It's what you do in your free time that will set you free – or enslave you.

I had spent several years very active in Flickr when one day my wife suggested that I try the new photosharing groups in Google+. I resisted the idea. I didn't particularly want to have to start all over in another social media. Nevertheless, because I was a cyberpsychologist studying online photosharing, and because Google+ was supposedly the Next Big Thing, I reluctantly gave it a try. Without really looking over recent posts in one of the groups that seemed active, I jumped right in to post my own message. I stated who I was, a cyberpsychologist specializing in online photosharing, along with a photo and image pointing to my online book about photographic psychology. The next day I received a message indicating that I had been banned from the community. What? That had never happened to me before. When I contacted the group moderator, he very briefly stated that I had inappropriately, right out of the gate, marketed myself. When I questioned his decision to ban me, he didn't reply. At first annoyed, I then reconsidered the situation. After all, in the real world, I would never pop into a room full of people talking and then announce myself without first finding out what was going on there.