The only thing I have drawn a box around in the online sphere is my LinkedIn account. I truly treat it like an online resume (and I need to add some info now!) and as my "professional" face online. Professional as in what has to do with my 9-5 job, which is professional service firm marketing. Now, everything I'm learning doing this internet marketing thing is applicable to my regular job and I don't post or do anything that would be embarrassing/inappropriate, but I just don't feel pictures of my dogs or comments on the new Joss Whedon show are relevant for my "professional" space. So nothing else I do is actually included in my LinkedIn account. But that's the only place where I do that. Other than that, it's all me, all the time.
I never even thought about a need to keep parts of my life segregated until I started a Facebook account. Suddenly my Squidoo friends were mixing with my family and church friends and former high school friends and colleagues. All the circles of my world began to collide. It was weird.
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