An aging security & governance geek muses on Facebook's "25 Things"

My buddy Ariel asked me whether my usual security paranoia reared its ugly head about posting "25 random things about me" to Facebook. This is one of those viral concepts that has blown through FB like the Melissa virus. It's like one of those chain letters that we used to throw people off of the system for forwarding to ALL. So, shouldn't I be paranoid, and how the hell did an ex email admin fall for this stuff? Well, it's complicated. There are three factors that play into this: an awareness of how information is collected by marketroids outside of FB; an evolution of how I look at security; and what I think is a cultural shift of what ought to be private. (link)