guarding personal data

I've been pretty free with my personal information when registering for websites in the past. However, it hit me today just how little people care about protecting the personal information of the people who use their sites. I think a large part of it is ignorance about the importance of personal information.

From now on, I will be very firm about not giving out certain personal information. I'm also going to clean up the information that is currently being stored on various websites.

It's probably best not to do any online shopping. But I really like online shopping.

I really ought to delete my orkut account... but I can't bring myself to do so yet.