The meme that pushed me overboard
Posted on 31. Jan, 2007 by dimaks in Entertainment, Life
I just got prompted by a friend about my entry on the birth calculator and stuff, which I think I forcefully led to a meme of sort and tagged people around. Fun overtook me. Since the sites I referred are taking some vital information about individuals, and considering the danger of getting infringed of further personal information that one may opt not to disclose, I am hereby heeding a heads up. So I decided to advise you guys to just ignore my meme. And I am sorry for dragging you on to a potential threat. Apologies.
I’ve actually found a contact with the sites author Mr. Paul R. Sadowski and am now waiting for his kind reply about the inquiry I sent him.
Now I am wondering how are we supposed to go about with our previous or perhaps on-going internet engagements like for example, our online research publications which almost always bear our real names and email addresses. Plus, our account information on the internet sites and other related web avenues which basically collect birth dates. Or we just supply them the wrong ones? Anyway, just a blink of thoughts.
God bless all.
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kathy
Jan 31st, 2007
Hi dimaks. It’s a bit difficult, I guess, on deciding which info to supply and how to avoid getting one’s personal info available for public viewing altogether. Maybe the rule of thumb would be to make sure first of the authority of the institution/person/company that is asking for one’s info. Like scientific publications, for instance. We allow our personal info to be included, because it is called for and we know that they will not use it for any other purpose. But if the other party is dubious, then it may be better to restrain. What do you think?
dimaks
Jan 31st, 2007
@kathy
Point well acknowledged. Thanks. With regards to the proper authority or institution thing, isn’t it that almost always, the personal information we send to the “trusted authorities” were in the end, spread wide open to the general internet users through online postings of research authors and their related subjects? Ahh well, I might just be torn into so many pages of qualms right now. Yeah, life these days have become so vague amidst the advancement in technologies.
Your suggested rule of thumb sounds great to me.
verns
Feb 1st, 2007
jeez..I did not think about this when I answered your meme…hehe
tina
Feb 1st, 2007
You’re scaring me!! but… im not sure if the names and the birthday are of something worth to them…?
if its about identity theft… it sure wont happen.. right? I mean we did not give out.. uhmm.. credit card number our email adds or whatever…
they have little information.. so i guess its ok.
sasha
Feb 1st, 2007
Worst that can happen is they’ll flood your inbox with spam
Okay lang yan, Dimaks! Prerogative naman ng pinasahan mo ng meme yan hehehe
Off topic: I love your posts! Iangat ko na nga link mo to my faves
Keep it up, Dimaks!
dimaks
Feb 1st, 2007
@verns
and too much for being a reckless internet crawling.
neither… anyway, its a lesson learned
dimaks
Feb 1st, 2007
@tina
well, here in japan, name and birthdate are significantly used for retrieving one’s personal information like bank account number or something. The same in the internet world. Did you happen to notice somewhere when you are signing up for an online account? Almost always you are asked to input correct birthdate to retrieve password. But then, yeah, lets hope for good and be careful next time.
dimaks
Feb 1st, 2007
@sasha
Naks! promoted ba ako? Salamat
Shai
Feb 1st, 2007
Aaaww, ginawa ko pa naman kahit di mo tinag
dimaks
Feb 2nd, 2007
@Shai
I’m sorry
Jaypee
Feb 2nd, 2007
I don’t mind doing that meme. I didn’t provide my email address anyways and as for my name and birthdate, it’s all good. They won’t find that much valuable information on me. Hehe
dimaks
Feb 2nd, 2007
@Jaypee
Coolness
Wil
Feb 4th, 2007
When I was broke, I didn’t worry about identity theft because I had no money to be stolen. hehe
Anyway, a lot of famous people’s birthdays and their other personal info like maiden names are well known, so I wouldn’t worry about it. Although you never know, so it’s probably best to keep a low profile about such info.
dimaks
Feb 5th, 2007
@Wil
Yes, perhaps that’s the best defense.