From the head of Zeus

Consider this: employers and schools, and even volunteer affiliations, are making decisions based on your blogging and social networking habits. But, more important that they're even suing to get archived data from years back. So, once it's out there, you can never take it back... and you get judged on it no matter how old you were, what was going on in your life, etc. There is no longer an opportunity to grow as a person. You are expected to 'spring forth fully grown' as Athena did from the head of Zeus, full of wisdom.

One organization I know recently brought up the issue. They expressed a desire to limit what people put on their social networking accounts, even personal ones, if they're affiliated, as they felt it reflected back on them as an organization.

For me it's an issue of free speech, free association, and this whole world that now emphasizes that you should simultaneously "keep your personal life out of work" as they seek to try harder to control your personal life, especially in the corporate climate.

So, aside from controlling you while you're doing the one thing you must spend at least 40% of your time doing (work), they want to control the other 60% of your life. You cannot talk about or do the activities that define you as a human being. You cannot be an individual. You cannot express an opinion or have a desire that is not "on-stage or off-stage behavior" if you belong to one of these large corporate structures.

What book could this possibly derive from? None. The reality is here now. Shhh... careful what you say... because you're not paranoid...