It’s almost like you’re too transparent. I was sitting with the editor of ZDNet last night, Larry Dignan, and he is like a top writer, and he is like, ‘I’m scared of Facebook, because all my middle school friends are going and scanning photos,’ and he is like ‘I don’t want all that.’ Almost now we’re at the point when we don’t have control over what people publish about us.” Dignan is a professional who presumably does not want his online reputation sullied by unflattering childhood photos. Even sans tags, online photos can be misinterpreted. A friend once asked me to remove a picture of him hugging a female friend from my Flickr stream, because he did not want his notoriously jealous girlfriend to misinterpret it.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 637