managed to make a huge scratch on them. Some how my parents were convinced that I won't need another pair of glasses that soon, and I lived happily with my golden ones until I was 13. Then the glasses just broke, and I got the next ones; brown oval shaped metal glasses. At the upper secondary I also got first contact lenses, and because glasses were super embarrassing, I wore contacts almost all the time until in London 2001 I bought my first cool glasses. Brown plastic French Connection goggles. There began the era of big glasses and the brown ones were followed with all the time bigger and bigger plastic goggles.

My last specs I bought less than a year ago, but by that time I had decided to go to laser surgery to correct the eyes. To celebrate the last glasses I got the biggest ones possible and with weirdest color combination ever; red and violet.

And then I went to the surgery. It went perfectly. And I'm happy. But sometimes I miss my goggles. A little.