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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Lets NOT TALK about Confidentiality please...

[WARNING : All the characters and events in this post -- even those based on real people -- are entirely fictitious. The following post contains highly confidential matter which sould not be read or referred to, by anyone either living or dead.]

I don’t know if there is any confidentiality policy with regards to blogging. No, I am not talking about the ones which we actually HAVE to read before clicking the “I Agree” button, I am talking about the spread of critical information which you share in your blogs.
You might be tempted to write your heart out in your blog which you believe is just like another brick in the wall, that it will be just like another drop in the ocean, but no, that is not the case always as I learnt it the hard way.
One should always keep in mind that there are some people who derive, what can I say some pleasure by passing on the information to someone whom you believe should know about what you have written in your blog in hmm… your death bed or some other places or situations where you might gather such a huge amount of sympathy so as to escape scot-free from being ravaged or eaten alive.
Don’t get it? Let me elaborate a bit. Suppose you have written something in your blog and don’t want the faculty to know about it (I have heard rumours that faculty does read some of the blogs, but I am quite sure or rather pray to god that I am not one of those lucky elite!). But now as there is with any good masala movie, comes a villain, lets call him “Mr. Squealer” or Mr. S for simplicity.
Now Mr. S. goes through your blog, being a self confessed smarty, he interprets the meaning of your blog in such a way that the best of interpreters and compilers are put to shame. Now armed with these WMDs (now using the information given by you against you is like, a person, borrowing your dagger to stab you), he decides to take some expert opinion on the topic. He thinks and thinks, and as it is quite obvious, there pops on his head a bulb which glows with a blinding brightness. He concludes, who can be better than “Guru Devo Bhava”, yes he goes to the faculty who is also the self confessed “Know It All” or in other words, the master of that subject.
They discuss all possible interpretations and other unforeseen inferences and conclusions which will put the best of critics of Bollywood (if you read DC, you will know what I am talking about, for instance let me tell you that the review of Titanic read as follows “It is a pretty sick movie with people drowning, and if you are the person who derives pleasure from other peoples’ suffering, this is the movie for you!” yes, I am not kidding) to shame and make the innocent blogger gloat with pride for writing such a masterpiece with so many interpretations, easily beating the paintings of Da Vinci as it was illustrated in the best selling novel of Dan Brown, “The Da Vinci Code”.
Now the consequence of such enlightening discussions or tete-a-tete of Mr. S leaves little to imagination. The poor blogger is left to the gallows, that too in the best case.
Now, the moral of the story is, No, I don’t want some elaborately written pledge of confidentiality upon which we attest with our blood. What I am asking is, there has to be some sort of a code or something regarding the use of the information gathered from our blogs especially when you meant them to be taken in a light vein with no aforeseen harm to the society and to the human race.
Please give it a thought.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

hey, I wud recommend you to post only something you want ALL to know, everything else shud go in personal diary (preferably not in digital format).

You know Google is indexing everything so be carefull...

3:53 AM  

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