If you are aged 25ish and under, then I charge you with one thing: Change Everything.
Media. Religion. Business. Politics. Economics. Education. You name it, it’s all broken. Please change it.
When you are 40ish, and the old guard has died off, make the right choices. Make everything new.
Thank you.
First, the Iranian government bans the use of Gmail, and promises to set up a state-run email service. So they can snoop. Then, Google Buzz exposes your contacts to people by default . Other than Google having options to change privacy, hard to distinguish these. Be sure they want to know everything about you and make it accessible. You want that, right?
Then Google deletes music blogs because of file sharing laws. Which makes the case for not putting all of your content exclusively on somebody else’s site (like Facebook), because once you do: it’s theirs to do with. Like delete it. You want that, right?
Hmm.
It’s hard to imagine this being demonstrated any better: http://sivers.org/ff
Addendum: http://sivers.org/ff2