Vanished

I found this article very interesting and it some what related to the article All My Life For Sale in my opinion because it was a new perspective to personal identity. Ratliff pointed out the difficulty of running away in our modern world full of technology advancement. I imagine it was much more difficult for police detectives to track criminals on the run in the 60s and 70s, and now you can pretty much track anyone, criminal or not, on social networking sites. The thing I found the most interesting is the variety of people that took part in finding Evan Ratliff. The whole idea of starting over with a new life and unknown identity is quite frightening actually, but it really brings out a great point of the power of technology. Not only is technology is a big factor in his hiding scheme, it's the people that came together to work as a team to find him. The many blogs and groups created on the internet shows how something so unique can cause a big uproar. Many people were in it for the money, but a lot of people were actually in it for the challenenge of the hunt. Once the easy task of using the internet and technology in general for the answer was stripped, it made finding him more exciting and difficult.