Uhm. I am only disclosing this here because I trust you. Well, yes. Anonymity is an interesting thing. I can trust you to both not give a damn and care entirely too much. Also  no one really reads this damn thing- except X-E- heads who by way of Matt understand and embrace the concept of the Corporation sucking the joy and life out of our souls on a daily basis.

 Yeah. Uhm… so.

 At my job, our marketing company is informing me that we should have an online presence in social circles. It will help us to drum up interest in our site, and will help us open ourselves up to other avenues of communication and advertising.

 So, at the request of my marketing company, I have made myself a corporate identity at one of those nifty social networking sites.

 I won’t tell you where, or what my name is.

 Why?

 It’s my corporate identity. As noted by one of my also-internet-savvy co-workers, having a corporate identity is a safe way to keep your personal info separate from your work info. Too many times people- famous people, influential people- have neglected to keep their personal lives separate from their business identities and have paid severely for it.

 I’m not influential, or famous. But my personal interests can possibly conflict with the customer base we as a company are striving to secure and maintain. Our customer base could be corrupted by my liberal views, my taste for metal music, and my best friend considered a loaded weapon to the ignorant.

 So, by that token, I am also going to remove any instance of my mentioning my company here on my little writey-doodah. I can’t have any links of any instance between the Corporate me and the Personal me. One interesting web search by a stranger could open me up completely- and that could get me in hot water I’m not prepared to go swimming in.

 This probably sounds paranoid. And probably is. But as my favorite saying goes, “better to be safe than sorry.” In my MySpace post- I’ve had weird shit happen before. And being this public- I need to take precautions.

 I’m sure you understand.