I write surprisingly little about love. It’s strange though because that abstract concept consumes so much of my energy mentally and even physically. However, there is a strange, invisible line that I usually do not cross with the tag online-life-disclosure-ends-here.

Google my name and you get a little over a hundred thousand results (which drops to about two thousand when putting my name in ” “). There’s Facebook, Twitter, this blog, LinkedIn, old usenet posts and much more with my name on it. Basically, my online persona reveals just about every aspect of every part of my life. Except for love and relationships. Who knows whether or not I’m single, in a relationship, engaged or married? Well Google sure doesn’t. I will give hints though. Just a couple of posts back there should be plenty of material for analytical stalking. But it’s probably still almost like cryptographic ciphers for most people.

I wonder if the semantic web will ever evolve so that e.g. Google could analyse the probability of me being single. Imagine the search “Is David Lebech from Denmark in a relationship?” and Google answering yes or no depending on all the data they have on me. That would be truly scary. For now, I feel safe that my privacy is intact when it comes to my deeper emotions. And I would like to keep it that way.