One of the things we often talk about on Spark is privacy and personal information. How much of yourself should you put online, and how do you deal with your digital self once it’s out there in the wild?
It’s a thouroughly modern question, and it’s a question Spark contributor Tom Lucier has been thinking a lot about. Tom’s an entrepreneur from Windsor, Ontario, and he admits:
"I’m addicted to connecting. I love to connect. I have a blog. I’m on Facebook. I’m on Twitter. In fact, I have more than five thousand Twitter updates. I’ve been podcasting for four years. I’m contantly recording audio and video and posting it to the web."
But lately, Tom’s been questioning what he puts online.
You see, Tom’s a new dad. And at the same time he wants to show his daughter to the whole internet, he also wants to keep some of her first few years of life private and special.
You can hear Tom’s thoughts about this on the April 11 and 13 episode of Spark. But for a sneak peek, we’ve posted a rough cut of his essay here.