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Deleted User Banned                  Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6296 days |
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| Crock of bull balogne in my eyes. Sure, you can't give out your personal info in some idiot infested communities like Neopets and Myspace, but if you know what you're doing and you're in a generally mature community (This one. At least it's... trying to be.) No one will be insane enough to come over to your house and turn you into milk's meat.
That's just my views. Share yours. |
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Skreename Giant Red Paratroopa     Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6302 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| The concern is typically not that people are going to go to your house and beat you up. The concern is typically about people in general knowing things that have no legitimate use to them. The more information that is in the hands of potentially unscrupulous people, the more they can do to you.
Often enough, the risk isn't as big as people think, but I still prefer not to let too many people know things that can directly link to me. I don't even really think it's justified, I just don't like people knowing too much about me unless I know them personally. Of course, I still mainly keep that kind of information to what would be useful for people in ways I'd want it to be useful. |
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Jomb Deddorokku   Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Unless you're chatting it up with psychopaths your main concern is identity theft. Thats a sucky thing to go through, but its not nearly as bad as being the victim of a mugging, armed robbery, or any non-cyber way of stealing your money. | |||
candrodor Red Goomba Since: 12-31-05 Last post: 6382 days Last view: 6382 days |
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| I find it a really strange thing...
I would never give out my name(full) or get more specific than region with my address/school, online, even though I trust my online friends more than I do my RL friends with pretty much everything other than that. Thinking logically about it, I don't know why I am so bothered. What could happen? What bad would happen to me? Nothing more dangerous than going about in the streets, in fact, less, I'd think. What about giving out photos? What about mobile phone numbers? I've done both, to friends. But never home number. Never home address. Never photos of other people. I think it's partially because I don't want my parents to find out the extent of my onlinefriendiness or something, more so at least than my fears of anyone hunting me down. Psychopaths? How can you know? You see on the news everytime a girl gets kidnapped and raped by someone she met online. So do parents. I think for most people who aren't very aware of the internet in the first place, that's the impression they get of lolinternets. Over here, there've been letters and pamphlets made by the Home Office (although I doubt very many people are aware of them) saying a load of guidelines for parents monitoring children's online habits. Following them, I wouldn't be allowed to enter anywhere more intelligent than a BBC moderated chat room, with no query functions and I'd have to report to my parents every day as to who I'd spoken to about what, pretty much. Like Hell. Just make sure people are sensible about what they do online. Who's going to do that for the people that don't have common sense? Not parents. Most don't have a clue. Same for teachers. Not to mention the fact that people like their own privacy with what they do. How would you like to have to tell your parents everything you do, assuming you're a teenager? You wouldn't. Why should it be any different online? So. Common sense > constant parents watching over. I'm only 14, so I'm not thinking at all about identity theft... and I'm not thinking/writing in a very ordered way~ ohdear. PS: This post makes me seem like I'm dead worried about my parents finding out my social life exists for the most part online~ I'm not. It's just the other reason I feel I shouldn't give out personal details like, name, is one I can't exactly tell myself a good reason as to why, so I don't want to go on about it. (edited by candrodor on 05-30-06 05:05 PM) |
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DarkSlaya   930 Gamma Ray  Since: 11-17-05 From: Montreal, Canada Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Great post above mine. (congrats)
It seriously never bothered me to give my full name and give the name of the city I live in. (and from that, you could easily know exactly where I live etc). Now, I never gave my phone number online for a single reason: I don't need to (and people in my house would think it's weird). However, I'm hesitant to give pictures, but then again, that's just me and how I see myself. Posting soundclips of my voice doesn't bother me, however I hate how my french is when recorded, and I'm not confident enough in my english. Oh yeah, pointless stuff ftw. |
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candrodor Red Goomba Since: 12-31-05 Last post: 6382 days Last view: 6382 days |
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Thanks! 
That's a fun idea I'd not thought of before, voice posting. I know LJ has a paid feature for it, but then, who needs automatic telephone posting to record your own voice~ Voice, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the safest things you can put up. Who's going to recognise or find you out through your voice? |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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true, it's oftentimes difficult to tell who is a psychopath and not. That's not really an online problem though, its a general living your life problem. Funny how when the people met online and one turns out dangerous its such an outcry about the internet, but when the people met in a church or in school or where-ever and one turns out dangerous there is no outcry about churches or schools, etc. I'd just say if you want to meet someone in person who you first met online, do it in a public place with people knowing where you are and when you are supposed to be back. I've actually met about 7 or so people in person after first getting to know them online. So far every last one of them have been exactly who i thought they were. But i'm a guy, and a fighter, so if i did meet a psychopath and they tried anything they could end up being the one in trouble  (edited by Jomb on 05-30-06 09:46 PM) |
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Skreename Giant Red Paratroopa Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6302 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I'm not so much of a fighter... main thing is that people who see me tend to be a bit weirded out or scared... I look like I could be mean, so people tend not to bother me.
I don't post pictures or voice recordings because I don't have any pictures (and I don't really want random people to see me. Self-conscious, you understand) and my voice sucks. I constantly mumble and it just sounds... bad in general. I actually have met a couple of people in person from online. They weren't bad people. |
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