The internet still wants to be anonymous

As Facebook ascended to the throne of social networks, it quickly became something the internet hadn't quite known at that point: a digital ID card. It seems silly now, just seven years later, but before the rise of Facebook, and MySpace before it, much of your online activity was simply yours. Maybe you had a LiveJournal or a Xanga, but even then how much you revealed about yourself was not left to sign-up pages and privacy controls nearly as much as it was left up to you. Outside of your email...