Stalking is so much easier with the internet-
I actually wrote this comment out in response to someone's post, but hell. Why spam them when I can just put it in my own LJ:
I don't have a facebook or a twitter. I don't have plurk. If I didn't have g-mail, I wouldn't even have a youtube account. Don't want to have anything to do with those twitch-reflex sites. LJ is bad enough sometimes. I don't even like taking pictures, much less posting them up on the internet. I tell my friends where I'm going or where I am because I trust they aren't going to break into my house when I leave for a few hours/days. But I don't make this public to the internet at large.
I can't stand this whole 'inter-connectivity' thing going on. It's the major downside for me in technology growing so fast. I don't want everyone to find me via my e-mail, AIM, or any other shit like that. I want my online stuff separate from RL. The fact employers look online to snoop around your business before they even hire you is invasive. You can't even chew the fat or make mistakes anymore. Youthful indiscretions that weren't even THAT serious 10 years ago, no FIVE years ago, aren't ever going to go away and you have to pay for it for the rest of your life every time someone Googles your name. It's like 'anon never forgets' jumped into the real world. I just don't see why people my age and younger [and some older] don't see why putting every. little. thing out there is harmful. Not until their house gets broken into anyway.
It used to take effort to stalk people. B| I miss those days.
I don't have a facebook or a twitter. I don't have plurk. If I didn't have g-mail, I wouldn't even have a youtube account. Don't want to have anything to do with those twitch-reflex sites. LJ is bad enough sometimes. I don't even like taking pictures, much less posting them up on the internet. I tell my friends where I'm going or where I am because I trust they aren't going to break into my house when I leave for a few hours/days. But I don't make this public to the internet at large.
I can't stand this whole 'inter-connectivity' thing going on. It's the major downside for me in technology growing so fast. I don't want everyone to find me via my e-mail, AIM, or any other shit like that. I want my online stuff separate from RL. The fact employers look online to snoop around your business before they even hire you is invasive. You can't even chew the fat or make mistakes anymore. Youthful indiscretions that weren't even THAT serious 10 years ago, no FIVE years ago, aren't ever going to go away and you have to pay for it for the rest of your life every time someone Googles your name. It's like 'anon never forgets' jumped into the real world. I just don't see why people my age and younger [and some older] don't see why putting every. little. thing out there is harmful. Not until their house gets broken into anyway.
It used to take effort to stalk people. B| I miss those days.