Digital Definitions: An Initial Impresson Via a Webpage

Let me first say that no matter how far technology advances-even as it brings us into each others living room-Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, etc. paints an incomplete and somewhat shallow picture of a person. Irregardless, this doesn't change the fact that whether they are people in the corporate, educational or social realms they are going to investigate our online identities and by default that is going to be their first impression of us.
Ironically, the more social media expands the more guarded I become. In the Myspace days I posted some personal information without taking into account that someone might be judging me on the content of that page. It wasn't like I would just put anything on there, and much of what was personal between my friends and I stayed personal. Facebook; however, has changed much of that. I have always like remain at least slightly enigmatic-online and otherwise. Now it seems like literally everyone is on Facebook: schools, nonprofits, band pages, remembrance pages, fan pages and the list goes on. Taking all this into account, I make it a point to not only not to post anything that would hurt me professionally, but also not to post things that will hurt me personally. That's not to say that through my interactions with my contacts a lot of my personality doesn't shine through, but no longer do I go toward the risque. Especially with Faceook's questionable privacy laws.
Technology often times can move faster than our ability to adapt to it. That why we need to remember that yes, things have changed and it is now our responsibility to maintain control over our online persona. It also our obligation to keep real-time contact a part of our lives as this recent New York Times Op-Ed points out. As far as social media has brought us, do we really want all our friends and co-workers to be a collection of Facebook pages?
The overall theme here is be aware that people are watching and that our online presence has a big-time impact on our real-time lives. This video is by a gentleman who claims to be social media samurai. He says a lot of important things about the social footprint that online lives make. Why he is talking about these things while driving a car I don't know