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How Private are You?

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Robert_Whited

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A study was just released that confronts this exact issue of personal privacy. With all of the social sites available, the amount of traffic through each one, and the seemingless un-ending status updates, one would think that there is no "safe place" for a person these days.

It is going to counter a lot of assumptions that have been made about young adults and their attitudes toward privacy," said Mary Madden, senior researcher at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. She was not part of the study but reviewed the report for The Associated Press ahead of Thursday's release.
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Here is a link to the whole study.
 
I'm a pretty private person. I had a Federal background check done for a job at the port authority a while back. They couldn't find any know information on me other than I was a legal citizen. They made me sign something saying that I wasn't a criminal in other countries. They still gave me the job. Unfortunately, now they have a picture of me and my finger prints. Not like they couldn't have acquired those by other means.

As far as the world of the internet goes, I don't exist. I have no facebook nor myspace or classmates....ETC. I try to get my friends and family to stay away from that kind of crap but they think I'm crazy. Maybe I am. I just prefer to not get sucked into that kind of thing. I wont feed your digital cows people. The bastards will starve if your counting on me. Besides, my TRON outfit is at the cleaners.:D
 
I used to use Facebook, I wish I could delete the information on there, but I can only deactivate.

So I guess my online presence is somewhat strong still, mainly because I use forums and use the FS/FT boards a lot.
 
I enjoy my privacy.

Random emails, random names, never give out true information unless you absolutely have to, etc.

I cringe at thought of people laying out their whole lives on the Internet.
 
Only "social" site I use is linkedin for formal work information. I do not have any facebook or other bs and will not.
 
An important part of the picture, though, must surely be our
finding that higher proportions of 18-24 year olds believe incorrectly that the law protects their privacy online and offline more than it actually does.
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This just in, many young folks are clueless about how the world works. Oh, snap!
 
Back when "myspace" was the thing, I had a page that I gave minimal attention to. When the facebook wave overtook it, I had to question myself why I was doing it. Without any good reason, I said f-it and don't use either. I think my myspace is still active, but hasn't been accessed in at least a year or two.

Yeah, totally not a fan of those sites.
 
BallerX said:
As far as the world of the internet goes, I don't exist. I have no facebook nor myspace or classmates....ETC. I try to get my friends and family to stay away from that kind of crap but they think I'm crazy. Maybe I am. I just prefer to not get sucked into that kind of thing. I wont feed your digital cows people. The bastards will starve if your counting on me. :D
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Exactly.
 
BallerX said:
I have no facebook nor myspace or classmates....ETC.
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Me neither. Privacy issues aside, I just don't see anything on facetube or mybook that holds any interests for me at all. Anything I know about them is stuff like "I'm taking dump now" and "I had cereal for breakfast".. ok, its not all like that but thats my perception of it.

My wife is a police officer here in the UK dealing with kid-related crimes (thats as far as I am gonna describe it) and the stuff she tells me about social networking would make your hair curl. :(

I even go so far as to block all cookies from everywhere (except places I need to log into of course like [H]ere) :)

I even read an article about how insurance companies and potential employers look you up on these sites to assess you for suitability so all those photos of you being sick in a fountain or whatever are gonna come back and bite you firmly in the ass :D
 
I'm online, but nothing really you could use to find me physically, and it isn't much to get off the grid, at least have anything out there now dead end. The important stuff, social number, finger prints, etc, the government already has from the military. Really though when you think about it, even if you have a presence online, in the cyber world you're just another out of millions of others faceless bytes.
 
Good thing I have a name that's almost impossible to find :D
 
I have a pretty generic name and I'm in the largest city in the world. I'm not that private, only because I know people may still have a hard time locating me.
 
Posting your real name actually makes you harder to find. Do you realize how many Charlie, Karen, or Dick there are?
 
Sly said:
Posting your real name actually makes you harder to find. Do you realize how many Charlie, Karen, or Dick there are?
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that, I frequently cross reference emails and aim/yahoo names etc of people I deal with online when I conduct business or am suspicious about their intentions.

You'd be shocked what a little bit of clever searching will turn up..
 
The only thing something such as MySpace is good for is finding/promoting music, that's it... otherwise, the general attitudes etc. of human beings is fraught with so much immaturity and bullsh*t, it's absolutely pointless.

What sucks is that, it's not the "social networking" sites themselves that are the problem, it's people, in general. They can be a good way to meet people from around the world with similar interests etc., but since most people are scum, that's the majority of what you're going to find in the world.

For that reason (and others regarding privacy etc., but you'd have to be stupid to post your real name etc. in the first place, IMO) I cant stomach "social networking" sites. Though really, it's people that make it bad, not the medium itself.
 
i just tried googling my name to see how much info i could find.

google came up with all of 2 entries, both for a people search. all those entries came up with was public information (name, phone number, address (im in the phone book and have a mailing address) etc)

what im surprised about is that i know of a 3rd site that i had to register my real name with (national corvette restoration society) and google couldnt find that.
 
I googled my name and a lot more stuff came up than I would have liked. My school felt the need to publish lists that include my name thanks to all of my college honors stuff, and apparently they also felt the need to notify the local newspaper of my achievements. The rest is just facebook. I guess it's not too bad.

I've never understood why people feel the need to splatter their lives across the internet. I can't tell you how many times I've cringed at things that my family and friends have posted on the various social networking sites. I also can't believe how many of my college friends couldn't grasp how bad of an idea it is to have a photo of yourself drunk as your facebook photo when you are in the process of applying for jobs.
 
The article just shows how little young people understand what privacy is. They respond 82% that they don't like to give out personal information then post everything short of their social security number on a website that takes all control of that information away from them!

I had one of my email addresses hijacked by some A-hole in Nevada. He set up a profile on facebook and they refused to remove it when I proved it wasn't his email. Ok, so numbnuts decides to change his password and I got the confirmation email as well as all the other account emails for his account. Well, since he's using my email address I guess it's MY account now.

So I changed the password then changed all the information.

I don't know if he really was into gay sex with drag queens but for two weeks that what his profile said.

After two weeks I deactivated the account and I haven't heard much from then since then.

:D
 
I used to use Facebook, I wish I could delete the information on there, but I can only deactivate.
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Google how to delete facebook. I deleted mine a few months ago. It requires you click a certain link and dont log on for two weeks if I remember correctly.
 
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