Quote:To think that one can hide oneself efficiently behind a pseudo is what is truly naive, IMO.
Agreed, but, as Jojo indicated, that isn't the point. The point is that coupling personal information with one's legal name online is unwise. It's equally unwise to make discovering one's actual identity easier than it is.
Anyway, I am just offering some friendly unsolicited advice, which others can take or leave, as they choose. It doesn't matter to me. Indeed, I recall reading one article in which the person suggested that we should all be unafraid of revealing our intimate selves to the entire world via our message board postings, Facebook and Myspace profiles, and the like. This person even suggested that employers might find it odd to do a Google search and
not find enough online traces of their present or prospective employees. I think that this view is utterly daft, myself, but then, a few exceptions aside, I am not exactly noted for being attuned to the modern world.
(And by the way, it is possible to make oneself nearly impossible to trace online if one uses a
good anonymizing system).
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 15 Feb 09 | 03:50PM by Kyberean.