Thinking of Making a New Start? Forget It!

Once upon a time, folks who had ruined their life, generally screwed things up or just wanted to get away and start over, could up and move to a new town and voila - new life. Those days are gone my friend, thanks to the Internet and, specifically, social networking. The advent of Web 2.0 with all of it's interactivity, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, rss feeds, shopping and all that goes with it, means that most folks have left a trail that will live virtually, forever (every pun intended). User names and passwords on shopping sites means that even if you move from New York to California, they remember you. That is, unless you change them all. And how many folks really want to, or will take the time to do all that? Face it, if you shop Amazon, even if you appear in a new location, they'll greet you with your purchasing history and a collection of items they know you'll like! Wait, I thought this was a new start?

OK - I'll make a new Facebook. Wait, I need to add a lot of my old friends, because I don't have any here! And those old friends will probably forget to remove my old profile from their list of 600 friends and some of thim will make more than one reference to my old personality. Busted! And Oh - and with sites like "Whitepages.com" - if I get a new phone, it's just a matter of days . . .

While you can put in a huge amount of effort to cover your tracks, fact is most folks won't put in the effort, and even those who are willing, aren't aware of all of the places they are identified, tracked and tagged. So face it. Now, more than ever, your best bet is to take your time, and do your life right the first time. The Biblical saying "be sure your sins will find you out" is now something that even non-believers must believe in!