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• [1] listener from NYC September 19, 2008 - 12:12PM

  aren't emails far from private to begin with?

  
  
• [2] Mark from Manhattan September 19, 2008 - 12:16PM

  WOW to think that people would just "dismiss " people the way LL did over a misspelling, I guess it makes them feel powerful, or complete in their own perfection. NO wonder the world is run the crappy way it is. It's all about appearance. Often talent and depth runs deeper.

  
  
• [3] Dan September 19, 2008 - 12:21PM

  The paradigm of the restaurant host that knows your drink preferences is entirely different from the kind of observation/analysis being talked about. In the former situation you're have the opportunity to know each other, openly. In the latter, you're being behaviorally mined with no awareness of how it's being done and no opportunity to learn about the 'other party'.

  
  
• [4] Amy from Manhattan September 19, 2008 - 12:35PM

  The difference is that when your local grocer or liquor store owner knew your preferences, they knew *why* you liked what you liked or didn't want your wife to know you were buying beer. Knowing you by the numbers isn't the same as knowing *you*, as an individual.

  As for my Internet habits, as a freelancer, I do searches for work that have nothing to do w/my own interests, like diseases I don't have or drugs I don't need...& don't want to see ads for.

  
  
• [5] Jeffrey Slott from East Elmhurst September 19, 2008 - 12:44PM

  To Mark from Manhattan,

  If a person can't be bothered to spell-check his or her own resume, then how reliable or responsible can you expect that person to be with anything else?