Another thread reminded me of this, and I mentioned it there, but though that way more people would see it if I started a new thread.
As most of us know you can find anything on the Internet. You can google someones email address, name, or handle and sometimes find VERY personal information. In one instance that I know of a man found an old girlfriend that he was trying to get back in touch with by doing this and found some photos that she had posted online. One was of her cat. He saved the photo, zoomed in on the dangling ID tag and PRESTO. He had her current address and phone number. As far as I know he never did anything other than make a few harassing phone calls and send letters.
The same goes for what we post here, on our blogs, reviews that we write, online photo albums, MySpace, etc... Too much personal information is never a good thing.
Let's just all be safe about what we put out there in cyberspace for others to happen upon. We never know who from our past is looking for it.
As most of us know you can find anything on the Internet. You can google someones email address, name, or handle and sometimes find VERY personal information. In one instance that I know of a man found an old girlfriend that he was trying to get back in touch with by doing this and found some photos that she had posted online. One was of her cat. He saved the photo, zoomed in on the dangling ID tag and PRESTO. He had her current address and phone number. As far as I know he never did anything other than make a few harassing phone calls and send letters.
The same goes for what we post here, on our blogs, reviews that we write, online photo albums, MySpace, etc... Too much personal information is never a good thing.
Let's just all be safe about what we put out there in cyberspace for others to happen upon. We never know who from our past is looking for it.