Here we go

I have a confession to make. I am a privacy freak. This leads me to wonder why I signed up for a class about Web 2.0 when I knew that I would have to put my name, information and work out into the cloud and into other people's hands. I'm not as extreme as some people that I know about. For example, I have a friend whose uncle has a farm. On his farm he has taken himself off the grid. He has stockpiled food and supplies in case the world end. He only pays for things with cash and he is a privacy freak. However, I only have enough food and water to last 72 hours in the event of an earthquake and I am still on the grid, using credit cards, a library card and flashing my driver's license to buy a bottle of wine. So here I go, throwing myself into cyberspace, embarking on a slightly overwhelming, slightly frightening, potentially exciting learning journey.