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> 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.
In Real Life you can always just follow the person until you get to their
house :-)
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> Easy detective work, isn't it :-)
Hello Senior Engineer, how are you?
>> But I need to pay money to send you an invite. ;-)
>>
>> I'm not actually sure what information you'd need to be able to make
>> contact. Maybe just my real name?
>
> I think I found you, but I came up against the "you need to pay" thing
> as well.
Some profiles let me connect, some don't. Must be one of the various
account settings that you can frob.
> Oh well, might have been useful. Now I wonder if this place
> lets you delete your account?
Account Settings > Personal Information > Close Account
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4a016ea2$1@news.povray.org...
> You're right of course. It's just that being the POV-Ray mascot *is* the
> only real award I have. But yes, at some point I'll have to somehow make
> this look like a real person, not just an excuse for one.
>
> (BTW, how do you know my email address? I didn't think that was public...)
It's in plain view in your profile. I do agree that the interface is utterly
confusing but that's the case of all these social network thingies, it only
makes sense if you hang out there 24/24.
G.
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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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>> (BTW, how do you know my email address? I didn't think that was public...)
>
> It's in plain view in your profile.
Hahahaha... *sigh*
> I do agree that the interface is utterly
> confusing but that's the case of all these social network thingies, it only
> makes sense if you hang out there 24/24.
24 hours a day, 24 days a week?
So *that's* how farming became so efficient! :-D
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>> 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. ;-)
Only if they are not very good at it.
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>> In Real Life you can tell when somebody is following you. ;-)
>
> Only if they are not very good at it.
Ah, you have some experience of doing this then? :-D
Seriously though - how many people are actually good at this?
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> Ah, you have some experience of doing this then? :-D
Hehe maybe :-) A certain society I was involved quite heavily in at
University was based on a game where you get given 3 names at random of
other people in the society, then you have to go and "kill" them. Most of
the time they were people you'd never heard of before, so some detective
work was needed to find them. Of course your name was on the lists of 3
other people - so you had to watch out. Was good fun.
> Seriously though - how many people are actually good at this?
There was one guy who managed to take out half the society (you get given a
replacement name every time you kill someone, so you always have 3 people to
go after until the end) and yet nobody I spoke to knew what he looked
like...
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scott wrote:
>> Ah, you have some experience of doing this then? :-D
>
> Hehe maybe :-) A certain society I was involved quite heavily in at
> University was based on a game where you get given 3 names at random of
> other people in the society, then you have to go and "kill" them. Most
> of the time they were people you'd never heard of before, so some
> detective work was needed to find them. Of course your name was on the
> lists of 3 other people - so you had to watch out. Was good fun.
Are you kidding me? That sounds insane! o_O
>> Seriously though - how many people are actually good at this?
>
> There was one guy who managed to take out half the society (you get
> given a replacement name every time you kill someone, so you always have
> 3 people to go after until the end) and yet nobody I spoke to knew what
> he looked like...
There's always one...
(Or is that "in the end, there can be only one"?)
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> Are you kidding me? That sounds insane! o_O
Warning - severe nerd/geek alert:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/assassins/
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