Originally published at Robin Hobb. You can comment here or there.

Almost everyone can read almost anything you write on the Internet.  Even if you make your social networking site blog private or 'friends locked' or whatever.  Even if you choose another name for yourself, one that you think will never be connected to you as a flesh-and-blood human.  There are ways around all those picket fences, and most of them are not nearly as complicated as the social networking sites would have you...