Discretion or Web 2.0?

People are doing their own PR with Web 2.0, whether they know it or not, and discretion has gone out of the window. I read recently how parents are anxiously following the adventures of their offspring on Facebook and how salespeople hungry for new business are watching Twitter for clues about how to approach company buyers. Is it time that a little discretion was called for? Do you really want to broadcast the intimacies of your life to the world? PR specialists are employed by the rich and famous to ensure that their best faces are presented to the public, and even this can go disasterously wrong as we see in the red tops every day. So how can the great unwashed hope to manage their own public images with any hope of success? Or perhaps they simply don't care.

On a completely different topic - don't you just hate it when tasks are delegated to people then their decisions are interfered with or completely overidden by the bosses who delegated the task to them in the first place? Let me know if I'm ever guilty of that please team!