This post was mentioned on Twitter by GrahamAttwell: New blog post – Facebook, Digital Identities, openness, sharing and privacy – http://is.gd/4O2eY...

My own musings on the specific issue of adding tagging meta data to images shared online are here:

http://nicksharratt.blogspot.com/2009/10/digital-tag-dentity.html

where I conclude this may be a passing issue as society evolves a new attitude to ‘privacy’.

Just pondering now if perhaps the new approach will be more akin to small communities where everything may be public but people choose to act as if they are private – at the moment, we’re unused to things being so public and so it’s a novelty and we worry that others will feel inclined to peek at our lives as we might at theirs, but if everything is public, pehaps we’ll accept that and ignore it to restore a feeling of privacy for ourselves. We won’t comment on things we might see of others as it will become ‘rude’ to have pried despite things actually being public.

Whatever transpires, it’s clear we are in transition somewhere