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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scott wrote:

> Warning - severe nerd/geek alert:
> 
> http://www.srcf.ucam.org/assassins/

It's heartening to know that my website isn't the *only* thing on the 
face of the Internet that's still trapped in a timewarp from 1997...

I still think this sounds... absolutely insane. I can't imagine how any 
sane person would think this is a good idea. But there we are.

Tell me, did you play while you were there? :-P

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> It's heartening to know that my website isn't the *only* thing on the face 
> of the Internet that's still trapped in a timewarp from 1997...
>
> I still think this sounds... absolutely insane. I can't imagine how any 
> sane person would think this is a good idea. But there we are.

It was good fun, plus most of those societies at University are just an 
excuse to meet new people and do lots of social events :-)  I have two very 
good friends now that I would have otherwise never met.

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>> I still think this sounds... absolutely insane. I can't imagine how 
>> any sane person would think this is a good idea. But there we are.
> 
> It was good fun, plus most of those societies at University are just an 
> excuse to meet new people and do lots of social events :-)  I have two 
> very good friends now that I would have otherwise never met.

Well maybe. But this particular society seems like a step too far.

(If I *wanted* random strangers to constantly harass me, I'm fairly sure 
I don't need to sign up to an assassins' guild...)

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