{"id":848,"date":"2019-08-30T02:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/?p=848"},"modified":"2019-08-30T02:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:12:43","slug":"spiders-the-web-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/2019\/08\/30\/spiders-the-web-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiders, the web, and me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am pretty phobic about spiders, so when I saw one hanging out (literally) in the shower tonight as I started to step in, it occurred to me that my uphill battle against spiders in the house has some parallels to my efforts to maintain decent barriers within my internet and social media usage. (I would say I\u2019m slightly less paranoid about the internet tracking) First, autumn seems to be on its way, and the spiders are either moving in to the house, or just being more visible. We\u2019ve dealt with a minimum of a dozen spiders in the last week. I think spiders are marvelous outside the house, which I consider to be their proper setting. I enjoy watching them scramble around in our garden space, eating pests and keeping their numbers in check. They have amazing physical characteristics and an ability to go almost anywhere. Various internet providers, online services, and social networks can also be extremely useful and have a similar, more metaphorical ability to be everywhere. I recognize that my house will never be spider-free, and my network interactions will never be surveillance-free.  On the other hand, I\u2019m willing to go to some effort to minimize both spiders and data surrender. We try to minimize obvious cracks and food sources for arachnids in the house, and online, I pay attention to what information I\u2019m willing to share and how I access various sites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I read through the various resources about what gets\nshared, stored, and tracked, I was edified to see that there wasn\u2019t a ton of\ninformation that was entirely new to me. I use minimal profiles and background\non my social media that I use for truly social purposes, like Facebook. For my\nmore professional usage, I focus on more narrow, work-oriented background and\ncontacts. I use multiple email addresses, including an essentially throw-away\noption for signing up for online services and the occasional online purchase,\nwhich I also try to minimize. I started using DuckDuckGo as my search engine a\nfew years ago, and prefer the interface and results lists to Google. I clear history\nand cookies with some regularity, and the fact that my job as a librarian has\nme using multiple different computers in the course of a day or week, and\nsearching for a wide variety of topics and products well outside my actual\ninterests feels like a bit of extra camouflage as well.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are certainly levels of privacy protection that I\u2019m\nnot ready to tackle yet and don\u2019t really feel a need to utilize. I\u2019ve been\ntempted to play with Tor browsing on occasion, but I am not really interested\nin the attention that can also arise from that usage or that of some of the\nmore anonymous email providers. I\u2019m also not ready to go to a progression of\nburner phones or drop boxes that start to feel more like I\u2019m playing a role in\na spy thriller than managing communication. Since so many industries and jobs\nexpect some form of an internet presence, I\u2019d rather manage and curate one that\nsends a message I want rather than be completely invisible to potential\ncolleagues and employers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am pretty phobic about spiders, so when I saw one hanging out (literally) in the shower tonight as I started to step in, it occurred to me that my uphill battle against spiders in the house has some parallels to my efforts to maintain decent barriers within my internet and social media usage. (I … Continue reading “Spiders, the web, and me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,1],"tags":[25,27],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-concerns","category-social-media","category-uncategorized","tag-social-media","tag-privacy-concerns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}