I was just reading a thread that reminded me of this, I just found this out last week and it's really scary. Google your user ID and you'll find your threads, profile etc out there. I wasn't very happy when I discovered this, how do you feel?
jbibiza: I was just reading a thread that reminded me of this, I just found this out last week and it's really scary. Google your user ID and you'll find your threads, profile etc out there. I wasn't very happy when I discovered this, how do you feel?
jbibiza: I was just reading a thread that reminded me of this, I just found this out last week and it's really scary. Google your user ID and you'll find your threads, profile etc out there. I wasn't very happy when I discovered this, how do you feel?
Well only people on here know my details ie my username. If someone looks up my real name they will not find skimpydoo so I am not that worried.
jbibiza: I was just reading a thread that reminded me of this, I just found this out last week and it's really scary. Google your user ID and you'll find your threads, profile etc out there. I wasn't very happy when I discovered this, how do you feel?
I don't like it at all!
But with all of the laws being different internationally concerning the internet, it will never change... There has to be some accountability to what you publish on the internet, or what you receive here on the world wide web
It comes in handy checking out scammers I have nothing to hide so it doesn't really bother me,they can google away.Anything I post in my profile or in any forums is out there for everyone to see anyway.
jbibiza: I was just reading a thread that reminded me of this, I just found this out last week and it's really scary. Google your user ID and you'll find your threads, profile etc out there. I wasn't very happy when I discovered this, how do you feel?
well i just found out after googling id im not to happy with it either what we say on here should be kept here i think,whats all that about
jbibiza: I was just reading a thread that reminded me of this, I just found this out last week and it's really scary. Google your user ID and you'll find your threads, profile etc out there. I wasn't very happy when I discovered this, how do you feel?
Well that is the good and the bad of the Internet.
Nothing can be considered as safe from being open for all to see when you do it on line.
It might interest you to know that there is also a site that saves old pages and web sites as an archive to preserve them for prosperity. So even if you delete your profile it will live on somewhere stored on the web forever.
That's why they can show you a web address you can use to link to any of these pages to show them on any site or place you might want to share them. They are open HTML documents and available for all to find if they know how to search for them.
Just copy the address of this page and past it into the search window of Google, Yahoo, MSN or any of the other search engines and you will find it listed. To be more direct just copy and past it into a newly opened window in IE or FireFox and it will take you there.
The only part of this site that you can consider as "somewhat" private is the email but even that is probably saved somewhere. I never think that anything I do, say, or see on the web is safe from being found out either by searching or following the user tracks that exist.
So in the end the greatest reason for our having any privacy on the net is because few people have any reason to search us out. It's privacy by lack of interest not by design. It's the very reason that those of us who work with the web (or net if you prefer) complain so hard about tracking cookies and malware is that it's a true invasion of privacy of a most personal nature.
So remember that what we do is open to all if they want to look for it.
Thanks Frank, some good info... I actually had never even thought about it before. I discovered it when I was talking to someone with a very unusual screen name and I thought it might mean something in another language so I googled it and found lots of info, then googled my own screen name and was shocked!
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