Google has its own like feature and I am thinking that social minuslike is genealogy

This blog could be a step to far with some rather rash assumptions and leaps of faith but sometimes it is good to stretch the mind. The thinking is that Google has introduced its own like feature and I am left thinking that social minus update features looks rather like genealogy.

As the tech savvy know Google announced in March 2011 that it would use social recommendations in its search results with the introduction of Google +1. The new feature puts a "+1" icon next to each search result, allowing us to recommend certain results and websites directly from Google, rather than on Twitter or Facebook.  Read more on ReadWriteWeb,  HuffingtonPost or TechCrunch
Ignoring the issues with +1 and search algorithms, it is about social and social is about understanding recommendation and influence.  The FaceBook like button is of the same mould, trying to determine what you Like from an explicit action rather than implicit outcomes following analysis of your data.
Once you have shared all this personal data (what you like), in wade the privacy protection police and tell you to lock it all down.  Anonymous ideals come to the forefront and new services come out to hide your identity and so the cycle continues until we realise that if they want to track us they can.
However, if we take the social feeds out of Facebook and recommendations, influence from our digital footprints what are we left with.  I expect we will end up with data that looks like a census; which is all rather handy for future generations to work out their family trees.
But, if you did have access to what your ancestors thought, liked, did, saw would you change your views on them?   The issue does become one for us as we need to consider that should happen to our digital data when we die!