Another item for your checklist of what to do after graduation: change your name.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/18/1512200/Googles-CEO-Warns-Kids-Will-Have-to-Change-Names-to-Escape-Cyber-Past

Google’s Eric Schmidt says that people’s private lives are so well documented now that the young will have to change their names when reaching adulthood to avoid their youthful indiscretions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Schmidt says: “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.”

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