Does iTunes "Out" Your Lameness?

I admit it. The headline "ITunes Undermines Social Security" grabbed me. I mean, what tactic hasn't the RIAA tried? But iTunes is a RIAA approved service. Once I got into reading the actual article the utter lameness became obvious.

The ability to examine the music collections of co-workers, neighbors or fellow students is akin to peering into their souls: Someone who appears cool and interesting from the outside is revealed as a cultural nincompoop through the poor sap's terrible taste in music.

This is a joke, right? The idea that college students will judge you based on your playlists seems rather daft to me. I never lived in the dorms, but in my rare visits there were hardly ever any closed doors and everybody had their CD collection on their shelf, out in plain view. Sure, this is putting a catalog of your collection up on the net, but neither is iTunes sharing. The sharing is limited to people on your subnet, which is probably pretty small.

Anyway, back to the music thing. Everybody has at least one CD that they aren't exactly proud of having, but are never able to get rid of. It's always up on the shelf with all the "hey I'm cool" CDs.

Of course I'm old now, and maybe I just don't understand "kids these days." Or maybe I was just as shallow then and have suppressed those memories.

Who knows...