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This thread sounds maybe somewhat strange but anyway it's something that can be interested ....

I start this thread because I've read the news that account information of clients of a certain bank was published on the internet. (via hacking)

This is unpleasant if it's your account of course. (it was not mine :) )

So... everybody wants a kind of privacy ... I guess you don't want that your neigbour knows that you are buying this or that, drinking this kind of beer/wine, what you're thinking about some people, ....

So I'm interested why people on GL are posting a part of their whole life (emotional, economic, political, ...) in fact for the whole world ?
For the whole world, because everybody can register on GL. There is no control.
Can you imagine that your employer is reading your postings ? What about political parties ? Insurance companies ? Don't you think they are sometimes interested in our postings ?

What do you think about this ? Are you not afraid about 'Big brother is watching you' ?

You can discuss guys ... :)
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Steve Jones

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Well, in my case I wouldn't write anything I wouldn't want everyone to know. I certainly haven't written every single thing about myself and there's lots of stuff I wouldn't want people to know.

As for employers observing you, I'm lucky in the sense that I don't have one.

I'm occasionally intrigued by what an employer's reaction might be when he/she discovers that his/her employee belongs to the Sex Dog/ Flirt/ S & M is Cool/ I Like SEX!!! and groups like this...

I am reliably informed that in Britain, employers check out potential employees on Facebook to see if they're "suitable" or notSteve Jones edytował(a) ten post dnia 21.07.08 o godzinie 08:21
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Ditto, Steve. My boss knows all about my private life, too ;)
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Ilter K.

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I don't have a boss and probably will never have in the future.
Even if I'd have one, noone would care what I have written in anywhere, because I am in the entertainment business, or I am faking an artist. Artists are considered as 'partly lunatics' anyway.
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Guy Cautaerts:
Insurance companies ? Don't you think they are sometimes interested in our postings ?
So which insurance company are working for, Guy? :)
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It would be better if we all posted under 'handles' as in most discussion boards.

It's easy to become Guy C if you so choose, and leave all your personal details secret.
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I also wonder what employers think about some of the photos on display!! Some of them are hardly professional and in some cases extremely amusing for all the wrong reasons.

I have toyed with the idea of starting a thread called: what do you think of this photo? But felt this would be highly unfair laughing at peoples photos behind their backs. So I didnt bother. However, there is much amusement to be had!
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I think a lot of people still feel that whatever they post online (not limited to GL) is more or less private and consolidated solemnly to that site and people registered on it. In reality nothing online is private, no matter how secure of a site it may be, there are always moderators, site owners, server owners who have access to all the information disclosed. Your online security depends on various pieces of software and hardware, but in the end it is up to each individual running any particular server to keep it secure. You are basically putting trust in hands of an unknown person... that alone should make anyone think twice before putting anything out there.
Sometimes I wonder myself about what people's reaction is to certain things that I put out there... but than again... it's a free world and everyone is entitled to their opinions, if someone doesn't want to hire me due to my personal opinions, I most likely wouldn't want to work for them to begin with.
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I found this article about "Facebook founder loses court battle to keep personal data offline" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03/zuckerberg_files/

We may say that Facebook and GL are of the same kind of social networking site.
In the US and also in Belgium (probably also other countries), information on social networking sites can be used in court cases.

So every information you want to deal, can be used afterwards against you. :)
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Alicja Efejska

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Guy C.:
I found this article about "Facebook founder loses court battle to keep personal data offline" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03/zuckerberg_files/

We may say that Facebook and GL are of the same kind of social networking site.
In the US and also in Belgium (probably also other countries), information on social networking sites can be used in court cases.

So every information you want to deal, can be used afterwards against you. :)

... but it's so obvious Guy! It's childish to hope it could be otherwise!
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Guy C.:
So I'm interested why people on GL are posting a part of their whole life (emotional, economic, political, ...) in fact for the whole world ?

They do it for different reasons.. I think one could write a book about this. One of the reasons is certainly when they are looking for a new job or challenge. Here one little interesting story that was discussed on GL. Urban legend says that poeple actually lost jobs because they were exposing themselves on GL in such way that their bosses thought they were not loyal anymore.
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Tatiana S.:
Ditto, Steve. My boss knows all about my private life, too ;)
is your boss also your husband ? :)
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Lidia K.:
Guy Cautaerts:
Insurance companies ? Don't you think they are sometimes interested in our postings ?
So which insurance company are working for, Guy? :)
in a normal company ... like all the others: they like that you pay but if they have to pay you ... :)
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FYI - if you want some statistics for GL
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/gold...
(I know this is not difficult - near every site has such kind of statistics)
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