Profile

Sometimes it's hard to believe what people put on the Internet. This is a cautionary tune recorded in August 2017. But don't worry. Mostly, none of us is important enough to bother with.

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What kind of profile have you got?

Maybe you ought to think about it.

Is there nothing there you really shouldn't share?

Maybe not, but I doubt it.

All those private conversations on your wall

Turned out not to be so private after all

And all those funny photos posted by your Friend

May come back to visit you again.

What kind of profile have you got?

What do you think they know about you?

All that merchandise you might have bought,

All those places that you've gone to.

Your email's been scanned for its content.

Your ISP remembers where it went.

Your cookies have a lot to say

And location history gives you away.

What kind of profile have you got?

What do you think someone would pay to have it?

Is your identity sufficiently secure

Or are you an easy target?

All that information you give away

Feeds straight into your dossier.

You are exactly what your profile says you are.

Meet your electric avatar.

What kind of profile have you got?

Can you ever hope to change it?

Seems it always comes right back

No matter how you rearrange it.

It's there for all eternity.

It defies the laws of gravity.

So if you don't want something to follow you around

Remember that what goes up never comes down.