Or "don't say words your mom told you not to say."

When people get tired, me especially, the link between cause and effect starts to get a bit weak. I stop seeing the relationship between what I do and say and how it will play out in a social and cultural context. Basically I loose common sense.

Common sense is this ability to judge how your actions will ripple forward through the people and culture around you. It is a deep understanding of cause and effect as it ties to society and the physical world. For example: common sense would tell you not to drill a coal bed methane well through an aquifer, because that may: 1) ruin the water table in an area as methane and petrochemicals leech into the water. 2) may upset and anger the people and social groups that rely on that water.

Over the last few weeks ( months, years, whatever ) I have been integrating all sorts of disparate elements of my online life. Blogging, Twitter, Facebook to be specific. In the process I have also been slowly blurring the line between personal, social, and work spheres. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It is an experiment for the moment. What it is rapidly teaching me is that I now have to be exceedingly careful what I say, and where I say it. If I run off and put curse words in the titles of blog posts, those curse words head over to twitter and then facebook, and hit a wide range of my social and business network.

It forces me, through being radically transparent in my online dealings, to be:

1. Honest
2. Behave in a manner that is not totally crude and uncooth
3. Recognize the full public disclousure that is online communications

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing as of yet. But I do know that sticking the f-bomb in my post titles when tired, late at night, is probably a bad thing to do. Apologies to anyone offended.