From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Why I dislike LiveJournal
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:38:09 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Why I dislike LiveJournal

> At 11:41 AM 3/23/05 -0500, elizceleste at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> >The need to keep one's hobbies and professional life seperate on such an
> easily googled universe? It should be quite obvious.
>
> Sounds like you should look into another profession, or set of hobbies.
> You can always be "outed" if you don't, index or no.  Many professions
> don't care what you do with your spare time so there are options.  Leave
> the ones who do care to the boring people of the world. ;-)
>
> As Will Rogers once said:
>
> "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell the family
parrot
> to the town gossip."

Back in 1998 I did a small fanzine in which I discussed leaving the
employment of a company called Logotel.  For some reason a friend of mine
posted the file on his website, as an experiment, with no published links
or URLs.   Not long thereafter I heard that my ex-employer had done a
search on me, or Logotel, and *found* my fanzine (which otherwise existed
only on paper).   I insisted my friend take my fanzine down, which he did,
and I heard no more about it.  (No doubt the fact that my criticisms were
accurate, and the company subsequently folded, were also factors.)

--Ted White