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Originally Posted by Velcro_SP
Cute comment. You know I provided it myself now. What you did was before that. It's wrong to go websearching for a person and post his or her name or other information when he or she hasn't volunteered it. How would you like it, Lene?
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I'd have to disagree there.
If you put something online for the world to read -- a blog, say -- you have to expect people to read it. If it's searchable, you have to expect people to search for it. And this is the Web, where the fundamental concept is linkage; you have to expect people to link to it. You can't insist that people you're talking to in one place pretend you only exist in that place and not read the things you've posted in some other place. That's kind of the whole point of it being the
Web.
A basic rule of Web survival: If there's something you wouldn't want your mother, your boss, or your spouse to see, don't put it online. The odds are, one of them will.
In a more general sense, if there's something you'd be ashamed for people to know you've said, don't say it.
And if there's anything of which the misuse could cause you harm in real life, for the love of God don't put it somewhere that
anyone on the planet with a computer can read it.