• Reuters, Friday, June 22, 2007 11:45 AM

Anyone can syndicate their own celebrity on the Web through social networking profiles, blogs, photo-sharing sites and confessional online videos. And millions do.

As Dave Wienberger, author of "Everything Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder," notes, this is the danger for future generations. As they grow up seeking jobs, especially public office, they may regret having left their digital footprint all over the Web.

For example, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton may never have been elected president had camera phones and YouTube existed in their college days. Anyone and everyone is under surveillance now.

Youngsters today are growing up with the notion of "the public world" as being outside their homes--or in some cases, their bedrooms. They're becoming adept at controlling how much of their personal lives they reveal to the rest of the world and finding that, like celebrities, revealing bits of yourself can endear you to the Web public.

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