a few months ago, danah boyd published her latest thoughts about facebook’s violation of user privacy, and in a previous post, she had talked about owning your own identity.

i’m starting to think that we’re soon going to live in a world where you have to pick either total privacy or total openness. and every one of us is going to have to decide which side we fall in. i tend towards the openness side, especially in business life. for instance, i’ve previously talked about how i’m not a real fan of stealth mode for startups.

but here’s the rub – who has time to be so open? i had this conversation with a guy last night. he mentioned that he uses twitter. i do, too. but, i never visit their web site. i send my tweets via ping.fm, and i love that i can update my own blog using it. so it’s funny – i want to be open and “out there” and tell anyone interested what’s going on. and i don’t even mind if random stalkers show up to find out about me. but who has the time?