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I got a call at 6 in the morning from one of my best friends. We're from California. She has a good friend who now lives in Ohio that she's kept in touch with by phone and through some webcam site called stickam or something.
Anyway, apparently a mutual friend was chatting with him on that website, then saw him pass out (he was probably drunk) on cam. That person then saw smoke filling the screen, then the webcam cut out. That person didn't have any of his contact info outside of the website, so contacted my friend, who then contacted me, whilst freaking out (woke me up too...T_T).
So...for the last hour, we've been scouring the internet for a way to contact his relatives (he has parents, a sister and a brother). The amount of information I was able to pull up just from google searches, then searching directories and whatnot through the internet is fucking scary.
I don't know this guy personally...I've only heard about him through my friend.
Just based off of the guy's address, name, and first names of his family, I now know the ages of all of his family members, what high schools and colleges they went to, the city they live in, the street address of their home, and based off of their myspace pages I was able to pull up, I even know the brother's major and some of the hobbies and interests that the dad and brother have.
What...the...fuck. I totally feel like I've crossed every privacy/anonymity line possible while being a separate state from them.
I'm sure the police would have gotten to contacting them eventually (a call to the local police told us that the fire department was handling the situation), but my friend was very worried...and so we tried to contact them ourselves. She's talked to the brother before, so it's not all bad, I guess.
But god...the internet is fucking scary.
 
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It's their own fault. The internet is only as scary as you make it, and only knows as much about you as you allow it to.
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Me being able to find out anything about people versus people can't find out stuff about me..
A hard choice honestly I would probably choose the first.
http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/st_infoporn_1607
Never mind Web 3.0: The next stage in technological evolution is a single worldwide computer. Collectively, we are already assembling this megacomputer from our billions of Net-connected PCs, cell phones, PDAs, and the like. As an increasing number and variety of devices are lashed to one another via the Internet and other communication systems, they form the components of what we might call the One Machine.
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The internet is scared of Google.
Anyways yea I don't have no myspace/facebook just for the fact I don't want nothing to be pulled up under my name. And wtf this One Machine might be sponsered by google before we know it.
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This is why I don't use social networking sites, and go out of my way to google myself every once in a while to make sure nothing is up there that can ID me.
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Yeah, I just went around googling my name. My name is so fucking common...there's even a Korean Catholic cardinal by my name. There's also a lawyer, an anesthesiologist, shit, even like people in my own city that share my name. lol.
This is fun. I need sleep.
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United States24762 Posts
It isn't always your fault when the internet has your info ._.
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On May 05 2009 00:08 Plutonium wrote:
This is why I don't use social networking sites, and go out of my way to google myself every once in a while to make sure nothing is up there that can ID me.
why what are you wanted for
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On May 05 2009 00:42 Frits wrote:Show nested quote +On May 05 2009 00:08 Plutonium wrote:
This is why I don't use social networking sites, and go out of my way to google myself every once in a while to make sure nothing is up there that can ID me. why what are you wanted for
You never heard any of the horror stories about going for a job and having facebook pics come up? Hell, even if you don't put anything stupid up, you've still got idiot friends writing stuff, etc etc....
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On May 05 2009 00:08 Plutonium wrote:
This is why I don't use social networking sites, and go out of my way to google myself every once in a while to make sure nothing is up there that can ID me. Same. When people google my name all they find is some french sculptor, and if they google my nickname they just find out that I registered on the daemon tools forums about 8 months ago, on which I have 0 posts on.
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United States17042 Posts
I bet that an IP wouldn't help much if he's in a huge building, and you usually would need to ask the ISP to figure out where the actually address is that's linked to the ip.
I hope it all worked out.
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On May 04 2009 23:36 Adeny wrote:
It's their own fault. The internet is only as scary as you make it, and only knows as much about you as you allow it to.
Hahaha. This is not entirely true. My mom grandma girlfriend police my job or anyone else can post all they like about me.Besides it's really not that hard to break into a minimally secured database and get information(take a random website for example.) But Yeah the OP is right. I tried to find all the info on myself once and I got My name address(scary enough) phone number email age old school and what i was doing a few years ago on a weekend.(Freak email that someone posted.)
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Always be ready for a van full of ninjas to bust out and attack you. Mortal combat is always a second away, be prepared.
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dudes..... if you post ur own info in the internet, others can read it. so easy.....
ur own choice
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No, it's not that simple. I only got superficial info (like interests and hobbies) from their myspace pages. The other info (age, address, school info, etc) I got off of online white pages and other random online databases. A lot of them were rather obscure, and they obviously got the info from already public records. Online background-check websites also have this kind of information.
I have no idea how those ppl get this kind of information.
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k wait so what happened to the guy who passed out?
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United States24762 Posts
Didn't have time to type this before, but I've gotta say being a teacher sucks in this day and age with student stalkers. Hell, I've heard of teachers getting fired for fabricated online identies lol. Luckily I'm computer savvy enough I wouldn't be likely to fall into that kind of trap, but still.
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