A good friend of mine is running for Village Trustee in Schaumburg, IL. His son’s friend recognized him from YouTube, which surprised him. We should all start getting used to this. Digital content is out there and it’s there to stay. Tagged and bagged, linked right to you from any Google window. For those worried about privacy, I think there is something to be said for hiding amongst the masses. There is such an overwhelming amount of data out there, I’m not really that afraid anyone would particularly care about mine. I’m careful enough not to post anything too sensitive, but you can count on anything you put online having the potential to go to anyone.

I’m trying to get Bill on Facebook to relate to his constituents. I’ll let you know how it goes. He’s hung up on the time it takes to create a profile, which I think it less important with Facebook than MySpace. I rarely visit people’s profiles. It’s less about the static page of interests (even horribly customized in MySpace) and more about what’s people are doing now.

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Andy Swindler Categories: Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Web