[tadhg]

> You should never put anything on the internet that you don't want others to see. You shouldn't talk about things online that you dont want others to hear

I understand the practical aspect of this advice, but is this either realistic or fair? People will always have things they wish to communicate to only select subsets of other people--why should they give that up when they're online?

Permanent digital records of this kind of communication is a new thing, and while you're right that many people act naively about it despite warnings, it's also true that socially we haven't figured out how to handle any of this, and many of the complaints about Facebook are important expressions of how people think it /should/ be handled.