Alas. It’s the beginning of a new year, and it’s time to awake from my usual, year-end shutdown. It was a great holiday season filled with a lot of new memories. It’s always a bit saddening after New Year’s Day passes, forced to accept that Christmas is in the rear-view. Like many others, I’m just now finished stowing away decorations, but guess I have to start working my way back to the normal routines of work and responsibility.
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For years now, the word “social” has permeated every aspect of our online experiences. Integrating social aspects into development projects has been the norm for a long while now. That being said, some actors within the tech world seem to push the boundaries of what is acceptable when aggregating user-identifying data. Results of these aggregations/linkages range from harmless to outright creepy. Such an instance happened to me recently, and I thought I’d share as yet another warning to those who choose to share openly.
Or, at least the five random people who managed to find my site! I welcome you to my little nook on the internet. I really have no idea what my plans are for this site, so I figured I’d start of with something easy: the five W’s(and one H).