I've been wondering about my data of late, more specifically what of it that is accessible to the world. Apart from this another has been in my thoughts recently - the amount of logins I have, the number of sites I'm registered on, the number of social networks my name is sprawled across. Just today, to get away from everything, everyone I made it towards my XBox and realised even there I have a character, a online presence or persona. I'm not sure exactly what this means for me but the more I think about it the more concerned I am that our online persona can at times fixate what we do, in the case of exposing ones doings on social networks, showing pictures of yourself and friends, sending updates and details about yourself to your friends. I get really concerned for people who have difficulty in the real world with bullies and social pressure to be seen acting a certain way being constantly targeted and essentially almost unable escape. I suppose you could just de-register but for some that is too extreme especially if say your family and real friends interact with you online also. That just needed to be said.

The next thing that's somewhat of a bug bear is hosting personal information in 'the cloud' and how great it would be if everything went to cloud. Sometimes I thing that's stupid. That's my data going further and further away from me. Do we really have that much data that we can't store it at home? That's another thing - why do we have so much data. Something's wrong here. If I had as many pieces of paper as I have data I'd be overun. What happened? But with all this data, we are happy to let someone else look after it? What happens if it's lost, stolen or "something goes wrong" - is our data, this new found mass not really that important? What is this data? Music, pictures and other files? Email and communication? Are we cool to let this stuff possible get lost?