Facebook. Myspace. Twitter. The list goes on...

It's funny how times change. Just a few years ago, we were afraid to put our personal information online. We were warned against having our last names on the internets. That our lives would be infiltrated at the drop of any personal data. We feared the strangers on the other end of modems.

But now we volunteer it. As we should. There's no stopping information; it'll come out sooner or later. And by trying to remain private, we relinquish control of our internet identities to whatever search engines index. But by accepting the web's new world order, we take the first step towards defining them.

We should make sure that if people search for us, they find what we want them to see.