Comments on: When everything is recorded

By: Howard Berkey

Howard Berkey — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:56:30 +0000

Actually, due to SOX, your office is potentially legally required to keep every blip you send forth, acm…

By: acm

acm — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:20:46 +0000

in addition to the levels of candor aspect, there’s the How Much Trail aspect — i.e., I don’t want to use gmail as my default because everything’s being archived. I presume that my office is less interested in keeping every blip I’ve sent forth…

By: Verious

Verious — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:01:34 +0000

I think your tattoo analogy is spot-on.

By: Stan Taylor

Stan Taylor — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:31:21 +0000

Rafe,

From what I hear, kids these days--in addition to walking on my lawn--don't have such strong internal filtering mechanisms are us old guys do, which leads me to one of two conclusions:

People who've grown up with these technologies really do view them differently than we do, or
Young'uns just don't yet have as well developed sense of discretion as we have.

If I were a betting man, I'd bet more heavily on #2.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:29:35 +0000

Maybe it's a good thing?

I mean, the reason for these things to be embarrassing is just that they're supposedly not what everyone would do. But in reality, everyone does them.

Even if it sounds a bit pompous, I think it might lead to a more tolerant culture.