Be honest. It's easier.

[nasu_dengaku]

Apparently Facebook messages are a major factor in divorces now.  This isn't surprising.  If you tell your spouse you'll be in Place A doing Thing A, but you end up going to Place B and doing Thing B, it's getting easier for them to find out.  Even if you turn off Google Latitude and other location-based services and don't post about your actions,

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[sarcazm]

and this is why i always opt for the brutally honest option.

[plymouth]

I was a crappy lier long before the internet, so I pretty much gave up on it :

[nasu_dengaku]

Well-partitioned and open is an interesting mix -- if I understand you correctly, you make everything public so people can find more out if they want to know more, but you do make efforts to keep your different manifestations of your identity for different spheres of life separate so that people who don't google you don't find out more? Or did you mean something different?

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[valdelane]

Spoofing meatspace tracks will just get harder over time as cameras, sensors, and taggers (human and AI) become more ubiquitous. I agree, just be honest.

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[nasu_dengaku]

Thanks!

Thinking more about it, I believe much of the personal dishonesty that people will get away with in the more distant future will happen inside people's heads - knowing that they can't get away with dishonest behaviors, they will instead suppress the expression of parts of themselves. This is of course sad, but people have been doing it for centuries.

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[vvvexation]

Sounds like a step backwards in this case, though, if people used to be able to do things like visit gay bars in secret, and then they stop being able to. I hope this trend is at least counterbalanced by broader acceptance of a wider range of behaviors, so that less stuff needs to be hidden or suppressed.

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[nasu_dengaku]

Yeah, society could end up going two very different directions -- transparent permissive or transparent restrictive. I think the former is much healthier, and societies that choose this path will flourish. However, there are many groups that will seek to take advantage of this transparency to push things in a more restrictive direction. It will be interesting.

[donaithnen]

This is pretty much just another angle on David Brin's Transparent Society argument.

[nasu_dengaku]

I should really read that book.