You Live in Public

Whether you like it or not you are now living in a world where your information is public. Even if you don’t have any social media pages and you don’t tweet every hour. People can find you. Don’t run home and change your locks, embrace it.

Living in the public for the most part is a good thing. You can make business connections (LinkedIn or FastPitch), find info about a new hobby (Twitter), get reviews and tips for a new restaurant in your city (Yelp or Foursquare).

Embrace the openness. You will enjoy it. And you will find that most people will not bother you.

I share all my contact information on my website. I find this to work very well, if someone has a real question for me, they can find my email and phone number (Google Voice, just in case I have to block them)  and contact me.

Robert Scoble – Shares all his contact info. Says that he doesn’t get bothered too much. This is someone who has hundreds of thousands of contacts. Someone who makes it his life’s mission to be seen at every event and interact with the most people there.

Guy Kawasaki – Lists his email and other contact info. I’ve contacted him couple of time when I had a question. He replied, answered my questions. Was very easy and eliminated a lot of headaches in trying to find someone who knows someone who knows his grandmother.

I’m not telling you to list your bank pin code or your home address. Just to make it easy to get in contact with you. Be smart and don’t overshare, you know what is safe and what is too much information.  i.e. Don’t create your home as a venue in Foursquare…

Be smart and connect with the world!