By Robert Faletra

Vol. 17 Issue 2 February 2011

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IS IT ME OR IS EVERYTHING WE DO IN BUSINESS

and life beginning to result in giving someone the ability

to stalk us? If you sit back and think about it,there are

far too many people watching far too much of what

we do every day, and entirely enabled by technology,

we all try to drive deeper into the culture. This morning

I got up and instead of walking down to the end of the

driveway to get the newspaper,I turned on my iPad and

downloaded today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Not 10 minutes into my day, and I had touched in with my

first stalking incident. Unlike the old days, when I sent my

dog down the driveway to get the newspaper, every ad I

saw and every story I read had the capability of someone

knowing I had looked at it. That information, of course,

is now in some database somewhere building my profile.

After a cup of coffee and a bagel, I did a quick check of

e-mail to see if anything needed immediate attention

and there they were — more requests from people I

don’t really know very well who want to friend me on

Facebook, link on Twitter.

Am I the only one that has a sick feeling when an e-mail

Monday morning alerts you that someone you were

hanging out with at the football game that weekend

has “tagged you in a photo on Facebook?”

Being tagged on Wednesday or Thursday is bad

enough, but Monday?