I feel that some services should make the privacy settings at least as clear as possible. This isn’t that much my problem, but I’ve heard from many “ordinary people”, meaning those who aren’t born with a birth certificate with a Google account already installed, that they are mostly concerned about the privacy issues. And these could be more easily handled if these things were clear enough.

Google Buzz is another example of a specific viewpoint, taken by a specific culture of people, that suggests one life: one identity on and off and everywhere. It is presumed not only to be inevitable but positive. Its not – its simple, its privileged and its technocratic. Some people have no choice but to manage competing expectations.

Embedded in this ideology is a sense that it is okay to relinquish control over our identity to the information curators of our digital lives. It is a sense that these people get to rewrite the social contract of information storage at their whim.