I just loved it when everyone freaked out that Facebook will be sharing information with third parties. For a while, the panic about your online privacy had something to do with Facebook. Now things are changing.
People are getting all wired up because Google is starting to play nice with the authorities, revealing identities and IP`s. It happened to some poor gunrunner schmuck from Belgium, some blog writer from New York, and now to some journalists that published some crap on Wikileaks.
This is funny. People try to hold on to their privacy so tightly on the internet. I think they’re missing the point.
Google and Facebook already know everything about you! Why? Because you told them. Every context-aware ad, link you click, every message you send to a buddy, your spelling habits, your math skills, whether you had sex last night, your full name, your ailments, what you ate this morning. These guys store it all.
Point A: so what? What does that say about you? Who cares about all that info? It’s all worthless. Nobody gives a damn.
Point B: if the authorities are after you, you probably did some shit. If it’s bad shit, fuck you! You deserve it. If it’s some vigilante or hardcore journalism stuff, that’s appreciated. The problem is you knew what kind of shit-storm you were getting yourself into.
I have my full address and my mobile phone listed on Facebook and Google. Not one person has bothered me.
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Well, I guess it’s just that I am a paranoid-privacy-freak, especially since I started having more and more readers to my blog. But the rest: Facebook, Google, whoever, I don’t really care, as long as the ones reading my blog, and I have some stalkers and fans, don’t know my true identity, not that it would matter anyway if they found out what’s my real name or what I really look like. I just get freaked out by the fact that someday, when I will be working as a doctor, some patient or person that I come in contact at the hospital will come to me and say: “oh, you were the one that said that she hated men more than cockroaches”, which is true, but that doesn’t involve my proffesional life, an there are some people who don’t understand that. That’s why I tend to keep it private.
Eu nici macar nu mi-am dat numarul de telefon unui tip care ma hartuieste! Dar mai daca mi-as da numarul de telefon sau id-ul la liber…
Te-ai uitat pe la setarile din messenger. Ai vazut ce lista lunga ignore am?
Oare de ce?
Anda, there are some videos and photos of me because of which I could never go into politics. So I can relate to the “people finding out” part.
But say you’re working as a doctor, and a dude recognizes you. He knows you hate men, and he knows that, since you’re his doctor, you can decide how well he’ll be living the rest of his life. That’s some form of respect
Camelia, some people just dial random numbers. As for your Yahoo! ignore list, you should see my Skype ignore list. Spammers be everywhere, I tell ya.
Well this, and “be nice to me, I might be your doctor some day” can get me some form of respect
Putting these jokes aside, I don’t discriminate people by gender when I’m [I will be] at work, that’s not the point. This is why I don’t like putting tags on people, because I don’t like to be tagged myself as a “man hater” just from the post on my blog
My patients are [will be] all asexual beings, to begin with
That’s why I like to keep my identity private. But then again, I’m not that famous to begin with
Anda, somehow, doctors treating men and women as if they were asexual does not sound like a good idea
In all seriousness, though, as long as you get your message across properly, nobody get the impression that you discriminate against men. Or at least not in favor of women, but … cockroaches (gotta love that name, by the way)
Still, I never would have guesses this was such a big issue for you.
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