I watched Eagle Eye quite some time back, and I can’t stop thinking about my online activities after the watching movie. Sure, it is a work of fiction, but somehow or other, I find myself being convinced that we (in general) are spending too much time online, and that we are exposing too much of ourselves on the internet.

I’m not sure about you, but I do have a tonne of online accounts — from emails to online banking accounts to my blogs to the forums that I am a part of to photo sharing sites to social media sites to online bookmarks, you name it, I (think I) have it!

So today, I started doing some account-housekeeping. I have just sent an email each to Bloglines, Amazon Associates and PayPerPost to request that my account be deleted from their respective systems because “I did not utilize it as much as I thought I would”.

This decision is also spurred by something that happened quite recently. A Malaysian government department used a picture of mine (which I uploaded into Flickr) in a brochure that they designed and circulated nationwide. My picture was used on the front page of the brochure but as the photographer, I wasn’t given the credit that I so deserved. I wrote to the said department, and the Deputy Director said that the picture was downloaded by one of their interns and they thought the picture belonged to that intern. I accepted their explanation, and I explained that they could be sued for using pictures without crediting the photographers.

I have this cute little notebook into which I wrote all my online accounts and passwords, so in the next few days, I shall be combing the little notebook, removing whatever online accounts that I am not active in (so that I can sign up for other stuff that I am currently interested in) :upsidedown: It is going to take a while, but I guess this is something that needs to be done sooner rather than later. Plus, I can’t go to bed knowing that I have revealed too much personal information on the internet :grr:

Are you worried about your online presence? Do you think you have revealed too much personal information on the internet? What do you do about it?

Updates: As of Nov 14th, I have opted out of 13 online accounts that I very seldom use. THIRTEEN!

You know, I still haven’t blogged about the last 2 weeks of my trip to US/Canada. Ever since returning to KT, I have been picking up the bits and pieces where I left off before I went to US in April. Perhaps I am too excited and caught-up in the events that are happening NOW, at this very moment, that I am no longer excited about what happened 4 weeks ago.

• I am excited about being accepted into 9rules. How can I not be?! :cute:
• I am excited about the river terrapin tracking project that I would be working on in the coming weeks.
• I am excited about the up-coming Blog Action Day (to be held on October 15th) because I am (again) planning a month-long campaign that focuses on this year’s theme — POVERTY.

I know what you’re going to tell me — first things first, right?

OK, is anybody interested to participate in a blogging campaign on poverty? Let me know (in the comments), and I’ll shoot you an email :dead:

A few days ago, Liz Strauss invited bloggers from all over the world to promote their blogs on her Successful Blog. And yesterday, she showcased a total of 260 blogs, and guess what?!

Yours truly was featured, of course. I mean, how could I miss such an opportunity to show-off my blog? :D

Anyway, while you’re there, please take some time to go through all the blogs being show-cased. Liz has done an excellent job compiling 260 blogs and scheduling them to appear automagically every minute. Plus, there are some really good stuff in the pile, even if you’re not so much into blog marketing :secret:

There are blogs that specialize on productivity, making money online, religion, technology, book review/writing and blogging. There are also personal blogs, photo blogs, beauty blogs, design blogs, you name it!

Come on over now, what are you waiting for?

Ouh, in case you didn’t get that, I’m at #84 :vodka: