I don’t worry about what I have posted because I never post anything controversial.

I guess if I were going to worry about anything, it would be regarding the sites I have visited. Sometimes you can click on a harmless sounding headline only to find it takes you to some mad—dog extremist site. Then I might wonder if someone is counting the seconds to see how long I stayed before leaving.

I also wonder about e-mails I might send or receive. It’s easy to think of e-mail as private, certainly more private than posting on a forum. But if someone wants to read them badly enough, they can. I even joke with my friends: “You’re on the list now!”

I think the bottom line is that pretty much everything you do on the Internet is public. “Data mining” is the buzzword. You read more and more about intelligence agencies or even regular police forces scouring my-space or face-book or various forums to pick up information. Then they make lists of “potential terrorists,” or “persons of interest.”

I know nothing about hacking, so I have no idea how much they can find out from forums where you post anonymously. No doubt if you post anything seriously concerning, they can find out whatever they need with a little arm-twisting of the site owners.

Can I get arrested for posting bad poetry?

If so, I'm in serious trouble! Hide me!

It is already tracked, logged and categorized. As is ALL communication.
It is stored at the NSA warehouses outside of Seattle, Denver and Fort George Mead.
But then what do I know, I'm just the 800 pound Gorilla that flip burgers at NcDonalds in Palmdale CA