George Eliot once wrote, "There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life." She ought to know. Born Mary Anne Evans, the 19th century English novelist adopted the male nom de plume shortly after her first work was published anonymously, in part to keep separate her public life as a writer and her controversial private life as the common-law wife of an already married man. Over time, Eliot's readers learned the truth of her identity—and kept on reading. Ultimately, they didn't care what Evans did in her private life as long as Eliot wrote stories that moved them. Celebrities, politicians, and even corporate executives contend with similar "public versus private" information issues today, but in wide open forums. Because the Internet is all about information—that which we find in the public domain but also, unfortunately, that which industrious seekers find through their own devices and then make public—even Average Joes and Janes have to be aware of their Web identities and proactive in managing them.
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机译：乔治·埃利奥特（George Eliot）曾经写道：“没有私人生活不能由更广泛的公共生活所决定。”她应该知道。生于19世纪的英国小说家玛丽·安妮·埃文斯（Mary Anne Anne Evans），在她的第一部作品被匿名出版后不久就采用了男性nom de plume，部分原因是为了分开自己作为作家的公共生活和作为一个已婚同居妻子的有争议的私人生活。已婚男士。随着时间的流逝，艾略特的读者了解了她身份的真相，并继续阅读。最终，只要艾略特写了使他们感动的故事，他们就不会在乎埃文斯的私生活。如今，名人，政客甚至企业高管都在类似的“公共与私人”信息问题上展开争执，但这些讨论都是在广泛的开放论坛中进行的。因为Internet都是关于信息的信息-我们在公共领域中发现的信息，不幸的是，勤奋的求职者通过自己的设备找到这些信息然后将其公开，因此，即使是普通的Joes和Janes也必须意识到他们的Web身份并主动在管理他们。
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