My original post wasn't to really talk about "losing" things, nor was it a chicken-licken "everything could go wrong and probably will so lets worry worry" post a la Jeremy's suggestion It was more that people haven't thought through any of the implications of this migration from physical to virtual - and then, bang on cue , people on facebook start throwing up their arms in disgust about something they think is news, even tho they have all installed a million facebook applets where they had to tick a box saying they agree to let each applet access and share their private info On the one hand I think people deserve what they get, but on the other I think this is a tiny foretaste of something much bigger to come