scott wrote:
>> Walk up to a random forum on the Internet and say "hi", and suddenly 
>> people potentially know quite a lot about you. o_O
> 
> In a way, yes, but people still need to do some work to find out that 
> stuff, and most people avoid putting their actual home address on forums 
> and social networking sites.

Yeah. I did some preliminary research, and it seems that various Google 
searches will tell you my real identity and who I actually work for, but 
there's nothing anywhere that says where I live. (Thank God!) Even so... 
pretty disturbing, eh?

(Mind you, the expressed *purpose* of LinkedIn is to let people find 
you, so I guess it's not so surprising that it lets people find you.)

> In Real Life you can always just follow the person until you get to 
> their house :-)

In Real Life you can tell when somebody is following you. ;-)

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