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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
It's not a problem. My real name is Stitchawl. Stitchawl, with a yahoo.com mailing address. It solves a lot of problems and none of their spam garbage ever reaches my 'real' e-mail box. Same with Facebook and their requests for birthday, high school name, where you were born, where you work, when you got married, blood type and DNA are probably next. Now they are 'offering' little games for people under the guise of 'what is your state,' 'what is your movie,' 'what is your generation,' by asking a series of 10-15 questions about personal preferences. An absolute GOLD MINE for Data mining companies when combined with your real name and birth day. They can then zero in on your Social Security number, and from then on, you are an open book!
Yep... my name is Stitchawl
Stitchawl
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I don't even exist on the Internet.
Search Katsuami. You will find a website Katsunami.com, which is not mine. You'll find a (somewhat) famous DJ that is not me. You'll find thousands of Katsunami's inside and outside of Japan, being nicknames or even real names.
If you search for my full real name, you'll find 3 pages with Google hits, all referring to people that are not me (and all of them in a different country), except for one hit that refers to my account at a marketplace website for photography gear. (ATM, I could quit that account, should I want to.)
So, yeah; for all intents and purposes, I don't exist on the internet, and I'd like to keep it that way. This is the reason wy I NEVER fill out any profiles, and disable all profile comments and reactions on any forum. Obviously, I don't have facebook, twitter, linked-in.... which makes some people think that I'm some sort of idiot.
"But... Why don't you have those accounts? Why can't you be found on the internet? You're in IT, more reason to have them!"
- "Yeah. I don't have these accounts
BECAUSE I'm in IT. I know what companies and people can do with that data. Once on the internet, always on the internet."
They don't understand.
And then they complain when they get tangled up in feuds because of reading and posting stuff on facebook, or get fired at work because they twittered that the boss is an @$$h013.
Then they suddenly understand.