this has become a bit of a hobby for me
The Guide to Not Getting Yourself Caught Doing Nefarious Things Online, because apparently it's not all common sense.
1. do not use the same screen name for everything. it is fine to be teddiburr73 on both your baseball fan forum and your amazon.com register, but not for your adultfriendfinder. teddiburr75, tediburr73, teddibear, and teddybear73 will also not cut it.
2. do not use the same password for anything. do not set your name, your school, you significant other's name, your hometown, your address, or your favorite hobby for your password. for the love of god, do not let your password be "password."
3. do not try to be clever getting around rules 1 and 2 by substituting numbers for letters and vice versa. you aren't.
4. do not think that going to great lengths to hide one piece of identifying information will remain effective if you go ahead and spill everything else. if we know you are 49 and live on redding road and work for United Pipeworks, your name isn't "BrewBoy," it's Ted James Jones. Likewise, if readers can figure out that you recently graduated from rollins college in winter park, fl with a theatre degree, your name isn't "Elinor Chambery," it's...emily.
5. do not try to be clever by linking your incriminating blog to your public blog by another name. it does not take much to figure out that the writers behind "Unknotting Knitting" and "What I Shoved Up My Ass This Weekend" are one and the same.
6. if your real name is john o'brian, one of your email contacts should not be jose o'brian. there is no one who is legitimately called "jose o'brian." if you are victoria browning, you do not actually know anyone named victoria blacking. if you are tim wiggins, your alias should not be tom wiggs.
7. security questions like "what town did you grow up in?" are not security questions if you still live in the same town.
8. do not post the same personal ad in more than one city. if nothing else, it only proves that the women in your own city now know not to send naked pictures to you. i could do a whole other guide on how to not get yourself caught being stupid on craigslist.
9. try to be born with a good, generic last name, like smith.
1. do not use the same screen name for everything. it is fine to be teddiburr73 on both your baseball fan forum and your amazon.com register, but not for your adultfriendfinder. teddiburr75, tediburr73, teddibear, and teddybear73 will also not cut it.
2. do not use the same password for anything. do not set your name, your school, you significant other's name, your hometown, your address, or your favorite hobby for your password. for the love of god, do not let your password be "password."
3. do not try to be clever getting around rules 1 and 2 by substituting numbers for letters and vice versa. you aren't.
4. do not think that going to great lengths to hide one piece of identifying information will remain effective if you go ahead and spill everything else. if we know you are 49 and live on redding road and work for United Pipeworks, your name isn't "BrewBoy," it's Ted James Jones. Likewise, if readers can figure out that you recently graduated from rollins college in winter park, fl with a theatre degree, your name isn't "Elinor Chambery," it's...emily.
5. do not try to be clever by linking your incriminating blog to your public blog by another name. it does not take much to figure out that the writers behind "Unknotting Knitting" and "What I Shoved Up My Ass This Weekend" are one and the same.
6. if your real name is john o'brian, one of your email contacts should not be jose o'brian. there is no one who is legitimately called "jose o'brian." if you are victoria browning, you do not actually know anyone named victoria blacking. if you are tim wiggins, your alias should not be tom wiggs.
7. security questions like "what town did you grow up in?" are not security questions if you still live in the same town.
8. do not post the same personal ad in more than one city. if nothing else, it only proves that the women in your own city now know not to send naked pictures to you. i could do a whole other guide on how to not get yourself caught being stupid on craigslist.
9. try to be born with a good, generic last name, like smith.