Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here

First and fore­most I don’t believe there is such a thing as shar­ing too much infor­ma­tion.    That being said I want to con­trol what I share, I also want to be aware of what is being seen, searched, and digested.   I will hap­pily write about any­thing and every­thing in my life, even to the annoy­ance of friends, fam­ily, and of course read­ers who have to put up with my inanity.

I dis­like how­ever back­ground checks, inter­view ques­tions that deal with your per­sonal life out­side of work, and assump­tions based on the find­ings of those two things.   What I do out­side of work as long as it’s not ille­gal is none of our busi­ness.   It is my life and if it has no bear­ing on our com­pany or busi­ness sec­tor, then buzz of.  If you are so con­cerned about it sub­scribe to my RSS feed, I’m sure some­thing on that sub­ject will even­tu­ally arise.

Dur­ing back­ground checks I’ve been ask who my neigh­bors are.  I don’t know I’m not the neigh­borly type.  I don’t hang out­side with a beer and play the “get to the know the neigh­bors rou­tine” — just because they live in a geo­graphic loca­tion adja­cent to me doesn’t mean I want to know or hang out with them.  I’m a picky per­son on who I waste me time.   The ones that I do waste time with have some degree of amuse­ment or I gain some­thing from it.   My neigh­bors are not these peo­ple.  The sim­ple answer is that maybe if I got to know them they would be.   That’s the rub and catch-22 now isn’t it.

The rea­son I’m writ­ing about this is the fact I was talk­ing about a back­ground check with some­one via e-mail the other day and she said that I shouldn’t worry about it, that her life is more inter­est­ing then mine.  She may be right.   That’s the not the point, I’m pretty in con­trol and aware of what I write online, how I share, and how it’s reused.   Check out my lifestream page for m activ­i­ties pulled and dupli­cated from many dif­fer­ent ser­vices.   I spread my dat­a­phonic seed across the blogosphere.

I’m aware and to an extent I’m in con­trol.  It’s when infor­ma­tion is forced from me in which I take issue with and will clam up.