Watching your back

Apparently one needs to be careful when Tweeting because the US Congress wants to archive your Tweets. I knew this day was coming, I just didn't think it would be so soon. Anything you write online will be accessible to someone out there or aggregated by different services and can be searched by the government. Wired has an article that explains more of the issue. I think I will be tweeting my last one tweet soon. Also Facebook is already archived and used by the government.

I think the rule of thumb is : be careful, you do not know what is going to be read by who. This is especially true when you go to look for your next job. So be careful what you tweet and put on your Facebook.

The US government and potential future employers aside, certain websites crawl and aggregate data, making up profiles of everyone based on what they find under automated searches and the like. I already have a lot out there, maybe its time to stop!

Sources:

Wired article: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/loc-google-twitter?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

readWriteWeb article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_us_government_spies_use_facebook.php