I completely agree. In a world where people chirp on about privacy being violated, it seems ironic that people then go and post the sheer detail they do on sites like myspace. Most people don't realise that there is no such thing as anonymity on the internet. That, or they simply don't realise that sites like archive.org exist and that their "harmless" comment might just come back to bite them in the ass when they apply for a job in future. And I know for a fact that people are being turned down for jobs because of what they've posted online. The younger you are, the less you think before you act (on the whole...there are obviously exceptions to this); so it goes without saying that younger people tend to post more detail, detail perhaps that even a modestly skillful predator could use to track them down. People don't realise how potentially dangerous it is to volunteer so much information.
But for me it's no such much the quantity of material, so much as the the quality of material that worries me. To think that these people will one day be voting, running companies, piloting aircraft...well, you get the point.
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I completely agree. In a world where people chirp on about privacy being violated, it seems ironic that people then go and post the sheer detail they do on sites like myspace. Most people don't realise that there is no such thing as anonymity on the internet. That, or they simply don't realise that sites like archive.org exist and that their "harmless" comment might just come back to bite them in the ass when they apply for a job in future. And I know for a fact that people are being turned down for jobs because of what they've posted online. The younger you are, the less you think before you act (on the whole...there are obviously exceptions to this); so it goes without saying that younger people tend to post more detail, detail perhaps that even a modestly skillful predator could use to track them down. People don't realise how potentially dangerous it is to volunteer so much information.
But for me it's no such much the quantity of material, so much as the the quality of material that worries me. To think that these people will one day be voting, running companies, piloting aircraft...well, you get the point.