Go read:
a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared.
Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make all of us stop and think. ... [via apophenia]
It seems being connected still counts for so much but I wonder how many 'real' people are being bombed by this. How many people really are handing over their filofaxes for someone else to keep, or more importantly, filofaxes they care about.