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.