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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
I find it interesting that so many are paranoid about Facebook and yet have no problem posting personal stuff on various forums, such as this one. Or that using Facebook must be an all or nothing proposition. Just because one uses FB doesn't mean they must post every piece of information about themselves... they don't have to "Like" or "Join" or post anything that they don't want the general public to see.
As hard as it is to believe, anyone even mildly interested in finding someone could do it fairly easily before Facebook.
Having said that, regardless of whether anyone uses Facebook or any other social media, never, never, NEVER trust their privacy policies! ALWAYS assume that anything you post will be seen by everybody.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The owners of this forum don't try to connect my identity to my other activities online, nor do they attempt to push ads at me based on my activity here.
My identity here doesn't connect to my bank account, my phone number, my employment history, my address, nor my education history. It doesn't even give a good representation of my reading habits--there's no checklist of books or genres to be downloaded; someone who wants to learn what books I like would have to read many individual forum posts.
Well, no, but to be useful to connect with friends, you have to post personal information that I'm not comfortable with strangers--especially strangers who are shoving ads at me--having.
This, yes. Never post anything online you're not willing to have seen by: - Your employer,
- Your mother,
- The New York Times.
Not that you'd be *happy* with any or all of those seeing your posts, but if there's anything you absolutely can't handle any of those three seeing, don't post it online. Even privately... sometimes, security settings go off; private posts get accidentally re-set to public when companies restart their servers, or emails get forwarded to the wrong person. |
+1 to what Elfwreck says.
@ WJM
Yes. But.
Yes: I think most of us are fairly aware of the fact that privacy as such became threadbare due to the rising interconnection of activities in everyday life.
It might even be arguable whether the level of privacy intended to be granted to us by our countries' constitutions or the respective supranational human rights declarations is still maintainable.
Yes: The ammount of data a person might(!) find about me by cleverly combining various search methods with common sense is something I always try to take into consideration. Especially since I've done such background searches myself several times
Yes: Said ammount of useful data becomes even hair-rising if someone is willing (and financially able) to get it processed by sociological, psychological and statistical analysts.
Yes: add the power of governmentally driven organisations to all of this (realtime access to existing raw data regardless of its public availability) and the term "World Wide Web" becomes nightmarish.
But: There's a hucking fell of a difference between all of the above and
Serving all of it on a silver plate to literally everyone who knows how to type my name.