Oops... I may have just been outed by my phone and google+.
I got a new phone a while back, galaxy s4. I took some pics of myself yesterday... of Aeslyn that is. Apparently my phone auto-uploads my photos to my google+ account. This is something that was turned on by default.
I work with technology. I do web and game content development and I am an anthropologist with interests in cyberculture and computer mediated commutations, I should have been more aware of this. But some how I slipped. Even the best of us can slip at times I guess.
It just bugs me that companies like google, apple, microsoft, and facebook seem to be going out of their way to destroy any potential to keep secrets. Me standing in front of my mirror taking a pic of myself in my CK bra should not be auto-uploaded to my google+ profile. Ok, so as an academic I know it is not the companies' fault. They are simply responding to a demand for convenience by the technology using community. For most of the internet using population it is zero f***s given about privacy and are far more concerned with posting everything online quickly and easily. These are trends I have watched for years. But now, people who do want to keep a secret or two suffer as a result.
Ok, a little bit of a rant, but oh well.
I was just wondering how common stuff like this is. How many of us have had technology seem to conspire to out us?