I think this point rings especially true, especially in the light of recent events at PyCon. Social media has vast power to build or ruin reputations, and having all your private information on facebook can give you a larger surface area to attack.
This has always interested me (well, maybe not always--I'm not that cutting edge :p).
I used to have Facebook but deleted it, because I didn't like the whole concept of people using your online persona against you. Yes, my profile is still in Facebook's database but at least it is no longer immediately searchable/accessible.
And what I'm getting at is I have some friends with anarchist tendencies. Two of them are computer scientists and they had/have no problems voicing their anarchist thoughts on Facebook.
The other person was in the (German) languages field and she would never talk about it nor post anything related to it on her Facebook.
I still don't know where I stand because I travel to and from the US a lot, and feel if they associate me with anarchist stuff this may complicate matters when trying to cross the boarder.
For example, I was going to post a photoquote (I just made that up) with Thoreau and the statement "If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
But I decided not to. Hurrah for self-censorship, brought to you by the gov't.
I think this point rings especially true, especially in the light of recent events at PyCon. Social media has vast power to build or ruin reputations, and having all your private information on facebook can give you a larger surface area to attack.