{"id":146,"date":"2009-02-11T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-02-11T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T22:43:15","slug":"web-20-and-the-birth-of-the-digital-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-20-and-the-birth-of-the-digital-big-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Web 2.0 and the birth of the digital Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb.com wrote an article about the end of online anonymity in favor of a one-size-fits all online presence for individuals. <a href=\"http:\/\/openid.net\/\">OpenID<\/a> provides one user name, and one login for a variety of sites. On the OpenID website, it&#8217;s announced that Facebook is a member. (I guess that explains the various post to Facebook links I see everywhere.)<\/p>\n<p>Perez argues that its anonymity that loses out, assuming we were all that anonymous to begin with. She suggests that, &#8220;the only way to prevent reputations from being damaged in the process is to always &#8216;be on your best behavior; in public. Frankly, that&#8217;s no fun. No more wild boys nights out? No more getting silly and stupid with your friends? No &#8211; not unless you&#8217;re willing to live with the consequences of having it plastered online in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve thought about what this means in terms of my public and private behavior, which sadly will or has already changed to reflect the digital trail I&#8217;ve been leaving. As she states, &#8220;Like reality TV show contestants, the act of being observed will change our behavior. Our personal brand image will become our public identity and therefore our identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/the_end_of_online_anonymity.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb.com wrote an article about the end of online anonymity in favor of a one-size-fits all online presence for individuals. OpenID provides one user name, and one login for a variety of sites. On the OpenID website, it&#8217;s announced that Facebook is a member. (I guess that explains the various post to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/web-20-and-the-birth-of-the-digital-big-brother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Web 2.0 and the birth of the digital Big Brother&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}